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A film that angered me was Stanley Kramer’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.1 A beautiful young daughter of wealthy parents, portrayed by Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn, wants to marry a brilliant Black doctor, played by Sidney Poitier. The film makes clear that such a marriage creates some problems but it is the morally right thing to do. Of course, Mr. Kramer produced no films promoting Jewish intermarriage with Gentiles. Many years later Newsweek magazine dubbed Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner an "educational film for White Americans, who seeing their screen heroes surrender their daughter to a black male, would feel less compunction in doing the same."2

To catalogue the host of anti-White films produced by the Hollywood establishment would be a monumental task, but I can offer some pertinent examples. David Wolper, an ardent supporter of Israel, produced many anti-White programs, including the television miniseries Roots.3 Marvin Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, and Gilbert Moses directed the much-touted docudrama. Roots was perhaps the second most promoted and watched miniseries ever aired on television (only the Holocaust4 miniseries had a larger audience due to its incredible media promotion). Roots found its own roots in Alex Haley’s book of the same title. Roots is a historically misleading book and film that produced widespread Black hatred against Whites and self-hatred and guilt among many Whites.5

Interestingly, Jewish writer Harold Courlander sued Alex Haley for plagiarism. In writing a supposedly historically accurate book dealing with the African roots of American Negroes, Haley had stolen whole sections of Courlander's fictional novel called The African.16 Haley affirmed his plagiarism in agreeing to an out-of-court settlement with Courlander for $500,000. At the height of Roots’ popularity, most Americans never became aware that Haley based part of Roots on a work of fiction.

Freedom Road was another fantasy palmed off to a trusting public as an accurate portrayal of Southern Reconstruction.7 The All-Movie Guidebook, for instance, lists it as an "historical film." When it came out in 1979, many public-school history and civic classes assigned it for homework. Muhammed Ali starred in the film as Gideon Jackson, a former slave who enters politics and forms an unlikely Southern coalition of freed Blacks and poor Whites. He is then elected to the U.S. Senate from South Carolina and finally leads his poor White and Black followers in a struggle against their wealthy White oppressors until slain in a shootout with the Ku Klux Klan.

History records that there has never been a Black senator from South Carolina. Only two Black senators served during Reconstruction, both from Mississippi, and both died of natural causes. Freedom Road takes on added perspective when one learns that the producer of this historical fantasy was Zev Braun, and the director was J’an K’adir. "Chosenite" Howard Fast wrote the original fictional novel. Fast also happened to be a longtime member of the American Communist Party, and his autobiography is titled Being Red.8 Teachers, probably unaware of Fast’s ardent Communism, ordered millions of public-school children to watch and do reports on this alleged "docudrama." Is it any wonder that so many White Americans have such a distorted view of their history and of the race issue? Could one expect less, knowing that they are getting a Communist interpretation of American history?


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  1. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. Columbia. (1967). Director, Producer: Stanley Kramer. Screenwriter: William Rose. Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt.
  2. Newsweek. (1991). June 10.
  3. Roots. (1977). Wolper Productions. Directors: Marvin Chomsky, John Erman, David Greene, and Gilbert Moses. Producer: David Wolper.
  4. The Holocaust. (1978). Titus Productions. Director: Marvin Chomsky. Producers: Robert Berger and Herbert Brodkin. Screenplay: Gerald Green. Music: Morton Gould. Producer: Robert Berger.
  5. Haley, A. (1976). Roots. Garden City, New York: Doubleday.
  6. Courlander, H. (1967). The African. New York: Crown Publishers.
  7. Freedom Road (1979). Zev Braun Productions, Freedom Road Films. Director: J'an K'adir. Producer: Zev Braun. Writer: Howard Fast. Editor: Anne Goursaud.
  8. Fast, H. (1990). Being Red. Boston. Houghton Mifflin.

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