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Comprehensive it isn't.

posted 9 years ago by BlobbyLight
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American indian, anyone?

This views like an 80's public school history lesson. Lincolns north were the good guys!! Out to destroy the evil in our lands.. yeah, right.

Apart from a couple random statements "he went out west to fight indians".. "the only good indian is a dead indian" etc.. there is not one mention of the American indian in this entire series.

The fact is, the very same people responsible for (the both locally and internationally widely opposed convenient last ditch effort to save the political cause) "freeing" of the African slave (as if), including and especially Lincoln himself, are also responsible for beginning the ongoing systematic extermination of the native people, purely out of ego/greed and of course monetary gain.

While visually stunning, I am disgusted with the message put forth in this series. Next.

[–] nighttrumpet 8 years ago

It didn't set out to be comprehensive so your whole diatribe is meaningless. Watch the West if want you like Indians so much.

[–] BlobbyLight 8 years ago

 Yes, actually it did. And even despite the extermination taking place, much of the native American Indian tribes did in fact play major roles in the war. "Watch the West if want you like Indians so much." Huh?  Somebody needs history, English (among many other) lessons. Jog on pal....

[–] nighttrumpet 8 years ago

Show a quote from Ken Burns where he states his intent to be comprehensive of every demographic participant in the war.

[–] indy_go_blue44 8 years ago

"Next on PBS. "The American History: 1851-1900", a Ken Burns film that is inclusive of every facet of the American experience in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century. Featuring 9 episodes on the American Civil War."

[–] herbsuperb 8 years ago

So go make a film that IS comprehensive if you feel it so important. Enjoy spending the rest of your miserable life in the pursuit, and dying long before it could be finished.

I am disgusted with the message put forth in this series.

What message is that exactly? What did you take away from this film?