The Intruder William Shatner

William Shatner plays a white racist in this excerpt from the Roger Corman movie "The Intruder." Yes, he can really act. These and other fine clips can be found in the Oxford American Southern DVD 2007 that accompanies its Southern movie issue. Buy the magazine or subscribe at www.oxfordamericanmag.com for the best writing anywhere on Southern culture and life.

More details on the movie can be found here:
http://www.dvdtalk.com/dvdsavant/s242...

And searching through Froogle, Shopzilla, Amazon, etc. should find you copies.....

What's striking is that the racism that Shatner conveys still resonates as, unfortunately, an effective message even to some of YouTube's viewers....

If you want to fight racism and anti-Semitism today, learn more at the Southern Poverty Law Center's website, http://www.splcenter.org/index.jsp

The snake-like evil and rhetorical cunning embodied by Shatner in this role has been followed up in a more sophisticated way by by the GOP's "Southern Strategy," building on themes first promoted by Gov. George Wallace of Alabama before he recanted his racist pandering. For more on the link between the GOP's current policies and its roots in appealing to white racism, see the essential book, "Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights and Taxes on American Politics" by Thomas and Mary Edsall.

Racism, in a variety of forms, is still alive and well.

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[Eric Hallforde]

@ choff56

Yes, and antisemite, holocaust denier, homophobic, islamophobe etc etc etc

If being called names is enough to shut down those who are prepared to speak out then those people do not have the CONVICTION nor the GUTS to speak on behalf of those who DO. If you believe strongly enough in what you say then meaningless labels will not be enough to quieten you, name calling is the refuge of those who are DISABLED by the truth and those who FEAR the truth getting out.

[CosmoShidan]

Shatner's very talented! A great performance!

[MrCleatsketch]

The stuff he said about the NAACP isn't all wrong. Most of it's founding members were white and Jewish communists or communist sympathizers.

[Pippi Elvesse Bernstein]

If the people of the town had known what words he was saying, they would have lynched Roger Corman, his brother, AND William Shatner! Actually, the Shat and Corman were saying "Go Cardinals!" "Go Tigers"! See Capt. Kirk's new autobiography "Up Till Now". Amazing how they filmed it in 1961 Charleston, Missouri at the site of a "lynch tree", brave!

[macgarp]

Shatner!

[aclearthinker]

WHY?

what scares you when the truth is written?

Who are you to oders others about?

got a godcomplex there bubbie.

you must be a  gew!

[paulparanoid]

shut up.

[paulparanoid]

he's an actor. playing a role. and doing it brilliantly. what part of that don't you understand, moron?

[nocharacter86]

Well I'm half black, half white, half mexican and 3/4 chinese and i find this offensive.

[khbkb]

Hubba Hubba Hubba Hubba! I will be checking for that video where you speak the truth; Muuuwah!

[Eric Hallforde]

As for hiding behind Norse Mythology, I am a 6'2" blonde haired blue eyed 115kg Scandanavian Australian, I dont hide behind anything, I dont have to douchetard, I have the means and the will to back up anything I do and say, so once again, go and fuck yourself...pissant :P

[Eric Hallforde]

Baha you fkn idiot, if you knew me you would know I ALWAYS say whats on my mind in public, for instance I would tell you to go and fuck yourself and hope you would take a swing at me so I could dismantle you on the spot, have a nice day asshat....