Great Analysis. I enjoyed this movie though the scene at the bar of the racist police officer being held accountable rang false and seemed very Hollywoodish IMO. The burning cross at then end with the scenes from the Charlottesville Riots at the end rang much more true to me.
I think the ordering of those two scenes is intentional. The Hollywood ending we desire contrasted with something much closer to reality. But I like that we can imagine better endings for ourselves in movies - part of why i did not care for the ending of Queen and Slim oof
Spielberg wrote the Hollywood is ours repeat and fiction of shingles list nonsense wholesale myth, black and white is meant as found footage for future. Dr Tony Martin, the confederacy isn’t line in slavery but banking in all wars there are banking the slavery of today is entire central banking. Amateur and stereotype this is a larp and costume of identity. Prop up a real myth of a klan not infused by Jewish funds. ADl born in the rape of child by owner of factory Jewish pdf who blamed and still blames a good family man who was black and the southern lynching was of a real villian attended by blacks who where cleared of charges. Not even considered. Lynching is a reaction to not having Justice and white folks were overwhelming majority of the hung. They are the majority, culture is what it is your not merely resuscitating the dying corpse of bigotry so future believes it was here again adjective. I see none yet will never escape it, the genocide of ethnic Germans. It’s a plan with name texts but not my identity. I know and met victims, my mother sold me. Wager you were not sold, I explained that Kenyan Hindus got there is post slave diaspora to descendants. The slaves of post ? Harriett Tubman “ I’d of brought many more but they wouldn’t believe nor see themselves as slaves.” You boob slaves never grasp the slavery of your mind, you are a debt bank slave this is plagiarism. Stereotype.
Spielberg wrote the Hollywood is ours repeat and fiction of shingles list nonsense wholesale myth, black and white is meant as found footage for future. Dr Tony Martin, the confederacy isn’t line in slavery but banking in all wars there are banking the slavery of today is entire central banking. Amateur and stereotype this is a larp and costume of identity. Prop up a real myth of a klan not infused by Jewish funds. ADl born in the rape of child by owner of factory Jewish pdf who blamed and still blames a good family man who was black and the southern lynching was of a real villian attended by blacks who where cleared of charges. Not even considered. Lynching is a reaction to not having Justice and white folks were overwhelming majority of the hung. They are the majority, culture is what it is your not merely resuscitating the dying corpse of bigotry so future believes it was here again adjective. I see none yet will never escape it, the genocide of ethnic Germans. It’s a plan with name texts but not my identity. I know and met victims, my mother sold me. Wager you were not sold, I explained that Kenyan Hindus got there is post slave diaspora to descendants. The slaves of post ? Harriett Tubman “ I’d of brought many more but they wouldn’t believe nor see themselves as slaves.” You boob slaves never grasp the slavery of your mind, you are a debt bank slave this is plagiarism. Stereotype.
They made the German won WW2 it’s just alternative science fiction. No it’s not all about slavery it’s complex and really economics. This is childish you watch black minstrel horror, learn something? Wouldn’t you rather? I never heard of such a horror genre is it not created by Wayans analogous today version. As silky as the gas chambers, ever cover real human supremacy one group who looks at all no matter color as cattle goyim is name of us all. Yehudi. Slavery ended when as African said how long will it take to get shit together my friend. They will not weep on me as J struggled to arrive on the American lands where can be wealthy with ease of labor. Hippie illusion not art no lasting input but shame. Sexual slavery as a child is still…ya Basra no pasaran. Now rapist, how many women have expressed the most terrible statement on their own . I refuse to believe that and know it cannot be, “Your brothers and father? I love you and wouldn’t lie, don’t want to hurt you won’t, but yes” I wept because knew was the victim like others and at idea. But she didn’t know whole story, her intent was I was only trusted man to work in fields where women pestered male’s especially me, I’d had it all life. Their bodies had betrayed them but were in prime and of normal minds. She’d heard me explain to them I’d leave if kept harming me. Intercom picked it up, told paid for shift to work with me all we’re requesting and all males had been fired for something. She told me all in one night, I had told her if phd MDs who said understood issue because of black female identity. Published work don’t want in head abstracts can find. Chester was all black West Latino East . No other was ever saw but I bought found home. Claimed elderly wasn’t there. Only time no open air drugs disappeared on ninth street. Was easy, welt when new job took me away sold house. Giant number, pointless YT will erase as always.
Boredom of hackiness scribbled thoughts. Texts? Lived with Maya Sino saw massacre in square, photos never uploaded not silent genocide in my life dozens murders. One day total cannot imagine ran from. This isn’t even in lifetime and chase ghosts. I’ll show you shallow graves if want entire…tourism of faux oppressed.
i really appreciate your channel for existing bc i dont see many Black video essayists on youtube dissecting and analyzing Black media that’s cinema, books, or animation
Your videos are so incredible!!!!! I absolutely love the topics you choose. I appreciate that your boondocks videos blew up but your whole videography needs to blow up too! That first video about the Southern Beasts *destroyed* me in the best way. Love you perspective and i hope you keep creating ❤️❤️
Phenomenal video, I've seen at least one of your videos before and this got my subscription. Your descriptions of the role that emotion plays in fueling myth compared to history and memory was beautiful and insightful. If you have time, I really want to recommend the book "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War" by Viet Thanh Gnuyen. It's descriptions of the ethics of representation and industries of memory blew me away, and I think american mythology has a lot it needs to crticialy reflect on. Thanks for making great content.
So glad you brought up gone with the wind. God, the only book I could never finish. I had to read it for my class on literature in the american south in college (to be fair to my professor he made us read it to have a conversation about how the white ruling class of the south rewrites history but boy howdy let me tell you it was awkward enough for me to be sitting as the only american in that class it was one of my early moments questining the anthropolgiical sort of view of other cultures in academia and how that is tied to colonialism and whiteness) Blackkkllansman has been on my 'need to watch lisst' for a while, after this video I really need to check it out today.
Thanks for watching!! That college experience sounds like a head trip 🥴. Princesss Weekes has an excellent video on Gone With the Wind with a lot more focus on the book that you’ll probably appreciate
God, I'm so grateful to have found this channel and can't wait to see what else you decide to dive into! I'm curious if you've seen Tangerine and if that would be something you'd consider breaking down in the future? Either way I'm in love with the channel so far and whatever you come up with next will be great I'm sure!
Was gonna go to bed but instead ended up watching a video essay on the boondocks, a show I haven't seen since I was a kid. Now it's 3am and I'm going to watch every other video on this channel. Hope it blows up soon
I’m sure plenty of people said this already but I love how you keep bringing back the sound bites from previous points like your making a sandwich until all the pieces are in place. It seemed like it was easier to follow along with the boondocks video tho
This video essay was amazing, the film does such an amazing job of deconstructing media that holds up and romanticizes white supremacy. Your video gave so much context to the points Spike Lee was making.
There was also one more important thing about Woodrow wilson and the movie Birth of a Nation. That was the first movie ever shown in the White House. For those who don't know, Woodrow Wilson is a insane trip. President Wilson was know as the professor president because he was a HISTORY professor. So when he said " that was how it was" in response to Birth of a Nation, it's take as expert opinion. Like someone quoting a doctor because they are an expert in the field. Makes sense why the majority of the country thought the resurgence of the KKK was an okay thing to let happen. Also the real twist is that he was the leader of the progressives. Back then it was perfectly okay to be blatantly racist. So progressive racist might seem hard to put together. But that's how you separate, but equal ideal that didn't really end up equal in the long run. They feel that everyone has a right to education but don't want the races to mix and be separate..... progressive racist. Or everyone should have a right to a house, but in seperated communities (leading to redlining), you get the point. That was also when Democrats where closer to modern day Republicans when it comes to how they think about race and other societal things. On how much government influnce and how to handle finance both parties are still similar today. It was around this time that Democrat ideals started to change to it more modern ideals through the decades. But that's my little insight on Woodrow Wilason personal in my top 5 presidents i don't like, you get a bit why now.
Fantastic video. This isn't a criticism, (and you kind of acknowledged it with your thoughts on Reconstruction) but when you say the South lost the war, did they really though? Like I don't mean the Confederacy, but the South. Like at face value they "lost" the Civil War, but they won with the Compromise of 1877, and then everything they fought to preserve lived on in the form of debt peonage, prison labor, Jim Crow segregation, the KKK, sundown towns, etc. Like how can we say the South really lost, when you look at the lynchings, the pro-confederate films, and that there are Americans everywhere today who still buy the propaganda that slavery wasn't that bad? I really think it may be necessary to stop just flat out saying that the South lost, when history shows otherwise. And if we do say they lost, then it should always be they "lost" y'know? I've seen the Confederate flag waved many times too, and I'm in Washington state. That flag didn't just stay in the south, this is nationwide. If the biggest appeal of waving the flag today is to be a rebel, then acknowledging the way the South won in the end would take away that meaning real quick. Confederate fanboys have a fetish for being the "rebel" but you can't win and be a rebel. Also I love you labeling the Culture War as the Cold Civil War. That's perfect.
Yeah I’ve been using Adobe for a looong time now. I really only recently got over my anxiety about after effects and just dove into creating comps for some freelance work and am still kinda developing/exploring my style in all those tools with this video essay channel
Gotta write two papers this week and my idea is to anyalyze it through genre theory and talk about how it’s an anti war movie and the other is through Marxist theory. If you have any ideas it would be nice to hear from you so I can bounce off of those? If not great essay
The only good alt history about the confederacy is by Harry Turtledove. The Southern Victory series goes all out in how confederate America and Nazi Germany were barely different and goes deep into how devastating a Union-Confederate cold war would be. It's also interesting in how it shows that black people definitely would never submit to eternal slavery
Spike Lee is a director I ought to look more into. I know some of his movies like the old boy remake are total garbage, but I've heard really good things about this one from every reviewer who mentioned it.
@@goldfro Good to know. My only real knowledge of him is from YourMovieSuck's review of Old Boy, and he did mention some of those ones as good examples of Spike's directing
Hard to believe that “birth of a nation” is what first made people take film seriously as a format…and that it normalized feature-length films… It was 1915…you’d think they could’ve just made a WW1 movie
America wasn’t in the war yet, so such things wouldn’t have been in the mind of the American people. Besides, the whole war was just getting it started.
Great Analysis. I enjoyed this movie though the scene at the bar of the racist police officer being held accountable rang false and seemed very Hollywoodish IMO. The burning cross at then end with the scenes from the Charlottesville Riots at the end rang much more true to me.
I think the ordering of those two scenes is intentional. The Hollywood ending we desire contrasted with something much closer to reality. But I like that we can imagine better endings for ourselves in movies - part of why i did not care for the ending of Queen and Slim oof
Spielberg wrote the Hollywood is ours repeat and fiction of shingles list nonsense wholesale myth, black and white is meant as found footage for future. Dr Tony Martin, the confederacy isn’t line in slavery but banking in all wars there are banking the slavery of today is entire central banking. Amateur and stereotype this is a larp and costume of identity. Prop up a real myth of a klan not infused by Jewish funds. ADl born in the rape of child by owner of factory Jewish pdf who blamed and still blames a good family man who was black and the southern lynching was of a real villian attended by blacks who where cleared of charges. Not even considered. Lynching is a reaction to not having Justice and white folks were overwhelming majority of the hung. They are the majority, culture is what it is your not merely resuscitating the dying corpse of bigotry so future believes it was here again adjective. I see none yet will never escape it, the genocide of ethnic Germans. It’s a plan with name texts but not my identity. I know and met victims, my mother sold me. Wager you were not sold, I explained that Kenyan Hindus got there is post slave diaspora to descendants. The slaves of post ? Harriett Tubman “ I’d of brought many more but they wouldn’t believe nor see themselves as slaves.” You boob slaves never grasp the slavery of your mind, you are a debt bank slave this is plagiarism. Stereotype.
Spielberg wrote the Hollywood is ours repeat and fiction of shingles list nonsense wholesale myth, black and white is meant as found footage for future. Dr Tony Martin, the confederacy isn’t line in slavery but banking in all wars there are banking the slavery of today is entire central banking. Amateur and stereotype this is a larp and costume of identity. Prop up a real myth of a klan not infused by Jewish funds. ADl born in the rape of child by owner of factory Jewish pdf who blamed and still blames a good family man who was black and the southern lynching was of a real villian attended by blacks who where cleared of charges. Not even considered. Lynching is a reaction to not having Justice and white folks were overwhelming majority of the hung. They are the majority, culture is what it is your not merely resuscitating the dying corpse of bigotry so future believes it was here again adjective. I see none yet will never escape it, the genocide of ethnic Germans. It’s a plan with name texts but not my identity. I know and met victims, my mother sold me. Wager you were not sold, I explained that Kenyan Hindus got there is post slave diaspora to descendants. The slaves of post ? Harriett Tubman “ I’d of brought many more but they wouldn’t believe nor see themselves as slaves.” You boob slaves never grasp the slavery of your mind, you are a debt bank slave this is plagiarism. Stereotype.
They made the German won WW2 it’s just alternative science fiction. No it’s not all about slavery it’s complex and really economics. This is childish you watch black minstrel horror, learn something? Wouldn’t you rather? I never heard of such a horror genre is it not created by Wayans analogous today version. As silky as the gas chambers, ever cover real human supremacy one group who looks at all no matter color as cattle goyim is name of us all. Yehudi. Slavery ended when as African said how long will it take to get shit together my friend. They will not weep on me as J struggled to arrive on the American lands where can be wealthy with ease of labor. Hippie illusion not art no lasting input but shame. Sexual slavery as a child is still…ya Basra no pasaran. Now rapist, how many women have expressed the most terrible statement on their own . I refuse to believe that and know it cannot be, “Your brothers and father? I love you and wouldn’t lie, don’t want to hurt you won’t, but yes” I wept because knew was the victim like others and at idea. But she didn’t know whole story, her intent was I was only trusted man to work in fields where women pestered male’s especially me, I’d had it all life. Their bodies had betrayed them but were in prime and of normal minds. She’d heard me explain to them I’d leave if kept harming me. Intercom picked it up, told paid for shift to work with me all we’re requesting and all males had been fired for something. She told me all in one night, I had told her if phd MDs who said understood issue because of black female identity. Published work don’t want in head abstracts can find. Chester was all black West Latino East . No other was ever saw but I bought found home. Claimed elderly wasn’t there. Only time no open air drugs disappeared on ninth street. Was easy, welt when new job took me away sold house. Giant number, pointless YT will erase as always.
Boredom of hackiness scribbled thoughts. Texts? Lived with Maya Sino saw massacre in square, photos never uploaded not silent genocide in my life dozens murders. One day total cannot imagine ran from. This isn’t even in lifetime and chase ghosts. I’ll show you shallow graves if want entire…tourism of faux oppressed.
i really appreciate your channel for existing bc i dont see many Black video essayists on youtube dissecting and analyzing Black media that’s cinema, books, or animation
There are so many and I hope you start watching more of them!
Your videos are so incredible!!!!! I absolutely love the topics you choose. I appreciate that your boondocks videos blew up but your whole videography needs to blow up too! That first video about the Southern Beasts *destroyed* me in the best way. Love you perspective and i hope you keep creating ❤️❤️
Thank you so much for the encouragement. And the Beasts one is definitely my most personal so far, so I really appreciate that ✌🏾💛
Phenomenal video, I've seen at least one of your videos before and this got my subscription.
Your descriptions of the role that emotion plays in fueling myth compared to history and memory was beautiful and insightful.
If you have time, I really want to recommend the book "Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War" by Viet Thanh Gnuyen. It's descriptions of the ethics of representation and industries of memory blew me away, and I think american mythology has a lot it needs to crticialy reflect on.
Thanks for making great content.
Thanks for the book recommendation! sounds interesting
So glad you brought up gone with the wind. God, the only book I could never finish. I had to read it for my class on literature in the american south in college (to be fair to my professor he made us read it to have a conversation about how the white ruling class of the south rewrites history but boy howdy let me tell you it was awkward enough for me to be sitting as the only american in that class it was one of my early moments questining the anthropolgiical sort of view of other cultures in academia and how that is tied to colonialism and whiteness) Blackkkllansman has been on my 'need to watch lisst' for a while, after this video I really need to check it out today.
Thanks for watching!!
That college experience sounds like a head trip 🥴. Princesss Weekes has an excellent video on Gone With the Wind with a lot more focus on the book that you’ll probably appreciate
God, I'm so grateful to have found this channel and can't wait to see what else you decide to dive into! I'm curious if you've seen Tangerine and if that would be something you'd consider breaking down in the future? Either way I'm in love with the channel so far and whatever you come up with next will be great I'm sure!
Tangerine has been on my list for a while, it definitely seems like the kind of thing I’d like to cover on this channel ☺️
@@goldfro Oh no way, that's awesome! If it ever comes up in the future I can't wait to hear your thoughts on it ^^
Was gonna go to bed but instead ended up watching a video essay on the boondocks, a show I haven't seen since I was a kid. Now it's 3am and I'm going to watch every other video on this channel. Hope it blows up soon
I’ve been meaning to check you out for a while now, now I’m knocking myself for not peeping as soon as I heard about you. This was dope.
Ayyy it’s all good, Im just glad you decided to give it a watch! Curious where you first heard about the channel?
@@goldfro Saw you in COLORMIND's comment section homie
You did an amazing job on this video I wish more film critique and analysis on TH-cam was this well edited paced and thought out
Such an in-depth analysis and totally her for the editing. Look forward to hearing more thoughts!
I’m sure plenty of people said this already but I love how you keep bringing back the sound bites from previous points like your making a sandwich until all the pieces are in place. It seemed like it was easier to follow along with the boondocks video tho
For the algorithm ✊🏿
Ayy thanks for helpin the cause ✌🏾✊🏾
it's working because I just got this on my recommended
Production on this is so well done. Cant wait for more from you
This was incredible. Looking forward to future episodes!
the thumbnail alone is amazing! redacting histories to form stories? thats pretty cool!
Just discovered this channel. This showed me a different side to the movie, which is one of my favorites of all time. Much love from Denver🙏
This video essay was amazing, the film does such an amazing job of deconstructing media that holds up and romanticizes white supremacy. Your video gave so much context to the points Spike Lee was making.
Your stuff is nothing short of revolutionary my brother. Keep doing what you're doing.
appreciate you thank you
this is amazing work, you came up on the youtube recommended. I subscribed cant wait til i check out more of your content.
beautiful writing bruh, the whole mask off section 😮💨
Thank you, thank you. That definitely ended up being a difficult piece to talk about so I’m pretty happy with how it came out
I’m so happy I found this channel. Keep up the great work!!
All power for all the people! A simple yet beautiful and comforting statement
I needed to work on that movie for a group project, and your video was great inspiration for it.
There was also one more important thing about Woodrow wilson and the movie Birth of a Nation. That was the first movie ever shown in the White House. For those who don't know, Woodrow Wilson is a insane trip. President Wilson was know as the professor president because he was a HISTORY professor. So when he said " that was how it was" in response to Birth of a Nation, it's take as expert opinion. Like someone quoting a doctor because they are an expert in the field. Makes sense why the majority of the country thought the resurgence of the KKK was an okay thing to let happen. Also the real twist is that he was the leader of the progressives. Back then it was perfectly okay to be blatantly racist. So progressive racist might seem hard to put together. But that's how you separate, but equal ideal that didn't really end up equal in the long run. They feel that everyone has a right to education but don't want the races to mix and be separate..... progressive racist. Or everyone should have a right to a house, but in seperated communities (leading to redlining), you get the point. That was also when Democrats where closer to modern day Republicans when it comes to how they think about race and other societal things. On how much government influnce and how to handle finance both parties are still similar today. It was around this time that Democrat ideals started to change to it more modern ideals through the decades. But that's my little insight on Woodrow Wilason personal in my top 5 presidents i don't like, you get a bit why now.
Fantastic video. This isn't a criticism, (and you kind of acknowledged it with your thoughts on Reconstruction) but when you say the South lost the war, did they really though? Like I don't mean the Confederacy, but the South. Like at face value they "lost" the Civil War, but they won with the Compromise of 1877, and then everything they fought to preserve lived on in the form of debt peonage, prison labor, Jim Crow segregation, the KKK, sundown towns, etc. Like how can we say the South really lost, when you look at the lynchings, the pro-confederate films, and that there are Americans everywhere today who still buy the propaganda that slavery wasn't that bad? I really think it may be necessary to stop just flat out saying that the South lost, when history shows otherwise. And if we do say they lost, then it should always be they "lost" y'know? I've seen the Confederate flag waved many times too, and I'm in Washington state. That flag didn't just stay in the south, this is nationwide. If the biggest appeal of waving the flag today is to be a rebel, then acknowledging the way the South won in the end would take away that meaning real quick. Confederate fanboys have a fetish for being the "rebel" but you can't win and be a rebel.
Also I love you labeling the Culture War as the Cold Civil War. That's perfect.
This incredible video deserves to be heard.
How did you pick up your editing style? Did you do a lot of Adobe as part of your education?
Yeah I’ve been using Adobe for a looong time now. I really only recently got over my anxiety about after effects and just dove into creating comps for some freelance work and am still kinda developing/exploring my style in all those tools with this video essay channel
Profoundly insightful. Thank you for sharing this!
Im glad you got something out of it ☺️Thank you for watching!
Of course! Can't wait to learn more from your channel and perspective! 😊
such a high quality video holy shit!! where are all the views?!
under-rated channel
You should do autobooks
Gotta write two papers this week and my idea is to anyalyze it through genre theory and talk about how it’s an anti war movie and the other is through Marxist theory.
If you have any ideas it would be nice to hear from you so I can bounce off of those? If not great essay
The only good alt history about the confederacy is by Harry Turtledove. The Southern Victory series goes all out in how confederate America and Nazi Germany were barely different and goes deep into how devastating a Union-Confederate cold war would be. It's also interesting in how it shows that black people definitely would never submit to eternal slavery
Spike Lee is a director I ought to look more into. I know some of his movies like the old boy remake are total garbage, but I've heard really good things about this one from every reviewer who mentioned it.
Spike Primer:
Do The Right Thing
Crooklyn
Malcolm X
4 Little Girls
Blackkklansman
Inside man
@@goldfro Good to know. My only real knowledge of him is from YourMovieSuck's review of Old Boy, and he did mention some of those ones as good examples of Spike's directing
Glad I was sent here ❤️ great content!
You have that soothing NPR voice my goodness
Streets needed this 💯
So fantastic, more please!
Awesome job my guy ✊🏻
Been waiting for something like this!
Hard to believe that “birth of a nation” is what first made people take film seriously as a format…and that it normalized feature-length films…
It was 1915…you’d think they could’ve just made a WW1 movie
America wasn’t in the war yet, so such things wouldn’t have been in the mind of the American people. Besides, the whole war was just getting it started.
I'm new to your channel. We need more videos from you.
My friend, we are all philosopher's
Great stuff man your gonna start blowing up soon!
✊🏿
Watching topher grace play out a klan leader is insane lol
Yeah XD Though, I was able to take it more seriously than I expected I would.
This doesn’t have enough views!
extremely good video
Alec Baldwin looks just like Ross Barnett, Mississippi governor in the 60's
Great analysis!
these videos are cracked man
But for real tho, love the videos 🤌🏾✊🏾
Algorithm boost!
Hi i love your videos 🤩
Thanks for watching ☺️
✨✨✨ great vid
One thing daughters of the confederacy
Algorithm comment, nigga
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Does anyone actually care about Jesse being lynched because he was black or because he was disabled?