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Those who don't see this point should think about Birth of a Nation--no matter how one may object to the ideas expressed in the film, the formal (artistic) skill with which it is made has the audience rooting for the Ku Klux Klan to come to the rescue. Try as you will to resist, you cannot help but cheer them on. The principle at work in Birth of a Nation works just as well in Sorrow and Pity...
...endurable in reverse proportion to their currency, so I'll try to make my one point briefly. When each of you was at The Crimson I'm sure that there was a theme that you talked about when you were sitting about in the offices, the Ku Klux Klan, or the wars, or the Ibis. For us it was the end of the world, (laughter). One illustration we always took to prove this general theory was the tremendous telescoping of time, how our brothers and sisters who were in high school we could hardly recognize; when they came to college...
...KIND OF life into which Malcolm was born is depicted by film-library footage of Southern plantations and Ku Klux Klan meetings while the narrator, James Earl Jones, repeats the first paragraph from Malcolm's autobiography...
When my mother was pregnant with me, she told me later, a party of hooded Ku Klux Klan riders galloped up to our home in Omaha. Nebraska, one night. Surrounding the house, brandishing their shotguns and rifles, they shouted for my father to come out. The Klansmen shouted threats and warnings at her that we better get out of town because "the good Christian white people" were not going to stand for my father's "spreading trouble" among the "good" Negroes of Omaha with the "back to Africa" preachings of Marcus Garvey...
...similar but more scholarly views of Psychologists Richard Herrnstein at Harvard and Arthur Jensen at Berkeley). Graffiti on Stanford walls have urged, "Sterilize Shockley." He has been burned in effigy. On two occasions his classes were broken up by hostile students, some flaunting the sheets of the Ku Klux Klan...