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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think it needs to be censored, but I do think it needs critical context, both before reading the book or watching the film.

I believe that AMC still airs the movie (over Thanksgiving?) but with an informative introduction. I hope that newer printings of the book come with a critical foreword.

It would be one thing if GWTW was told from a first-person narrative; it is not. It is told from an omniscient narrator. So it’s not Scarlett saying that watermelon and barbecue are “so dear to Negro hearts,” it is an omniscient narrator. When you consider that the omniscient narrator is racist, that says a lot about the author and about majority culture.

It would be an entirely different critical reading if it were literally just Scarlett’s perspective. But it’s not; the omniscient narrator is racist AF. [/quote]

Saying that the food people like is an insult is disgustingly racist. Observing and respecting what food people like is not.

Demeaning Black people for liking watermelon is white supremacist propaganda.

https://thegrio.com/2022/07/04/i-will-never-be-ashamed-of-eating-watermelon/[/quote]

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