Posted 9/4/17 to http://www.chicagonow.com/friendly-curmudgeon/2017/09/gone-with-the-wind-banned-in-memphis-actually-indicts-the-confederacy/
I also enjoyed Gone With the Wind because I like movies that are historical, showing how people lived back then–the housing, costumes, songs, etc. But, I always thought that a four-hour movie was too long. Perhaps it’s already been shown in parts like a mini-series.
As a Black woman, I agree that things have gone too far when we are trying to ban or get rid of everything historical. I also agree that no confederate flags should be flying over any municipal or federal buildings anywhere in the U.S.
However, you can’t study history without including every ethnicity and ideology. This is what makes up our world.
But I don’t have a problem with white peoples’ showing pride for their own history on their personal belongings. Remember, the Dukes of Hazzard–a popular tv show–had their General Lee car. And, remember, the statues were dedicated during a different era.
Since I believe the statues are a part of American history, museums are the places for the statues, etc. dedicated to slavery and prejudice. They should all be given to the Smithsonian system of museums.
Like I saw engraved on a monument to the Jewish holocaust, “If we forget the past, we may fall prey to these evil things again” (paraphrased). But, I suspect that U.S. President No. 45 missed the whole point of protesters being able to protest the statues without getting shot or bludgeoned.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana, 20th century Spanish-American philosopher associated with Pragmatism.
https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Santayana
Written by Rosa L. Griffin
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