An antidote

WITHIN OUR GATES is a 1920 silent film by Black film auteur Oscar Micheaux. It was an explicit response to BOAN. Though Micheaux lacked the financial resources available to Griffith, he achieved a remarkable film depicting issues relevant to Blacks in the early Twentieth century. His characters are as wooden as those in the earlier film but they work. The storyline creaks along. This film has a chilling depiction of a lynching. It is suggested in an impressionist manner, which makes the event more horrible than if it had been shown in explicit detail. I recommend that people look at this, as well as some of the later films by Micheaux.