s governor gary her bevt. Then donald nor cross. Later, hour spotlight on magazines. Well take your calls on the sentencing of former Virginia Governor robert mcdonald. Live starting at 7 00 a. M. Eastern. Today president obama is at a Ford Assembly plant in michigan to talk about jobs and the economy. Live at 4 05 p. M. Eastern on cspan3. This sunday on q a author dick lair talks about the film the birth of a nation. Part two of the movie which is after the war reconstruction is really the heart of the protest in the sense that this is where the blacks are just appalled by the portrayal of freed slaves. And this is a scene showing what happens when you give former slaves the right to vote, the right to be elected the right to govern. Its a scene in the South Carolina legislature where the first and primary order of business is to pass a bill allowing for interracial marriage because again in his hands black men are soley interested in pursuing and having white women. Sunday night at 8
1915 film of the same name. Isnt that a great start . Why the birth of a nation and what is it . Is considered the first blockbuster film. The story i want to tell is not only the making and release of the film in 1915 but the controversy that it provoked. It is mainly a story about a civil rights leader from a boston by the name of William Monroe trotter, a radical newspaper editor as well who was at the forefront of extensive protest action against this bill about civil war and reconstruction which is entirely races in his per trail of black america. If it were to come out today what would happen . I hope it would not get censored but i hope there will be lots of protest drawing attention to the racism at the heart of the story and in griffiths hands. We are going to do a minute am a want to show the opening of this if people have not seen it in what it looks like. It is three hours. Lets watch. [video clip] the first minute, what did we just the . We showed griffith, the first thing
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Starts off this way no redblooded american would favor censoring works of art. While reading dick lehrs book you may find yourself rooting for that with a clampdown of the 1915 film of the same name. Isnt that a great start . Why the birth of a nation and what is it . Its considered the first blockbuster film. The story i want to tell is not only the making and release of the film in 1915 but the controversy that it provoked. It is mainly a story about a civil rights leader from a boston by the name of William Monroe trotter, a radical newspaper editor as well who was at the forefront of extensive protest action against this bill film about civil war and reconstruction which is entirely racist portrayal of black america. If it were to come out today, what would happen . I hope it would not get censored but i hope there will be lots of protest drawing attention to the racism at the heart of the story and in griffiths hands. We are going to do a minute want to show the opening of this if
So i have a question as to how that actually works. We dont have any money to contribute. It is the defense bar that has a fair amount of moan. Being see on the civil side where certainly money may play a larger rule but on the criminal side i have a hard time seeing how those studies would validate the suggestion that the Campaign Contributions do have an impact. As a more general matter it with seem to me that there is very little actual distinction especially at sort of county levels where everyone knows everyone and the judge can look at the list of who contributed and it does not really matter whether or not it is the Campaign Committee that asks or the uphill, the uphill will know who his friends are and who are not his trends. Im curious why theres not more of a move to florida passed the laws to solve the problem but it does not really seem this particular law solves the problem and i think when you think of the massey case i think there was a trip to the south of france involv