From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.

Welcome to the home edition of the treatment. I'm Elvis Mitchell. Since my guest, writer-director, Kevin

Wilmot, was last year with this film,

CSA, Confederate States for America. Still one of my bets for one of the best films of this

century so far. He's going on to approve that early promise by becoming an Academy Award winner

for his latest collaboration, or second to the latest collaboration with Spike Lee, Black

Klansman of last year. My guest, again, Kevin

Wilmot, his newest film is The 24th. Kevin, congratulations. Been a while since you big up,

thank you for dropping by. Thank you for daining to see us. Oh, my pleasure, brother. Always great,

man, to talk to you. Oh, great to talk to you too and this new film the 24th let's just

give a little context and say that in the year in this movie takes place there were five different

race riots and probably on the average of race riot every other year up until that point because

there were so many in any given year could basically

average out to one a year and i just got to wonder if that was one of the the things that made you

think this is something worth doing because we think of race rights as being something from

60s and and kind of the post-automotive revolution and a big city thing. And that wasn't always the case, was it?

No, no, not at all. I think that's a big misnomer that Americans need to know a lot more about

to understand the racial climate we all kind of still live in today. I mean, that period between

1880 or so and almost 1930, I mean, race riots were a common

affair. And I think it's that period that defines our life today probably more than even slavery does in many ways.

Because the thing I think that's important to remember about slavery is that, you know,

African Americans were worth a lot of money.

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