Know your history

Rating: Null/10 (5 December 2003)

Many people seem to ignore the fact that this film is a mirror of America. D.W. Griffith was George Washington.
President Washington forced slaves to build the White House...yet I see no one running to tear it down. (Yes, I do realize it's not the same one, I'm sparing technicalities here) Despite his personal views D.W. Griffith created modern film with Birth of a Nation, just as our first president created America. It's not the content of the film that's important, it's the execution of it, and what has become from the foundation it laid. Just as America was built on hate and racism, and has now become a free, racially equal nation (Once again sparing the fact that racism does still exist in large numbers, we have, for the most part, come leaps and bounds in equality since the late 1700's).
So before you get on your political horse and tear the content of this film apart, shouldn't you first be burning $1, $5, and $20 bills that depict racist presidents as the heroes of our nation? No, you pass your money along gladly, because you see the triumph of a free nation, not the slavery that built it.