Birth of a Nation

[Ming]

Paiktis truely deserves it... so if you give him a slide, I'll nail him He was the primary offender, and his comment was way over the line...

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Drake Tungsten
Thanks for the support, che.

Hell, I know I deserve it though. Do with me as you will.

Sounds like you got your mind right. Keep it that way, and you can stay out of the box.

[Ming]

*remember to do your paperwork MtG

Now back on topic everybody...

[Elok]

Che's chief ambition in life is to become well known as a Godless Atheistical Commie. That's why he chose his internet name.
Anyway, my film teacher introduced the film to us with the words, "Studying Birth of a Nation is a lot like studying Hitler; it's not pretty, but you have to do it if you want a full appreciation of a subject." And it's a little bit too crazy to be taken seriously, so I had no real problem watching it. If somebody actually thought I believed that black people controlled the old south and used most of that authority to get it on with white women, I would be insulted that they thought so little of my intelligence far more than I would be mortified by any negative perceptions of my morals.

EDIT: In the interest of not getting my butt whooped by already-edgy mods, I would like to stress that I am only ribbing Che. Don't take it seriously. Thank you.

[Drake Tungsten]

Sounds like you got your mind right. Keep it that way, and you can stay out of the box.

Just tell me what to think, boss.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Elok
Che's chief ambition in life is to become well known as a Godless Atheistical Commie. That's why he chose his internet name.

EDIT: In the interest of not getting my butt whooped by already-edgy mods, I would like to stress that I am only ribbing Che. Don't take it seriously. Thank you.

He don't know me very well, do he?

[Ramo]

It was quite amusing watching the KKK run around with plungers on their heads.

[MrFun]

I don't think serious, intelligent convesation is possible anymore in this thread.


sigh

[MichaeltheGreat]

Not with contributions like that.

[MrFun]

I know -- tragic, isn't it?

[Elok]

I'm sorry. Please don't let our lowbrow discussions keep you from enjoying all the enlightened innuendo about Korean cheerleaders and Pennsylvanian women who ask their kids to spank them. I know you have high expectations of the OT.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Elok
I'm sorry. Please don't let our lowbrow discussions keep you from enjoying all the enlightened innuendo about Korean cheerleaders and Pennsylvanian women who ask their kids to spank them. I know you have high expectations of the OT.

[Ned]

I have not seen the film and was taught history of this period in the '50s. The history I was taught is consistent with this film. The KKK was formed to resist Reconstruction, Republicans and to keep blacks in their place. The were the terrorist wing of the Souther Democrat Party.

It was also my understanding that every freed slave did receive 40 acres and a mule.

As to attitudes about blacks in general, the United States of today is remarkably different from the United States from my youth. Remember that even in the military, blacks were segregated. The world began to change for American with Brown v. Board of Education.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Ned
I . . . was taught history of this period in the '50s.

I didn't know you're an older gentlemen, Neddie.

So this just goes to sho that revisionist history isn't necessarily a bad thing. The old history was factually incorrect, so it was revised.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Ned
I have not seen the film and was taught history of this period in the '50s. The history I was taught is consistent with this film. The KKK was formed to resist Reconstruction, Republicans and to keep blacks in their place. The were the terrorist wing of the Souther Democrat Party.

It was also my understanding that every freed slave did receive 40 acres and a mule.

As to attitudes about blacks in general, the United States of today is remarkably different from the United States from my youth. Remember that even in the military, blacks were segregated. The world began to change for American with Brown v. Board of Education.

Very few blacks in fact, received any form of land compensation. There were some plantations and other areas where this was the exception, but even those blacks held title to the land only temporarily.