Posted on 08/13/2016 7:42:03 AM PDT by libstripper
Since it swept the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prizes and sold in a stunning $17.5 million worldwide rights deal to Fox Searchlight at January’s Sundance Film Festival, Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation has been considered a front-runner film in the Oscar race.
A brewing controversy threatens to challenge the trajectory of that inspiring narrative. Memories of 17-year-old rape charges waged against both Parker and Jean McGianni Celestin (who shares co-story credit with Parker) while they were roommates at Penn State in 1999 left Fox Searchlight in full crisis mode these past weeks, scrambling to figure out how best to protect its sizable investment and Oscar chances by getting in front of a disclosure that is bubbling up in the mainstream press. The transcripts of the trial are public record and readily available, as Deadline discovered — the clerk there offered that numerous inquiries have been made recently — and the play-by-play is a sordid he-said-she-said affair that pitted a female student against Parker and Celestin. She claimed both men had sex with her after she had passed out in their room following a night of drinking. They claimed the encounter was consensual. Traumatized, she subsequently dropped out of college, and attempted suicide, per court documents. Parker, who had an earlier mutually willing sexual encounter with the student, was acquitted of the charges. Celestin initially was convicted, but that was overturned on appeal and his case was not retried.
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Actually the Arabs were very big in the slave trade, on a much greater scale than Europeans (and continue to engage in it to this day). For some reason I just can't fathom, this is not taught.
Watching Roots, you would think that Africans were happily playing on the beach until Pa Walton showed up. Geordi hadn't gone blind yet either.
Historically accurate: The Prostrate State
1) A fair handed book. Enough corruption from carpet baggers, blacks and white locals to share. Again, for me speaks to the nature of man, we are all corrupt unless restrained by God.
2) Did South Carolina ever pay off the massive debt?
3) Interesting to see the educational books being advertised at the end of the book. There was a lot of self education going on back then.
4) The parallels with todays society are amazing. But maybe the temp solution back then was that after awhile the federal govt got out of the way and the locals worked it out? Some problems never get solved, they just increase and decrease for awhile.
5) An easy read, writing skills were so much better back then. I think this deserves a second look and I would encourage others to take at least one look. Pick a chapter.
Oft repeated, “The bottom rail is now on top.” The freedmen wanted revenge (and the carpetbaggers promised it, along with their former owner’s property. In the meantime robbing the State blind. This was repeated in several of the Southern States after the war.
The South was so severely F’ed over, no Republicans were elected for a hundred years.
looking at those land sale prices to the state to allocate to the freedman, some of the locals were also in on the action. But they probably had to pay a bribe to the black politician.
The South was so severely F’ed over, no Republicans were elected for a hundred years.
Those locals were the scalawags.
His rape victim killed herself in 2012...her brother has come forward
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