Review of America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014) by Andrea B — 10 Jul 2014

I don't expect liberal movie critics to give this a high review, so the 10% is no big surprise. Sean Means' review is particularly telling of an already biased "critic" whose mind is already closed, and therefore predictably comes to the exact wrong conclusion that D'Souza intended.

Anyone who watched this film with at least a partly open mind would know immediately that he was not making excuses for America's past sins. There is nothing to suggest that he was remotely dismissive about slavery, for example.

In fact, he fully acknowledged that it was and continues to be a horrible institution. BUT NOT UNIQUELY AMERICAN. That doesn't mean it wasn't that bad; biased critics like Means are so quick to come to the wrong conclusion that he fails to see that D'Souza hit on a major point, that slavery was a global scandal that all races participated in.

So yes, there were black slave-owners and there were white slaves in early colonial America, too. Yes, white Americans took land from the Sioux, but yes, the Sioux took the same land from another tribe, who took it from another tribe, and so on.

What I liked about this movie was that it was incredibly realistic, rather than continuing a mythological narrative that pigeon-holes everyone into convenient categories: all blacks are enslaved, all Native Americans are peaceful people who only want to commune with nature, and all whites are evil horrible thieves and rapists.

D'Souza dares to bash through all that and get to the real, which is why I recommend that when you do see this film, you set your Zinn aside and really listen. 5 stars!!!