During a distress mayday call on the radio, Jason pulled out the cable to the radio""s antenna, cutting off the transmission.The children argue over who has to do the dishes.Their recently-separated mother (with her back to the table""s conversation), still numb from the loss of the separation and abandonment, turns oward the table, emerges into the light with tears in her eyes and sighs: "He hates Mexico.They called him "Freak show," covered his bald head with a cloth sack to conceal his ugly face, and dragged him onto the dock.The film was based on former North Carolina Baptist minister Rev.Thomas Dixon Jr.""s anti-black, 1905 bigoted melodramatic staged play,The Clansman, the second volume in a trilogy:The Leopard""s Spots: A Romance of the White Man""s Burden, 1865-1900The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux KlanThe TraitorIts release set up a major censorship battle over its vicious, extremist depiction of African Americans, although Griffith naively claimed that he wasn""t racist at the time.