nearing the end of his reign, blackbeard declares a new arrival to be roman, whose role it is to telld theatrical performance piece — with mime, dance, poetry, and oral history intertwined in a whirling cinematic maelstrom. there's a fable—like element that links night of the kings back to the folkloric tales of 1,000 and one nights — with roman a modern—day scheherazade — and to the oral storytelling traditions of west africa. but lacote�*s cinematic storytelling is all his own, mixing the personal and political in a heady brew that's unlike anything else currently playing in uk cinemas. i'll leave you with news of the french comedy—drama bye bye morons, which picked up a whopping seven awards, including best film at the 46th cesars earlier this year. virginie efira is suze trappet, a woman with little time searching for the child she gave up for adoption. writer—director albert dupontel plays the snubbed it operative whose botched suicide attempt misfires with spectacular results. and nicolas marie is the blind archivist who winds up helping the mismatched pair to track her child an

you have people like the notorious pirate blackbeard. you have thomas dale, the heavy-handed governor of the jamestown colony. you have king philip, the native american leader namesake of king philip's war. most prominently you have a number of american loyalists from the revolutionary war. you have simon gertie. you have walter butler. at one point, they ask, where is benedict arnold? he is away on other business. otherwise he would be the foreman of the jury. here we are in the early 20th century and yet the greatest villains in american history include these loyalists. throughout the 19th and 20th century, loyalists are portrayed as the arch villains of america's past. they are people who resisted the founding of the republic. they are portrayed as proud, very petty, sometimes clownishly incompetent. sometimes bloodthirsty savages. really all of these stereotypes play into the popular conception of american loyalists. even hundreds of years after the conflict had ended. and in many ways this obscured the reality of american low realis

now is um a repeat and the rollback to reconstruction reconstructions and period teen 1865 1977 blackbeard people experience the maximum amount of freedom, because the 13 14 to 15 amendment and and it was all rolled back by the period called redemption and that's what we saw with the rise of donald trump. and the rise of the tea party and thank god donald trump was denied a second term because we would really we being black people of women gay people trans people. well, we would oh, yeah, we would our rights would have been on trouts, you know, we never finished our discussion about those five ministers. oh, yeah, you know, so let me wrap that up. okay, the lincoln as you said, you said the crucial thing the north was being defeated. so when the when the newspapers printed the fact that lincoln and met with these five black ministers and why at the white house into encourage them to lead the free community, you know out of here in emigrate to africa or to latin america or the caribbean and douglas and all the other black abolitionists go crazy lincoln then releases the preliminary mass pat