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Birth of a Movement – Racial Pornography – Clip

January 24, 2017 by Independent Lens

Man hiding under table

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scene from Griffith's Birth of a Nation wherein the Klan surround a "mulatto man" (played by a white actor in blackface), in the film Birth of a Movement

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