HBO Removes 'Gone With the Wind, But It Will be Back with "Context"

From the June 11, 2020, Chicago Tribune.

HBO Max has temporarily removed "Gone With the Wind" from its streaming library in order to add historical context to the 1939 film long criticized for romanticizing slavery and the Civil War-era South.

In an op-ed Monday filmmaker John Ridley urged Warner Media to take down "Gone With the Wind," arguing that it "romanticizes the Confederacy in a way that continues to give legitimacy to the notion that the secessionist movement was something more, or better than what it was -- a bloody insurrection to maintain the 'right' to own, sell and buy human beings."

In a statement, AT&T-owned Warner Media, which owns HBO Max, called "Gone With the Wind" a product of its time" that depicts racial prejudices.

The company said that when "Gone With the Wind" returns, it will include 'historical context and a denouncement of those very depictions, but will be presented as it was originally created, because to do otherwise would be the same as claiming these prejudices never existed."

Were all those people who saw the movie in 1939 idiots?  How about everyone who have seen it since?  It is strange how things can change to what they are now.

Sorry BLM.  It Will Come Back and be Shown In Its Original Form.  --Old Secesh