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I have so much respect for Miss Hattie’s memory. I just love seeing her and her movies. “Mr. Rhet you is bad.” it was a popular movie but it was controversial, and that’s a risk. The boycott power of the NAACP was — is — a force to be respected. They got “Amos ‘n Andy” taken off the air, and it was one of the highest rated shows on television. Didn’t matter — they hit the *sponsors* with boycott threats. If they wanted to, they could launch a boycott of the *theaters* showing Gone With the Wind, and force the exhibitors to choose between having that one movie or losing black audiences for years. the naacp banned reruns of amos and andy many years ago. it was funnier than anything on tv now. It’s temporary, they’re going to put it back up with some sort of disclaimer about how it’s a product of its time.
It’s basically what Warner Bros did when they released DVDs of their older cartoons that had some very problematic elements like racial caricatures, they don’t want to hide that these happened but at the same time they’re not going to pretend it wasn’t wrong. As with any film made in a certain decade there are some things that come across very cringeworthy now. That’s just a fact. We can’t undo history. We can only learn from it and do things better. “Gone With The Wind” is an epic film of a lost civilization that would be changed by a devastating civil war that sought to abolish slavery, one of the most atrocious human rights violation. Hattie McDaniel brings depth and humanity to the role of Mammy. She may have been a household slave but she was the heart and soul of the O’Hara household. She was a force to be reckon with and didn’t bow down to anybody. She was anything but weak and inferior.
I don’t agree with her Oscar getting her better roles, or making the careers of other African American film actors better. They were kept in their “place” for many decades. But she was quoted as saying “I’d rather play a maid in a film that be a maid in real life” or words to that effect. Film roles dried up not many years later and she turned to “The Beulah Show” on radio and later on TV.. She couldn’t even attend the premiere of GWTW…
