I feel like since the veterans wouldn’t let Dr. Cameron give himself up, he just wanted to “protect his daughters” from the black people by bashing their heads in? He probably believed they were going to come in and rape the women, because that was a major stereotype of black men during this time. They were hypersexualized and depicted as rapists of helpless white women. This was embedded in writings published during this period of time. He didn’t want race mixing to occur.
Griffith is trying to portray White supremacy as the law of the land and that it’s an ideal perfect world for whites. The city on the hill represents the whites being “safe from the black mobs”. He is also saying that Jesus is totally okay with all of this. It’s all just very racist.
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