"The film is many things: repulsive, naïve, biased, simplistic, historically inaccurate and astonishing in its view of history and racist glorification of the KKK. Yet it tremendously significant and powerful work of art with extraordinary effect and brilliantly-filmed sequences" (Dirks). The movie was based on one man's simple but yet repulsive story. The flaw in past American actions that can well be seen is in a group of white men named the Klu Klux …showed first 75 words of 797 total…

…showed last 75 words of 797 total…nation. Ignorance in the case of prejudice fool is contagious and as long as it feed the human race, either through novels, plays or simply patio talk, racism will always be around. The movie ends with its final subtitle: "Liberty and union, one and inseparable, now and forever!" Which makes you wonder, does The Birth of a Nation refer to the re-established 'united' states, or to the "birth" of the Invisible Empire-The Klu Klux Klan?