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BLACK HISTORY MONTH- The BEST Film about American Slavery, MANDINGO

  Heinrich Himmler was a chicken farmer before he became a  leading light of Hitler's racist, murderous  Nazi regime. The recent flurry of American films and plays about American Slavery have cast all slaveholders as Himmler's demented heirs: mad, mean,  and demented chicken farmers. Alas, these Millennial attempts to explain or contextualize American Slavery fail to explain the American Goebbels; those  intellectuals who supported, enhanced and presided over slavery. Goebbels was no chicken farmer; he held a   Doctorate from the University of Heidelberg in Philosophy. Yet there he was, complicit in the chicken farmer's mass murder and the failed painter's genocide.  None of the Millennial attempts, to address American Slavery, offer up an explanation of how a peculiar institution could survive 240 years, being administered by chicken farmers. One film tried and succeeded, in explaining the survival of American Slavery,MANDINGO. It did that service by highlighting the s