Comment: ‘Gone with the wind’ is a racist melodrama. Why HBO should still keep it around

A dark film history: A scene from ‘Gone With the Wind’, starring Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara and Hattie McDaniel as house servant/slave Mammy, an archetype role that garnered McDaniel the first Oscar for an African American performer. –MGM/RC

GONE with the wind is gone.

In HBO Max’s contribution to the burgeoning anti-racist movement, the streaming video service has pulled the classic movie temporarily – until the service can make it more woke. Or rather until it can add more woke context.