Posted on 07/28/2016 7:13:07 AM PDT by Academiadotorg
Carol Swain, a professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University, is one of the stars of Dinesh D’Souza's new movie, :Hillary’s America," which examined in detail the historical racism of the Democratic Party. It's a story that hasn't been told by reporters from the liberal media who keep repeating the mantra that Democrats represent minorities, the poor, the downtrodden and the vulnerable.
The movie highlights the fact that Democratic President Woodrow Wilson attended a screening of the pro-KKK film, "The Birth of a Nation," in the White House itself.
If you don’t want to believe D’Souza's facts, consider PBS as a source of information on this particular incident:
"On the evening of March 21, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson attended a special screening at the White House of The Birth of a Nation, a film directed by D.W. Griffith and based on The Clansman, a novel written by Wilson’s good friend Thomas Dixon. The film presented a distorted portrait of the South after the Civil War, glorifying the Ku Klux Klan and denigrating blacks."
The film includes reenactments of historical events, including an actor playing Wilson at the screening of the film nodding and smiling in approval.
Professor Swain, a black conservative, is shown with D'Souza going through various historical documents to highlight the racism of the Democratic Party, which was then considered the home of white supremacists. Swain was a member of Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) Religious Liberty Advisory Council during the campaign.
Of course, as the title suggests, it's the modern Democratic Party, under the control of Bill and Hillary Clinton, which is the main subject of the film. In one illuminating part, the origins of the push for "birth control" are traced directly to a campaign to produce a superior white race.
In one reenactment, Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, is shown speaking to a women's auxiliary of the Ku Klux Klan. That's followed by excerpts of a modern-day Hillary speech expressing her admiration for Sanger.
Liberals have tried to play down Sanger's involvement with the KKK, saying she spoke to a variety of different groups. But Sanger's own book, The Pivot of Civilization, included references to eliminating "human weeds" and sterilizing "inferior" races.
Sanger, who died in 1966, was a revolutionary Socialist who was sexually promiscuous and dabbled in the occult. A sympathetic biography said she became "rabidly anti-Catholic as she grew older."
The introduction to the D'Souza film examines Barack Obama's foreign policy legacy, especially in the face of Russian aggression in Europe and the Middle East and the rise of global Islamic terror. D'Souza's previous film was "2016: Obama’s America."
A reenactment in the new film shows Mrs. Clinton as secretary of state watching a video monitor of Benghazi burning and four Americans dying while she does nothing.
One interesting example of shared interests between Obama and Hillary Clinton is shown in their devotion to the ultimate community organizer, Saul Alinsky. Obama was trained by an Alinsky group in Chicago while Hillary wrote her senior thesis on his organizing techniques and met with him. One reenactment shows her actually advising Alinsky, saying radicals should seize control by taking power from within the government, and not just through outside pressure.
Mrs. Clinton's continued relationship with former President Clinton, a notorious womanizer accused of sexual assault and even rape, is seen as a partnership that exists to benefit both of them with money and power. That's brought up to date through an interview with Peter Schweizer, author of Clinton Cash, a book just made into a movie. Both the book and movie examine Clinton financial arrangements and business deals with such regimes as that of Putin's Russia.
Cliff Kincaid is the Director of the AIM Center for Investigative Journalism, and can be contacted at cliff.kincaid@aim.org. This column is excerpted from an article which he wrote for Accuracy in Media.
This is where I depart from conservatives, I guess. Maybe The Birth of a Nation is a racist film (certainly the last hour is) but it is also one of the greatest films produced in America, creating the language of film art. To reduce it to racist junk is anti-intellectual and culturally stupid.
And while I haven’t seen this new film by D’Souza, I will say that while his last film was interesting, it was not a great movie. He is not a natural filmmaker the way the lying Michael Moore is. And therein lies a problem: until the right takes back art and culture, it is going to have a hard time persuading the youth of America.
Flame away.
Not needed. Snooting away speaks for itself. A pernicious message may be embedded in the prettiest art.
You’d be great writing Chinese fortune cookies, you know?
I mean, sorry if this came over unkind... but classic Judeo-Christian style, which is at the heart of Western ideas of conservatism, is not to dazzle with the flashiest effects, but to win the assent of the audience through merit. If flashiness is what won someone, then someone else’s flashiness could win them back.
“He had no stately form or majesty that we should be drawn to him.” Guess who the bible is talking about here.
Sometimes those Chinese fortune cookies can be pretty wise.
We saw the new film the other day and found it quite powerful. While I could nitpick some of the amateurish acting by a few bit players, overall the effect to Hillary and the dem party was devastating.
What choo talkin about Willis??
Jews vote 90% Democrat / Communism.
Jews emigrated AFTER the founding of the US Constitution.
Nope, Constitutional liberty is a Christian phenomenon through and through. Imho
Not all of them. The first Jews in what is now the United States arrived in 1654. Many participated in the American Revolution.
Unfortunately, most of these "old order Sefaradim" were actually very liberal (almost proto-"Reform") and most of them intermarried and disappeared from history.
Correction--I think there were Jews here before 1654, actually. Certainly Asher Levy of New Amsterdam was there before then.
70%. And it’s changing.
90%. You may have mistaken Jews for Blacks.
It’s an irony that the majority of Jewish people (by race not religion) are not classical in this sense.
A whole lot of people calling themselves Christians aren’t classical in this sense either, if it is any consolation.
And while I haven’t seen this new film by D’Souza, I will say that while his last film was interesting, it was not a great movie.
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No “flame” here.
The latest is the same, interesting and somewhat boring at the same time. It might open a few liberal eyes but is truly “old news” for most of us here.
Yes, I know it’s a documentary and not meant to be entertaining.
I have the DVD. This movie has the distinction of being the first full-length, multi reel movie. I love old movies, especially ‘firsts’. First color movie, first talkie, etc., Before this DW Griffith film, everything made was a one reel short. Yes, it is the story of the KKK, but I don’t want to live in a world where we have to throw out every statue, every stained glass window, every painting, because it depicts something someone finds offensive.
Stained glass windows - a perfect comparison! I so fear that we’ll see a banning of this film and GWTW and other movies that chronicle the old south.
Birth of a Nation is considered a pioneering classic by all film scholars. Griffith either created or pioneered long shots, iris shots, night photography, color photography as well as creating a touching drama of a family torn apart by the Civil War. It’s influenced all war movies that were to come.
The movie is only about the KKK in the final hour - the first two are concerned with the antebellum south and the war.
DW Griffith and Wilson were southerners of their time. Wilson was even babysat by none other than Robert E. Lee as a child. So it’s not surprising they would be racist by modern terms.
I haven’t seen D’Souza’s movie so I’ll wait to see what he has to say about this movie in total. It is a great movie - like seeing Brady photos come to life.
But Michael Moore movies - full of lies and deception - are, actually funny. He draws in people with that humor. We just need to get better on our side. And we don’t have to lie to make points!
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