ACF Masters #14 Birth Of A Nation Part 2

Titus & Eric Cook continue our discussion of Griffith's Birth of a nation, we talk about the amazing achievements of the movie & the way they're connected with its damning fault--the strange way in which Progressive pacifism & racism all the way to white supremacy could go together in art. We also talk about the difficulty of giving an account of the Civil War that takes seriously both justice & honor. We've moved on from the old romance that did injustice to blacks to a dark new one that does injustice to everyone starting with Lincoln...