On 3/25/07, Yoshie Furuhashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Yes, The Birth of a Nation is about the KKK and pro-Southern whites, but so is Gone with the Wind, though more ambiguously so. Ashley Wilkes, Scarlet's original love and the mirror of Southern gentlemen, is a member of the Klan.
the Wilkes-types usually kept an arms-distance from the KKK, joining "white citizens' councils" instead. -- Jim Devine / "The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel." -- C. P. Kindleberger
