Posted on 05/29/2019 2:03:08 PM PDT by robowombat
Jim Crow....in Albany NY?
Good article.
In that day and time it was nation wide, a good man was not treated properly
Never mind, I know why.
Half way through the aricle I said, “this is a MOH soldier. Yes! Don’t be surprised if President Trump doesn’t make it right.
Senator Charles Schumer of New York is a man not worthy of being treated civily..
Many a good man was not treated properly giving rise to that old reminder-—The good a man does is buried with him....
The game “Battlefield 1” features a Hellfighter on the cover. It inspired me to learn more.
And to think the Commander In Chief at that time though guys like this were sub-human.
I like this guy! Fights with grenades and bullets than hand to hand with the butt of his rifle 'til that broke from smashing too many German skulls so he switched to a knife fight, and then says it's the same as a scared rabbit would do. Man!
Added word for accuracy.
Which is why Wilson tops my list of Worst President, ever. He set race relations back decades.
It is hard to grasp the racism of that time. I’ve served with different races. I can guarantee we all bleed red and when the chips are down color don’t mean crap. In a battle we are all brothers. Wish it were so everywhere. Just saying.
Thanks for that KKK Advertisement...
That's all it was...
It had nothing to do with "Birth" of anything except hate
THAT'S the key missing element in America today.
There's a down home attitude that comes through in everyday language that just says what you mean, and it's a lot in a few words.
The speaker stares blankly ... "What? .. What'd I say?"
And the hearer is wiser for it.
Sam Clemons, Will Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Jeff Foxworthy .......
That's why we're drawn to Trump .... not that he speaks down home, but that he sounds a lot like we're in junior high.
A rabbit would have done THAT.
Just as long as he wasn't hanging around in either country in 1940.
This article is about the 1915 silent film. For other uses, see The Birth of a Nation (disambiguation).
The Birth of a Nation (originally called The Clansman) is a 1915 American silent epic drama film directed and co-produced by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish. The screenplay is adapted from the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon Jr., as well as Dixon's novel The Leopard's Spots. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay with Frank E. Woods, and co-produced the film with Harry Aitken. It was released on February 8, 1915.
The Birth of a Nation is a landmark of film history.[5][6] It was the first 12-reel film ever made and, at three hours, also the longest up to that point.[7] Its plot, part fiction and part history, chronicling the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by John Wilkes Booth and the relationship of two families in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras over the course of several years—the pro-Union (Northern) Stonemans and the pro-Confederacy (Southern) Camerons—was by far the most complex of any movie made up to that date. It was originally presented in two parts separated by another movie innovation, an intermission, and it was the first to have a musical score for an orchestra. It pioneered close-ups, fade-outs, and a carefully-staged battle sequence with hundreds of extras (another first) made to look like thousands.[8] It came with a 13-page "Souvenir Program".[9] It was the first American motion picture to be screened in the White House, viewed there by President Woodrow Wilson.[10]
The film was controversial even before its release and has remained so ever since; it has been called "the most controversial film ever made in the United States".[11]:198 Lincoln, who Dixon saw as a Southerner,[12] was portrayed positively, unusual in a "Lost Cause" environment. But it portrayed black men (many played by white actors in blackface) as unintelligent and sexually aggressive towards white women. It presented the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) as a heroic force.[13][14] There were widespread black protests against The Birth of a Nation, such as in Boston, while thousands of white Bostonians flocked to see the film.[15] The NAACP spearheaded an unsuccessful campaign to ban the film.[15] Griffith's indignation at efforts to censor or ban the film motivated him to produce Intolerance the following year.[16]
It was a huge commercial success and became highly influential, to the point of reinventing the medium. The film's release has also been acknowledged as an inspiration for the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan only months later. In 1992, the Library of Congress deemed the film "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.
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