I was born in California but lived in the South three years during the 1970's.I was amazed at the polar opposite way whites and blacks saw the region and its history.You would have thought they were talking about two different universes.
From Mitchell's perspective she was telling the truth about her land of birth.GWTW was her work of art and the book and the film should stay intact.Yet a similiar film made by a black film maker should also be recognized as a legitimate point of view from his or her experiences.
But the only black writers favored today are generally incompetent PC misfits and liars. So the 'black perspective' would be that filtered by Communism, Islam or a Jesse Jackson-leaning 'Protestantism', and a dependency upon assorted wealthy whites of the Dem Party.
Mitchell's work, on the other hand, came from family knowledge and a life in the south not THAT far removed from the old plantation days. Certainly, the perspective of someone honestly oppressed under American slavery would differ on many key points. But are there even the black authors to produce such a work, today, whose words could be believed? Now, on the other hand, if one speaks of those black authors and editorialists who are pilloried by the black left, by the black Dem, then perhaps they could author such a work AND be believed. Perhaps some already have?
One such was named "ROOTS", Another attempt might have been "GLORY"