Thanks LCS.
For those of you who are curious about this relic but don’t have a boob-tube, you can view it here: http://www.archive.org/details/dw_griffith_birth_of_a_nation
I just checked the link and it’s still good.
The scene with the black legislators is most offensive, especially when they were voting on the white black intermarriage bill, with all the black legislators staring lustfully at the white women.