Our club votes from a curated list each month to determine what we'll watch and discuss. I am thinking of proposing a category "Worst Films Ever" and suggesting this one for the list. Kinda doubt the club founder will go for it...
I managed to avoid ever seeing the film when I was young, and now I have plenty reasons not to see it, but its power over US culture should not be underestimated.
Well done! People need to understand how deeply embedded racism is into the fabric of American life. Here's the first motion picture ever, the first "big box office smash", and it denigrates Black people and propagates racism while rewriting history.
Our club votes from a curated list each month to determine what we'll watch and discuss. I am thinking of proposing a category "Worst Films Ever" and suggesting this one for the list. Kinda doubt the club founder will go for it...
I managed to avoid ever seeing the film when I was young, and now I have plenty reasons not to see it, but its power over US culture should not be underestimated.
What a screwed up place we live in...
Well done! People need to understand how deeply embedded racism is into the fabric of American life. Here's the first motion picture ever, the first "big box office smash", and it denigrates Black people and propagates racism while rewriting history.
So malignant racism is merely the instinct of self-preservation, huh? Thanks Woody, that explains everything.