Princeton student protest: Woodrow Wilson

[StLucieBengal]

(11-20-2015, 03:33 PM)GMDino Wrote: First: provide a link to your quote.  I found it easily enough, but its good form.

Second:  Yes, Griffith put some placards in the beginning of the film that were quotes from Wilson's book (published a decade before becoming President).

Third: Later ( a decade AFTER the film) Wilson even admitted the KKK was vile:

http://www.slideshare.net/timothyjgraham/lynching-31950429

But I've found that you think if you just make sweeping generalizations it seems less like you are lying...

http://chnm.gmu.edu/episodes/the-birth-of-a-nation-and-black-protest/

Of all the things to defend this clown on....   This isn't one of them.   He was an actual hardcore racist.    What he says a decade later is irrelevant since he is only trying to fix his legacy after the fact.

It was the highest grossing movie until gone with the wind. And was partly due to his support of the film despite the republicans and the naacp protesting the film throughout .