his friend d.w. griffith, they were both white supremacist of the confederacy. their families helped start the ku klux klan and in their particular home state. and and griffith is only too happy to make a movie out of the klansman. and when they started putting together, they needed some principle villains. e r ormar b actress. you see how she looks in blackface pretty disgusting. so in in thaddeus is is this amazing? i won't go through all the plot twists but eventually thaddeus an comes to see the light when he's hanging around. these southerners finally sees the light that that that white people should be running the south. yeah. yeah, it really lydia hamilton smith on the other hand, because she the biggest threat that thomas dickson and d.w. griffith could even imagine which was she she was already the product of race mixing and they were dedicate it to preserving the purity of the white race. so so whereas they, they, they let stevens the hook at the end of the story, lydia was described as but lascivious, hypersexual, animalistic mulatto woman and mulatto