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A very interesting conundrum developed Tuesday when HBO Max decided to temporarily remove the 1939 classic cinematic masterpiece “Gone With the Wind” from its available offerings because the film depicts events that take place during the American South at a time when the region embraced slavery during and immediately following the Civil War.

That conundrum was this: if the film version of “Gone With the Wind” is forever memory-holed, then the accomplishment of Hattie McDaniel, who played Mammy to the very English Vivian Leigh’s Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara, would go down the memory hole as well. And that accomplishment is very much something we as a society would certainly hate to lose. Because McDaniel was the first African-American to win an Oscar. And we won’t even discuss the fact that she was a woman. //

Baseball1969
16 hours ago
Slavery was a European practice and was based on economics
Racism is a different issue. Slavery does not equal racism, if it did then blacks and native Americans would be guilty.
How many of you knew In 1830 there were 3,775 free black people who owned 12,740 black slaves? That’s before the civil war

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vangoghssister Baseball1969
14 hours ago
Not to mention the Africans who sold their brethren to the slave traders.

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Baseball1969 vangoghssister
14 hours ago
Yes. And most went to South America

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If we destroy the history of indignity we lose the reason for correcting historical and institutionalized racism.