90 Miles From Tyranny : HBO Removes ‘Gone With the Wind’, Erasing First Black Woman to Win an Oscar

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Wednesday, June 10, 2020

HBO Removes ‘Gone With the Wind’, Erasing First Black Woman to Win an Oscar









HBO has caved to the demands of the mob and removed ‘Gone With the Wind’ from its platform, in the process erasing the first black female Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel.

Another massive victory for the “anti-racists”.

“HBO Max said the 1939 film was “a product of its time” and depicted “ethnic and racial prejudices” that “were wrong then and are wrong today,” reports BBC News.

The controversy centers around a depiction of slave characters who are content to stay with their owners after slavery is abolished (something that did happen and is not historically inaccurate).

The film’s removal takes on an added layer of ludicrousness when you consider that in deleting the movie, HBO has also erased the first black female Oscar winner from history.

“These people are certifiably nuts. The first Black woman to win an Oscar was Hattie McDaniel for Gone With The Wind. Now her work is removed from view in the name of being anti racist?” tweeted Robby Starbuck.

HBO Max said it was “irresponsible” to broadcast Gone With the Wind without “an explanation and a denouncement” of its “racist depictions” and that the film would...

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Are they going to also denounce Deadwood, Rome, and Game of Thrones?

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Noor al Haqiqa said...

They will replace Gone With the Wind after they have changed it.

This does not mean they will cut scenes or any such thing. It means that the film will be taking time to point the horrors of slavery then and now as wrong.

What it means is they are distorting the truth and it will become a tiresome exercise in BLM-approved anti-White propaganda. Apparently this treatment is in the works for a LOT of classic pieces of American entertainment.

WDS said...

What @ssholes, they can erase it but it will always be.

I have a copy on DVD so HBO can suck a bag of d*cks.

COME AND TAKE IT