Dispatches from the Virginia Front
0This was an adaptation I made of a Twitter thread that parodies Ken Burns' "The Civil War" series.
Notes:
*Context: In August 2017, days after a Neo Nazi protester ran over a counter-protester in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a 32-year-old woman, a college student [seen in the video] came to Virginia to protest the ensuing removal of the Robert E. Lee statue in Charlottesville... and was promptly met with a double-middle-finger from a woman... and was then kicked out of school. The rest, as they say, is history.
*The source of this video is from a tweet I produced one Saturday afternoon, here: https://twitter.com/velodus/status/899018562647375872
*I feel compelled to note that I did not write any of the jokes in this video (except for the sign-off) or even come up with the idea to parody this guy in the style of a Sullivan Ballou dispatch. If you read the thread from the link above, you'll see that the video template/jokes/Ashokan Farewell song initially came from the back-and-forth between Michael Stahlke and Adam Rawnsley. Where I came in is that I thought it'd be funny to combine all that into one video, featuring narration, and so I recorded their lines while trying to do it in the spirit of those Burns' documentary readings. The video got thousands of retweets and over a million impressions on Twitter, which surprised the hell out of me. Colin Hanks retweeted it!
*This video even got mentioned in a Washington Post article, which is crazy: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/wp/2017/08/23/he-wore-confederate-dress-to-charlottesville-he-got-two-middle-fingers-and-possible-expulsion-from-college/
*But seriously, credit to Stahlke and Rawnsley for coming up with the idea in the first place. You can/should follow them here (https://twitter.com/MichaelStahlke) and here (https://twitter.com/arawnsley)
*Also, you should watch Ken Burns' "The Civil War" if you haven't already.