It's not to hard to find criticism of Hollywood from the Right (including myself) for fictionalizing historical events and putting a liberal slant on them. But why, oh why, do they need to liberalize liberal stories?

I really enjoyed Glory Road, the story of the 1966 Texas Western (now UT El-Paso) championship college basketball team which was the first to start five black players in the NCAA finals. The story is sort of formulaic and plays right into the hands of what I hope are most poeples' ideas of racial equality and justice.

However, in order to dramatize the racial problems of the time, and the indignities that the UTEP team no doubt suffered, terrifying events were made up out of whole cloth to make the viewer "feel the pain". Not only that, a real East Texas University is unfairly singled-out as the place where the worst racial attack takes place. Neddless to say, their community is upset.

In the movie, the black players come on to the court for a game at East Texas State University (now Texas A&M-Commerce) and are met with insults.

After the game, they find the rooms where they are staying vandalized, with racial slurs smeared in red across the walls.

Dr. McFarland said the incident never happened. In fact, after the movie's release, the university researched and confirmed that East Texas State traveled to El Paso that year, rather than the other way around.

"I felt almost like we were singled out," Dr. McFarland said. "I guess what also bothered me was our school integrated in the '60s without incident. And in fact, on that year when we played them [Texas Western University], we had three black players – that was early in integration."

Is it really necessary to make stuff up to dramatize the evils of that era? How much easier does it make it for racists/bigots to say, "that never happened, it's kikes making stuff up with their friends the n*****s to defame the white race". Stupid, stupid, stupid.