Burns goes back to documentary after protests

Burns is not technically "amending" his film. The pieces he's going to shoot with Hispanic people will serve as bookends between breaks in the series. I think it's craven of PBS and overly decent of Burns to agree to this quasi-blackmail, but Burns has admirably found a way to do it without disrupting the integrity of his series.

P.S. -- Will there be gay soldiers interviewed? Hmm...I thought not. Only the "acceptable" groups with the loudest voices. Which is why things like this should be above identity politics.

What about the contributions of left handed people? Are redheads being slighted? How about the heroic soldiers from all of the Springfields in the US? Surely, they deserve being singled out.

Burns partially brought this on himself. As much as I enjoyed his docs on the Civil War and baseball, he seems to work from a checklist of groups he must mention in every episode. I realize women played baseball but .... come on.

So, can we look forward to added material for every ethnicity that had a hand in that conflict? Did the original give special attention to any groups that prompted whining from Latino identity activists? Seeing as this was regarded as a nearly global conflict, we're looking at a documentary stretching out longer than the war itself.

Yes its very important to segregate history by race. Very conducive to the goal of a color blind society, right up there with our racial history months and racial chapters in our history textbooks.