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Bobby, Geoff, and writer and special guest Jasmine Sanders (@JasMoneyRecords) sit down for a discussion of "The Birth of a Nation" and whether it's as valuable and important a film as some critics have said it is, despite director and cowriter Nate Parker's 1999 rape charge and his not-so-contrite response to it in the present day. Vinson Cunningham's New Yorker piece: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/10/the-birth-of-a-nation-isnt-worth-defending Thomas Gray's original report on Nat Turner from 1832: https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Confessions_of_Nat_Turner_the_Leader.html?id=4DcSAAAAYAAJ The Code-Switch Podcast's Nate Parker episode: http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/08/24/491088359/nate-parkers-past-his-present-and-the-future-of-birth-of-a-nation-episode-14 Nate Parker's Breakfast Club interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hMDO-7NZuM Credits: Producers: Geoff George & Bobby Evers Intro music: "Elk Mountain," by Melkbelly