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It shows the birth of a nation in a land where racism was rife. What’s most troubling is that 100 years later the racism depicted by Griffith in his epic, while far less egregious today,...
The Birth of a Nation is three hours of racist propaganda — starting with the Civil War and ending with the Ku Klux Klan riding in to save the South from black rule during the...
The movie was also incredibly racist, portraying the noble white South in its fight against Black people (white actors in Blackface), who were portrayed as evil, and presenting the Ku Klux Klan...
‘The Birth of a Nation’: The most racist movie ever made. Its stereotypes have reverberated for a century. By Ed Rampell. March 3, 2015 at 6:30 a.m. EST. Hooded Klansmen catch former...
The film sheds new light on the depressing history of the release of D. W. Griffith’s “The Birth of a Nation”—both a repellent display of racism and the most original work of the...
“The Birth of a Nation” was overtly racist. Its pro-Southern take on the civil war and its aftermath paints African-Americans (played by whites in blackface) as lecherous brutes, and...
But – and it is a big but – The Birth of a Nation also happens to be an egregiously racist piece of work. It is the key film that helped to calcify a set of enduring negative stereotypes...
