Posted on 05/31/2023 3:07:45 AM PDT by DallasBiff
“Song of the South” counts among its ensemble Hattie McDaniel, the “Gone With the Wind” star and first Black entertainer to win an Academy Award. In a 1947 interview, she told the American publication The Criterion, “If I had for one moment considered any part of the picture degrading or harmful to my people, I would not have appeared therein.” Her co-star James Baskett echoed her support of the film, saying, “I believe that certain groups are doing my race more harm in seeking to create dissension than can ever possibly come out of the ‘Song of the South.’”
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It bears mentioning that Hattie McDaniel was not able to attend the premier opening of GWTW in Atlanta because it was held at a “whites only” theater. Clark Gable a friend of McDaniel threatened to boycott the Atlanta premiere unless McDaniel was allowed to attend, but McDaniel convinced him to attend anyway.
And even as an Academy Award nominee, she could not sit at the same table as her GWTW co-stars at the Academy Awards but had to sit at a small table off to the side and near the back of the room. She was also not allowed to attend an after party with her co-stars held at a hotel because it was “whites only”.
McDaniel shortly before her death wished to be buried in Hollywood Cemetery but couldn’t because at the time of her death in 1952, it was still “whites only”.
There was a lot of injustice in the South after 1877 and before 1956. But not all whites were Klansmen or subscribed to white supremacy. There were decent people, both black and white.
During this period, the South, with few exceptions, was a one party Democrat region.
Also this will make your head explode wokie, Aunt Jemimah made a lot of money and gave a lot to good causes.
During the first “Great Depression” the Library of Congress created a vast collection of interviews with surviving slaves. It is mostly written with a good number of filmed and audio recordings. They used to be available on the net.
Many of them recalled slavery in a totally different light from what is portrayed in todays media and education.
Have no idea if it has already been done.
Do mean it was like working for a big company or government to controls your life?
I have an original LP of the movie. My parents bought it for me as a kid. I kind of liked it and really never thought about black and white. He was just a wise old guy.
Bans are a thing now a-days. Books all over the place, movies and anything else the wacky decides. This will pass.
Ding! The Left....let’s face it....is and has long been dominated by the Northeastern Establishment (think Ivy League). These are Yankees. They H.A.T.E. the South and Southerners and always have. They simply cannot bear the idea that life in the South or that race relations were marked by anything other than cruelty and unremitting hatred. That blows up their entire narrative about the South and could even spill over into politics with Blacks not being nearly so beholden to the Democrat Party. That, they must oppose with full force.
So anything that cuts against their narrative will be demonized to the hilt.
I purchased a copy of “Blazing Saddles” before it is banned.
The only reasons I can think of that the woke Left is so incensed by it are ignorance and stupidity.
Ignorance because I doubt they have seen it, and stupidity, because if they did see it, they didn’t understand it.
The movie is brilliantly anti-racist. Mel Brooks explicitly made it that way. All the actors in it understood it was made that way.
The blacks in the movie are thoughtful, funny, and talented. The whites in the movie are racist, stupid, inept.
And, as Mel Brooks says in interviews about it, one of the best ways to combat racism is to ridicule it. Leftists are too dumb to get it.
Joel Chandler Harris is spinning in his grave.
Same here. Watched it just a few weeks ago. Great movie and nothing RACIS about it.
Well, it has a couple of black stars that are off the liberal plantation. The liberals think that they need to be caught, returned to the plantation, whipped and required to tell their massa how glad they are to be back on his plantation. Oh, yes. And that they will never leave massa’s dear ol’ plantation again.
I still sing zippidy do da out in the garage like an outlaw
I whistle “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”, and “For a Few Dollars More”, and “Fist Full of Dollars”.
You need the spaghetti western channel like my Roku has lol
I bought a DVD online of this movie several years ago ... I’m not sure where I purchased it, but the transfer was very clean and enjoyable ...
This ban has been in place since VHS tapes began to fade out in favor of DVDs, so, late 1980s or early '90s. IIRC, Disney released SOTS on DVD, but only foreign markets... Japan, the U.K. - never released it in the U.S. in the post-videotape formats, AFAIK. Most of the bootleg copies around today are copies of those foreign market DVDs. This particular ban pre-dates the "woke" by many years; I view it as more a part of the same censorship move that saw a number of old Warner Brothers cartoons dropped from catalogs. The early days of "political correctness" were a precursor to this woke crap.
BTW, in the original Pixar "Cars" movie, the animators snuck in a SOTS reference. The opening race scene took place at "Speedway of the South, with lettering on the track wall that mimics the intro title design used in the older film.
I bought a dvd of it, and mine seems like someone copied it by placing a camera in front of a grainy TV somewhere>
Ughhh
But I have it
Care to share it?
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