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[Jonathan Lighter]

Daily Beast,
https://www.yahoo.com/news/inside-ku-klux-klan-plan-032610250.html :

*The Birth of a Nation* set the technical and artistic standards for the
up-and-coming movie industry and became propaganda for Klan recruitment as
it hailed Black people as sexual predators, political deviants, idiots, and
wastes of space when not in positions of servitude.

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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