Two More Sides of the Nate Parker Coin
A tease of this weekend's 60 Minutes interview and an excoriating Variety guest column.
Nate Parker is right. He was tried and acquitted by a jury. The sister of his alleged victim is also right. The 1999 incident and aftermath gradually destroyed that woman, her family and haunts relatives to this day.
These disparate elements were on full display Thursday thanks to 60 Minutes teasing this weekend’s interview of Parker with Anderson Cooper (booked before the recent controversy) and Variety, through reporter Gene Maddaus, posting the excoriating thoughts of Sharon Loeffler. Here’s her perspective on a topic that has been raised by others in recent months about the narrative of The Birth of a Nation:
As her sister, the thing that pains me most of all is that in retelling the story of the Nat Turner slave revolt, they invented a rape scene.
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