PRO SOUTHERN RACISM!!!!

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You're advocating censorship? Really? Want to burn a few books while you're at it, Adolf?

I didn't see this film as pro-South. In fact, I was quite surprised by how careful it was to put across the anti-slavery view. Take Kit, for instance, isn't she one of numerous characters to say that what Brown fights for is undoubtedly right, but his methods are definitely wrong? That isn't pro-South - its a fair point. Custer as well has his only disagreement with Jeb over the issue of slavery, making it clear he believes it is wrong. For the 1940s, I thought it provided a surprisingly balanced point of view.

Gene Hunt: She's as nervous as a very small nun at a penguin shoot

in an otherwise intelligent & insightful post, you refrain the notion that slavery was not the front-and-center issue of the rebellion, and the war between the states over the question of the ability of the states to rebel against the union.

i have never understood the reluctance of people to acknowledge that slavery is what overhung the era. slavery was THE CAUSE OF the conflict. absent the conflict over slavery, the question of secession and rebellion never arises.

i'm not minimizing how central slave-labor was to the southern economy, and how unthinkable it must have been for southerners or, indeed, the nation as a whole to confront a reformation, but that was the central problem of the age. not disunion, the consequence.

"I ...actually thought that John Brown was some raving maniac ..."

Some of his actions were decidedly over-the-top, regardless of how righteous his cause may seem in retrospect. Ossawatomie Massacre, anyone?

See it is people like you that have contributed to the dumbing down of this nation. Yes this move was made years ago but it is still being seen and you can buy it in any video store. The movie used historical characters, not fictional characters in the movie and they are portrayed in a way that was not consistent with history. If they are going to use historical characters, well at least get their history right. I am not for banning of any movie. Where you got that from only the stars in the sky knows. First I want to mention that the actor Raymond Massey seems to had tried to his best not to make John Brown a raging maniac but Warner's tried their hardest to not let Massey at least insert some decency to the character. And it was a entertaining movie,which makes it more dangerous.

What I am against is that the movie studio knowing that movies are very powerful and influential distorted history. It would of been a lot different if they used fictional characters. But no they did not and they did not for a reason. They wanted the viewers to believe and support their viewpoint. They actually made it seem like slavery was not such a bad thing and John Brown was some type of devil and the person who betrayed him was redeemed. They even made the fellow classmate who supported the abolition of slavery look like a troublemaker who needed to be kicked out of the Academy. And he paid for his beliefs by dying like some type of coward. Look at his name, Rader, his name even branded him. How dare them. He was a fictional character though. Isn't that odd? They made it seem like preserving slavery was some type of heroic quest. Did you see the scene when the slaves were on the train? You thought that was ok?
To top it off this studio is the same one that made the Native Americans look like some animal.

The studio knew that slavery was barely mentioned in the schools like the holocaust was barely mentioned on the schools in Germany. They made the man who thought slavery was a terrible thing a raving maniac. To this day people still think that John Brown was some type of devil. No one would call Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys terrorists in a movie. But believe me those men were not any different in their actions then John Brown, not one iota. But for some reason when it came and comes to showing the evils of slavery or fighting against it those great men are made to be something less then normal. Yes it is a movie but movies are very powerful. If you went one year to any school you would see how they even show movies in classes as teaching implements and I am sure this movie had been used as one and you think we are idiots. Well like they say people who are truly crazy never know they are. Now go look up a shrink.

I had to add this. I am not for any banning anything, even if I do not agree or or it insults me. See people like you accuse us of doing the same exact thing you are doing. Why would you feel CSA should be banned simply because the Sound of the South is? Is this just a game of tit for tat for you? If you were really correct you would not want anything banned AT ALL. I think Sound of the South should be on the market. I felt the movie White Dog should of not been taken off the market because of the NAACP or Amos and Andy which suffered the fate it did because of them also. I believe everything should be free to see or read or hear. See if one thing is banned sooner or later they come looking to ban something I like.

I cannot even put CSA in the same category as Santa Fe Trail simply because it is explained that the movie is about how life might have been if indeed the Confederate won. Do you actually think if they won black people would enjoy the same freedoms as they do now? Do you seriously believe a black man, Spike Lee, could even think about producing such a movie or produce anything other then offspring for the slave owner if the Confederate won? See you cannot blame a film maker for assuming a system that debased black people and treated us like property would indeed be any different if allowed to carry on if indeed that is the way the system was? I think Lee was only the executive Producer of C.S.A. but that is not important. IMO Bamboozled was far more powerful and very telling. See only racist do not like to see how diabolical the system of slavery was and they are bothered by movies like C.S.A. and they really do not like if people comment on how movies have distorted the system by making it seem it like it was not so bad. If you think being politically correct is making sure slavery is shown in the light it should be, well, so what, call me politically correct. Since when is that a bad thing? I would think being a bigot is a lot worse.