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

What Next? John Wayne, Teddy Roosevelt, "Gone With the Wind" and Walt Disney Under the Gun. Jeff Davis Peak in California Gets New Name

JULY 10, 2020


**  Peter Bart:  Will Hollywood icons topple like Confederate statues in  current cancel culture?  Now attention is shift to airports (John Wayne) ,statues (Teddy Roosevelt and movies ("Gone With the Wind."  Logos might be next, like Walt Disney.

**  Jeff Davis Peak ditches Confederate namesake, officials say.  Here's what it will be called.  (California near Lake Tahoe.  It will now be called Da-ek Dow Go-et Mountain.  The former name was much easier to say.)

**  Slanted American history has  skewed our vision.  We can relearn.

**  Statue to tennis star Arthur Ashe to stay put in Richmond.  (Arthur Ashe was a hero and accomplished great feats in tennis, but, if the Confederate statues come down on Monument Avenue, his should be moved elsewhere.   I'd hate to see it disrespected with "vandalism" like the other statues were.)

**  Top US officer says military split on bases named after Confederate generals.

--Old Secesh

Cobb County, Ga., Reaches Compromise on New Park Name-- Part 2:

The compromise was reached Tuesday and the 102-acre park will be named Discovery Park at the River Line.

My problem with the compromise name is that it doesn't say anything about the Civil War, which was the nod to River Line.  Perhaps calling it the Civil War River Line or Defensive River Line would have been better.

It is being developed by  using $1 million from a special one percent sales tax.

Residents of the area originally wanted it named Mapleton Discovery Park, after the surrounding area in Mapleton off Discovery Boulevard.  They said the name was inclusive of the diverse community in which the park is located.

But some historic preservationists wanted the name to include a reference to Johnston's River Line.  The River Line was a series of fortifications built partly by impressed slave labor.  If you remember the scene in "Gone With the Wind" when Scarlett saw some of Tara's slaves marching through Atlanta on their way to build defenses, this would be what it was about.

--Old Secesh