Tell Dr. Pappas he can kiss my ass.
"Reissiuing Gone With the Wind with and epilogue?"
Actually, the latest DVD version issued a year or two ago has bonus features, one of which discusses reaction of blacks to the film. It includes a film clip of an interview with Butterfly McQueen who played Prissy ("I don't know 'nothin 'bout birthin babies!"). She was very concerned at the time about the film depicting blacks as stereotypes.
However, here's what she said when she was older:
"Now I am happy I did 'Gone With the Wind.' I wasn't when I was 28, but it's part of black history."
Tell Dr. Pappas he can kiss my ass.
Ironically, Gone with the Wind is one of the most anti-poor Southern white movies ever made. There are frequent references to "white trash" and in the KKK scene (didn't catch that, did you?), the vigilantes clear out a disreputable area, not of Blacks, but of "white trash." As a matter of fact, a Black former slave rescues Scarlett from the "white trash" who are going to rape her.
Just who did those aristocrats think did their fighting for them, huh???