Posted on 08/26/2016 7:11:07 AM PDT by C19fan
They did not teach us about Nat Turner at the nearly all-white public schools I attended. Nor at the nearly all-black ones I went to. While our lessons, especially and almost solely during Black History Month, were festooned with images and chronicles of nonviolent freedom fighters, there was little if anything about the slave rebellion led by Turner that unfolded in Southampton County, Virginia, in 1831.
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Murdering white women and children = Oscar time!
A month before the election and Dems are promoting a race war.
I didn’t know Nero Wolfe has a black attorney!
From Wikipedia:
Nathaniel Parker — Wolfe’s lawyer (and occasionally a client’s lawyer, on Wolfe’s recommendation) when only a lawyer will do. Parker succeeded Henry H. Barber, who played this role earlier in the series. On the way from Henry Barber to Nathaniel Parker, Wolfe consults Henry Parker in chapter 9 of The Golden Spiders. Parker is well educated: for example, Parker converses with Wolfe in French during the story “Immune to Murder”. In the A&E TV series A Nero Wolfe Mystery, Parker was played by Hrant Alianak in “Prisoner’s Base,” and by George Plimpton in “Death of a Doxy” and “Murder is Corny.”
I can easily pass on this. Between the director being a rapist and the subject matter (which will probably incite some BLM-style riots), I don’t want to be near it. I wouldn’t even want to attend a movie that is showing in the same cineplex.
They taught about Nate Turner, this clown just probably didn’t pay attention in school.
you’re right
i’m gonna call my theater and tell them if they show this, i’m not coming back.
And they’ll laugh at me :) But I’ll feel better
And we’re closer to “Death of a Nation” than birth.
The only way to change that is vote Trump in.
When a person, black or white, straight or gay, hangs out in the heart of a major city in bars, he is likely to get shot, stabbed or sick from his activity. Homosexuals die because they engage in risky behavior, it is as simple as that. You rarely get stabbed or shot going to the corner tavern in suburbia. You do if you to into inner city dives where the “alt-left” whackos hang out.
The original Birth of a Nation was in 1915 based on the “Clansman” and the KKK. It was the first movie ever shown in the Whitehouse, President Woodrow Wilson was president at the time and a well known racist (and Democrat)
So is the lefts attempt at rewriting history?
She may not have been paying attention in history class. I recall learning about Nat Turner’s Rebellion in a moderately well integrated 5th grade history class in a Catholic school in Queens. It was in black and white in the our history textbook, which was written for use in Catholic schools in the United States. The textbook itself was actually very well written, and the account of Nat Turner’s Rebellion was handled well, I believe. The impact on the South was that it hardened popular opinion against abolition.
Private and public opinion in the South on the issue of abolition was divided prior to the Civil War. Blood thirsty John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry and Nat Turner’s Rebellion played into the hands of anti-abolition sentiment and probably made the Civil War inevitable. I believe that slavery would have disappeared in the South without the Civil War within a generation. But a generation is a lifetime for the bondsman. Still, on balance, I think the Civil War was an unnecessary and harmful episode.
Is this a liberal re-write of American history?
Of course not. Turner was an ignorant and brutal failure.
I learned about Nat Turner’s Rebellion. No one glorified it and no one damned it in my history classes. It was portrayed, in my time, as a slave rebellion, pure and simple. It also was one of the catalysts of the growing abolition movement.
I have no problem with a movie about Nat Turner’s Rebellion. I’m not sure why he called it “Birth of a Nation.” I guess that’s fitting, in on sense. The original “Birth of a Nation” was used as propaganda by Democrat race-baters. The new “Birth of a Nation” also will be used as propaganda by Democrat race-baters. It just points up that the Democrats are, and always were, the party of race.
Do you think that this movie will point out that almost all of the slave owners who Nat Turner was rebelling against were die-hard Democrats?
my first experience with afro american history month, in second grade in baltimore, 1969, was to do a report on afro american heroes. i chose nat turner. the encyclopedia entry was brief and went something like this...
Nat Turner led a slave revolt in Virginia which resulted in the deaths of 65 people, mostly women and children, while they slept.
i was stunned. my hero did not sound as heroic as i had wanted him to be.
Well Goldie, until you address who your molesters and assaulter’s were you aren’t willing to get off your historical high horse and admit who it was in Africa that generated the slave trade and the gift from God that brought your relatives here ALIVE, to allow you to benefit over time from their sacrifice. You are at least alive unlike the white victim of the one whose film you so eagerly support.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion was featured in all of the history textbooks I taught from. It, of course was a failure. Nat’s plan was to march his army into the Dismal Swamp. He and they never made it. Most of the whites he and his group killed were innocent white women and children. I think the main point of it being in the history books was to show that the slaves did, at least once, try to do something about their condition besides running away. By far more famous was the Harpers Ferry raid, but that, of course, was led by a white man. Then there’s the Civil War which led to the end of slavery, but that also was led by a white man. So, for Black History Month, you’ve got to have a black-led uprising.
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