Jane Drew
AMST-185-005
12 December 2014
Final Essay

Love has a lot to do with race it has a way of bringing out both good and bad in some people and unfortunately in some cases the issues of love and race are taken too far. In today’s society it is not as much of an issue to see interracial couples together as it used to be in the past, but that does not mean that it is not still an issue for some people. Throughout the semester we have studied different ways that not only in the cases of love but also family, friendship, and community are affected by racial issues both past and present, which only goes to show that racism still exists in our world today despite all of the progressions that we have made towards fixing the issue. The three main resources that I found really helpful for ways that the authors got their point across to the readers and or viewers about racial struggle is Birth of a Nation, Black is… Black Ain’t and If He Hollers Let Him Go. In D.W. Griffith’s film, The Birth of a Nation we see how two different families the Stoneman’s who are from the North and the Cameron’s who are from the South who are close friends in the beginning are quickly torn apart because of differing opinions and viewpoints on the support racial integration. Reason being why they are torn apart it because the patriarch of one household supports racial integration and the other patriarch of the family opposes it. Amid a love story when Ben Cameron falls for Elsie Stoneman, he joins the Ku Klux Klan being that the Klan’s only purpose is to show the significance and as how being white was the superior race and the only one that was of any importance and that Blacks were only useful as slaves. The KKK is a huge part of shaming, embarrassing and most importantly terrorizing Blacks making sure that they knew and understood that they had no such important role in