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Now Streaming: WHITE WITH FEAR (2024)
It was Pat Buchanan who suggested to Richard Nixon that it would be okay to divide the country in two, so long as he got the bigger half.
No Fox News is good news.
WHITE WITH FEAR (2024) Andrew Goldberg / Cinematographer: Robert Hanna (1.85:1) / Editor: Diana Robinson / Producers: Diana Robinson & Eric Ward / As Themselves: Ian Haney López, Leah Wright-Rigueur, Tim Miller, Brian Stetler, Rick Gates, Steve Bannon, Jean Guerrero, Eddie Glaude, Katie McHugh, & Hillary Clinton / Documentary / Production Companies: So Much Film & Spring Bird Productions / USA / Not Rated / Length: 86 mins.
Once upon a time, Richard Nixon spoke from the heart: “You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.” It was at this point in our geopolitical history that Republican fear and loathing, as we know it, was born. It was Pat Buchanan who suggested to Richard Nixon that it would be okay to divide the country in two, so long as when the dust settled, he got the bigger half. The next in line of the numerous takeaways found in Andrew Goldberg’s White With Fear is really quite simple: fear is the best motivator. Instill terror in white voters about race, but do it in a manner where they can’t call you a racist.
Video:
Trailer: WHITE WITH FEAR
No Democratic president since 1964 has carried a majority of the white vote. Author Ian Haney López takes it one step further: “American electoral politics after Nixon’s victory was first and foremost about racial resentment.” Skip ahead three decades to the dawn of Fox News, where a legacy of exacting inexactness continues to this day. At the time, there was no one better to oversee the grinding of Rupert Murdoch’s hate mill of GOP talking points than the man responsible for securing Nixon the presidency, Roger Ailes. 9/11 drove the shiv deeper, helping to reduce the American way of thinking to an “us against them” mentality that branded every Muslim a terrorist.
September 11th put Fox News in the headlines. It had become de rigueur for the network to stoke fear of the “brown menace.” “Terrorist" became a byword for “Muslim.” A trembly woman with a mic in her face confessed fear that an Obama win was tantamount to a black takeover. Next up, the TEA Party, a thinly veiled racial uprising against a black president. (Bonus points if you knew that the TEA in TEA Party was an acronym for Taxed Enough Already.) You want white hot fear? The higher a black man rises in a white man’s world, the fiercer the racial divide becomes. Obama’s ascendance saw a rise in gun sales.
Andrew Goldberg (The Armenians: A Story of Survival, A Yiddish World Remembered , The Iranian Americans) does well at giving voice to all sides of the argument over what Kevin Phillips — a political strategist employed by Team Nixon's campaign — best sums up: “Politics is the organized deployment of hatred.” As if the subjects weren’t compelling enough, Goldberg chooses to underscore each interview with pulse-pounding Muzak. Sir, wall-to-wall ambient thumping is best left to a network reality series. And as presented, the center-frame interview subjects are photographed in a manner befitting podcasts, not cinema.
Trusting that you see where the story is going, I’ll close at the point in the chronology where Trump first blames the country's deep racial divide on President Obama. If you're looking for an expert assemblage of facts pieced together in a manner both compelling and informative, check out White With Fear when it platforms June 3 on a viewing device near you. ***
Here's something you might be interested in.
Now Streaming: WHITE WITH FEAR (2024)
It was Pat Buchanan who suggested to Richard Nixon that it would be okay to divide the country in two, so long as he got the bigger half.
Now Streaming: WHITE WITH FEAR (2024)
It was Pat Buchanan who suggested to Richard Nixon that it would be okay to divide the country in two, so long as he got the bigger half.
No Fox News is good news.
WHITE WITH FEAR (2024) Andrew Goldberg / Cinematographer: Robert Hanna (1.85:1) / Editor: Diana Robinson / Producers: Diana Robinson & Eric Ward / As Themselves: Ian Haney López, Leah Wright-Rigueur, Tim Miller, Brian Stetler, Rick Gates, Steve Bannon, Jean Guerrero, Eddie Glaude, Katie McHugh, & Hillary Clinton / Documentary / Production Companies: So Much Film & Spring Bird Productions / USA / Not Rated / Length: 86 mins.
Once upon a time, Richard Nixon spoke from the heart: “You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to.” It was at this point in our geopolitical history that Republican fear and loathing, as we know it, was born. It was Pat Buchanan who suggested to Richard Nixon that it would be okay to divide the country in two, so long as when the dust settled, he got the bigger half. The next in line of the numerous takeaways found in Andrew Goldberg’s White With Fear is really quite simple: fear is the best motivator. Instill terror in white voters about race, but do it in a manner where they can’t call you a racist.
Video:
Trailer: WHITE WITH FEAR
No Democratic president since 1964 has carried a majority of the white vote. Author Ian Haney López takes it one step further: “American electoral politics after Nixon’s victory was first and foremost about racial resentment.” Skip ahead three decades to the dawn of Fox News, where a legacy of exacting inexactness continues to this day. At the time, there was no one better to oversee the grinding of Rupert Murdoch’s hate mill of GOP talking points than the man responsible for securing Nixon the presidency, Roger Ailes. 9/11 drove the shiv deeper, helping to reduce the American way of thinking to an “us against them” mentality that branded every Muslim a terrorist.
September 11th put Fox News in the headlines. It had become de rigueur for the network to stoke fear of the “brown menace.” “Terrorist" became a byword for “Muslim.” A trembly woman with a mic in her face confessed fear that an Obama win was tantamount to a black takeover. Next up, the TEA Party, a thinly veiled racial uprising against a black president. (Bonus points if you knew that the TEA in TEA Party was an acronym for Taxed Enough Already.) You want white hot fear? The higher a black man rises in a white man’s world, the fiercer the racial divide becomes. Obama’s ascendance saw a rise in gun sales.
Andrew Goldberg (The Armenians: A Story of Survival, A Yiddish World Remembered , The Iranian Americans) does well at giving voice to all sides of the argument over what Kevin Phillips — a political strategist employed by Team Nixon's campaign — best sums up: “Politics is the organized deployment of hatred.” As if the subjects weren’t compelling enough, Goldberg chooses to underscore each interview with pulse-pounding Muzak. Sir, wall-to-wall ambient thumping is best left to a network reality series. And as presented, the center-frame interview subjects are photographed in a manner befitting podcasts, not cinema.
Trusting that you see where the story is going, I’ll close at the point in the chronology where Trump first blames the country's deep racial divide on President Obama. If you're looking for an expert assemblage of facts pieced together in a manner both compelling and informative, check out White With Fear when it platforms June 3 on a viewing device near you. ***