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Ku Klux Klan In Birth Of A Nation

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The final character is the Ku Klux Klan in Birth of a Nation is shown, as a hero if it’s not Ku Klux Klan America would be in ruins. Ku Klux Klan is there to protect the pure white race from the blacks. Griffith depicts his Klansmen committing horrendous acts against blacks; he clearly regards these crimes as justified and means the audience to feel likewise. This can be seen by a scene where a trial and lynching of a black man whose frighten a white woman that led to her death, and the reversing of election fraud attributed earlier in the film to black militia seen blocking leading white citizens from approaching the polls, with subjugated blacks now barred by Klan guardsmen; fear and the need to do something drove a lot of people to become
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