BIG PROBLEMS NEED BIG ESSAYS

and this is a great one by Jeff Yang with a big title: It turns out your favorite movie is racist. What now?

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/16/opinions/gone-with-the-wind-how-to-deal-with-racist-art-yang/index.html

Quotation from the end: <Yes, making movies takes time. But Bland’s script first surfaced in 2017. And „Gone With the Wind“ has been around for 81 years. As Carroll put it to me, „We’ve known this was a problem for eight decades, that there were profoundly offensive things about this movie, not to mention the racist society and culture and institutions around it.“ The question she asked, however rhetorical, says it all: „This was not a pop quiz, America. We had time to study. How could we be scrambling now to put things in place?“>

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