Try Reading Books Instead of Burning them

Related to our previous post on Gone With the Wind, the mighty John Nolte, just returned to Breitbart (PBUH) notes this:

And then there is our corrupt national media that plays right along with the new book burners. Did you know, for instance, that 73% of black people rank Gone With the Wind as a good/very good movie? That is only 14 points lower than whites. Our media would never tell you that. Doesn’t fit the narrative.

Wow, turns out black people aren't overly sensitive children. Who knew?

Being Jewish, one occasionally stumbles on to something in a movie that seems motivated by judenhaus.

Our favorite western ever, the Searchers, has a ruddy, backstabbing, money grubbing shopkeeper named Futterman.  Of course there's always Shakespeare's Rosenkrantz and Gildenstern. We shrug and move on.

We suspect most blacks do the same.

How long before lefty book burners ban World War Two movies because the Marines say 'Jap'?

We really can't say things any better than Dr. Jones:

Gone with the Problematic

So a famous theater that shows Gone with the Wind will no longer be showing Gone with the Wind.

In truth the film is pretty 'problematic' as the communists say. In fact, Gone with the Wind is racist as hell. Its filled with black stereotypes too numerous to list here.

It doesn't matter.

Of course you'll see the same in any 'blacksploitation' sit-com,

This film is a work of art, one of the ten greatest films ever made.

For my money we don't think Gone with the Wind glorifies the old South. It treats the South more with irony as it opens with Scarlet flirting with two suitors. Later all the little bells have to retire upstairs for their afternoon nap while being fanned by slave girls. In truth, all those darling little belles lying around in their pantaloons is kinda hot.

[Really? Perv -Ed]

Two things about the slaves. First, after the war we see Scarlet lost in the woods. She finds a freedman's camp and a couple of her father's former slaves. She is relived to see them.

Second, and most obviously is Mammy. Actress Hattie McDaniel won an Oscar for her performance, and rightfully so. Notice throughout the movie Hattie bosses Scarlet around and Scarlet acts like a child.

There's also a great line from Rhett where he says Hattie is the only person whose respect he ever wanted.

So don't show a great film, jerks. Gone with the Wind is more complicated than you think, and certainly more complicated than you.