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Analysis Of D. W. Griffith's Film Birth Of A Nation
The film by D.W. Griffith—“Birth of a Nation” is merely propaganda used to brainwash the young white population of 1915 into denying blacks further freedoms. The film shows blacks in a state superiority over Southern whites which is quite ironic because if up to Southern Whites blacks would still have been their property, so technically no white would have allowed that situation to even come close.
Throughout the film it depicts blacks in a submissive position to which they are abusing their powers, such as the scene of the state legislature portraying black legislature are drunken pigs who’s only interest is intermarriage, every white persons nightmare. It’s a foreshadow of what the nation would be like if blacks were granted positions in

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