Re-Birth of a Nation?

[JustAnotherGen]

2. And Silas Lynch

Can't exist if miscegenation is not allowed.

I watched this as part of my Art and History of Film class back in 1992. I was a Mass Comm and Poli Sci Major. At the same time, I was reading Con Law and History 104 - Course started with Reconstruction.

I'll never forget the slack jawed look of my mostly caucasian fellow Mass Comm class mates when Professor H brought up the lights. She said - write down three sentences of your initial reaction and bring them to Wednesday evenings class.

All of us - including me - agreed first and foremost - What awesome special effects. Amazing what he did with so little for a bunch of college kids who grew up on Star Wars films.


Then - the general reaction was - The content was horrible.

And I'll always remember my class mate from just north of Toronto stating: "Silas was a child a of the plantation and the product of a rape. Do the math."

Just my musings and memory of Birth of A Nation - and isn't it ironic? How the Right 'paints' President Obama as being just like him? Though their very existence began from two entirely different space/places and 'times'.