Posted on 06/09/2020 8:46:54 PM PDT by Stravinsky
Gone With the Wind, the Civil War epic considered a classic of American cinema, has been pulled from HBO Max.
The move comes as media companies reappraise content in light of nationwide protests over police brutality and systemic racism after the death of George Floyd, a Black man killed by Minnesota police. Earlier on Tuesday, Paramount Network cancelled the long-running police reality show Cops.
Long considered controversial for its depiction of Black people and its rose tinted view of slavery, Gone With the Wind faced renewed scrutiny after an op-ed by 12 Years A Slave screenwriter John Ridley published in the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday. In the op-ed, Ridley called on HBO Max to "consider removing" Gone With the Wind from its platform as the film had its "own unique problem." "It doesn’t just “fall short” with regard to representation. It is a film that glorifies the antebellum south. It is a film that, when it is not ignoring the horrors of slavery, pauses only to perpetuate some of the most painful stereotypes of people of color," Ridley wrote.
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Sounds like they should take away the Oscar won by Hattie McDaniel for her performance in Gone With the Wind.
they can take all the monuments down they want..all the movies they want...still doesnt fix their problems. Learn to talk properly, go to school, quit resisting arrest...stop glorifying criminals..i could go on and on...in the 70’s, i went to a half black half white high school in Detroit....theyve taken a gigantic step backwards from the blacks i knew then...really sad.
In Pittsburgh the PC morons REMOVED a Statue of Stephen Foster. They said it was because a bucolic side character who is holding a sheaf of wheat and a sickle “looked like a slave negro” (it didn’t and they are full of shite)
The first real American songwriter of his time, who sold his song catalogue to Mr.Christy for his traveling minstrel show- in 1850, for $25,000, and who died of an infection, penniless in a run down hotel in Bellevue, NYC.
An American icon: The Old Folks at Home, My Olde Kentucky Home, Angelina Baker (a loving song about a slave romance that was not to be when the girl is sold off without any notice-incredibly progressive song for 1850), Beautiful Dreamer, Jeanie With the Light Brown Hair, Oh Susanna!, and the incomparable heartfelt song to starving waifs- “Hard Times Come Again No More”.
Stephen Foster was BORN in Pittsburgh, and the a@@holes tore down a monument to their native son. Maybe they’ll put up one for MC Hammer or Jay-Z.
I do...*if* it’s a free preview weekend.
Might find 3, maybe 4 movies I can sit through.
The rest is crap.
STARZ is better but I recently found EPIX which beats them all.
“As god is my witness... I’ll never believe anything from CNN’s marketeers again!”
Someday the left will regret this....Their “classics” will be censored....
The only reason any form of “revolution” continues is because MAJOR FOOLS ARE PANDERING TO IT....
The first civil war never happened.
There, that will fix things.
Jeopardy yesterday final “Of what film opening was MLK part of the choir?”
I saw that too. He was 10 years old at the time and sang at Atlanta premiere
What Civil War????
I just don’t understand the Song of the South thing. Does a happy black man in the South offend them that much.
Their MARXIST revolution continues...
No. It was the Tar Baby.
Let me get this right...Hattie McDaniel not okay...”Car Wash,” and blaxploitation films, okay.
Hubby and I just saw an interesting old movie with an all black cast on TCM (I believe it was 'Stormy Weather' with Lena Horne). One or two of the black cast members were in blackface makeup when doing an on-stage performance in the movie. Yeah, I'm still confused over that, lol.
The TCM commentators provide historical explanations (and offer some opinions) about how blackface and themes in movies like 'Birth of a Nation', etc. originated, which is far better than banning these movies outright, IMO.
With that stroke he was as absent as Biden is now.
I've always relied on the hostility and stupidity of strangers.
Interesting fact: Stephen Foster was born on America’s 50th birthday July 4, 1826, the same day Thomas Jefferson and John Adams died.
Thou hast triumphed, O pale snowflake. The world has grown gray from thy breath.
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