Do they move on to Gone With The Wind High School?
Not too long ago, there was a to-do when the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles wanted to show "Birth of a Nation." I've never seen it, so I'm not fit to comment, but it seems the good news is that it's a groundbreaking epic film and the bad news is that it makes the Klan look good.
What interests me is that there's a middle school in East LA named after its director. It's cool that LA is enough into movies to have, say, a theater dedicated to silent films...not so much that we're naming mainstream educational institutions after directors.
What's worse is that if this movie is actually a racist piece of shit (again, haven't seen it, don't know), about 2500 non-white kids have to go to a school named after a guy who thought the KKK was hip.
It's LA, after all, so we could even rename it after a different celebrity. I nominate George Lopez.
Not too long ago, there was a to-do when the Silent Movie Theater in Los Angeles wanted to show "Birth of a Nation." I've never seen it, so I'm not fit to comment, but it seems the good news is that it's a groundbreaking epic film and the bad news is that it makes the Klan look good.
What interests me is that there's a middle school in East LA named after its director. It's cool that LA is enough into movies to have, say, a theater dedicated to silent films...not so much that we're naming mainstream educational institutions after directors.
What's worse is that if this movie is actually a racist piece of shit (again, haven't seen it, don't know), about 2500 non-white kids have to go to a school named after a guy who thought the KKK was hip.
It's LA, after all, so we could even rename it after a different celebrity. I nominate George Lopez.
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