Posted on 08/28/2017 12:04:34 PM PDT by Olog-hai
A Tennessee theater has canceled a long-running screening of “Gone With the Wind” because of racially insensitive content in the classic 1939 film.
Officials at Memphis’ Orpheum Theatre have announced that the film will not be shown during its summer movie series in 2018. Theater president Brett Batterson says in a statement that “the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population.” […]
Batterson tells the Memphis Commercial Appeal a “social media storm” played a role in the decision. …
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Well Hattie McDaniel won’t like this . Not one bit.
The movie was insensitive to white Atlantans, that’s for sure.
I used to think I was just a regular guy, but . . . I was born white, which now, whether I like it or not, makes me a racist;
· I am a fiscal and moral conservative, which by today’s standards, makes me a fascist;
· I am heterosexual, which according to gay folks, now makes me a homophobic;
· I am non-union, which makes me a traitor to the working class and an ally of big business;
· I am a Christian, which now labels me as an infidel;
· I believe in the 2nd Amendment, which now makes me a member of the vast gun lobby;
· I am older than 70, which makes me a useless old man;
· I think and I reason, therefore I doubt much that the main stream media tells me, which must make me a reactionary;
· I am proud of my heritage and our inclusive American culture, which makes me a xenophobe;
· I value my safety and that of my family and I appreciate the police and the legal system, which makes me a right-wing extremist;
· I believe in hard work, fair play, & fair compensation according to each individual’s merits, which today makes me an anti-socialist;
· I believe in the defense and protection of the homeland for and by all citizens, which now makes me a militant;
· Recently, a woman called me and my friends a “basket of Deplorables”;
· Please help me come to terms with the new me...because I’m just not sure who I am anymore!
I would like to thank all my friends for sticking with me through these abrupt, new found changes in my life and my thinking I just can’t imagine or understand what’s happened to me so quickly
Funny...it’s all just taken place over the last 7 or 8 years.
As if all this crap wasn’t enough to deal with,
I’m now afraid to go into any restroom when not at home!.
I don’t know nut’n ‘bout birth’n babies.
LOL. See post 5
Well put.
Well, it’s true, that character was portrayed as an idiot.
But on the other hand, Mammy had it together as much or more as anyone in the movie.
I better hold onto my copy.....it’ll be contraband someday, just like Song of the South!
It will be replaced by “Birth of a Nation” followed by “Triumph of the Will”.....................
Mao weeps a wee tear of joy as Cultural Revolution: American Style takes hold in the USA.
I think that “large segment of its population” would differ with you
This is about “proving” that everything about the USA is racist.
You forgot you are also a climate change denier...
The leftists are doing the same thing the North Korean dictators have been doing for years, trying to wear us down with threats and talk, when all the time they just wanted freebies, and money.
That’s all this is about. They think we’re going to cave and start the giveaways to get them to shut up, and “like us”.
They’re not.
Stop giving a damn what they say, there’s not a shred of evidence that any of it is truth. Their argument for that died with the enactment of Civil Rights. They were given every, single right as whites in that law. But, they’ve sucked on that straw so long, and so hard, the cup is empty, so...somehow...they’ve got to get “refill”, thus, bring in the “guilt whitey” meme and start over.
If any racism still exists, it’s at an individual level, and not a group endeavor...at least from the white side.
The best thing to remember is, “don’t let the bastards wear you down”.
I wonder if blacks are now going to revert back to that “X” for a last name so they’re not using their slave master’s last name; but I guess that won’t work on their EBT cards.
It ain’t fittin. It just ain’t fittin’.
ANTIFA will be coming to Hollywood any day now and torching the studios for the last 100 years of racist material.
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