Why is this movie a giant projection that shows blacks doing to whites, what in reality whites did to blacks?In the film we see whites getting disenfranchised, all black juries unfairly punishing whites, black police brutality against white people, black people showing a condescending towards whitesThe races are reversed in treatment of each other. Was it a guilty conscience?
>>18514767It's what happens if you give them power over you.
>>18514767It was set during Reconstruction, a brief post-civil war period of American history when the feds attempted to enforce racial equality in the South, until armed resistance got them to give up until the 1960s.Whites who fought for the confederacy were indeed disenfranchised (though it didn't stick), this is well-attested historically and was a major issue in the politics of the era. Blacks could also serve on juries and in the police during reconstruction, although Birth of a Nation is a work of historical fiction and I'm not sure the specific abuses it portrayed actually happened or which events, if any, inspired them. Still, there was plenty of bad blood in the era, it's hard to imagine that no ex-slaves abused their newfound power, although on the whole I get the sense the film had the message "and this is why Jim Crow is a good thing and racial equality is bad".
>>18514767>Why is this movie a giant projection that shows blacks doing to whites, what in reality whites did to blacks?No, it's sensible for Americans to expect other Americans to act out on their national character. As a culture, they had achieved the status of knowing themselves, they just failed to recognize themselves in their fellow citizens here.
