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NEGRO PASTOR OBJECTS TO MOVIE[Madison, Jan. 29:—I wish to use this opportunity to express my disapproval of the motion picture, Gone With the Wind, soon to be shown in this city.I have not seen the film personally, bat a perusal of the book, plus the reviews that I have read of the picture itself, convince me that it is unfair i tc the Negro people.It portrays as ' had” those Negroes who were willing to struggle for their freedom, and as ‘'good'' those who knew their place” and refused liberty. Its glorification of the southern slave-holders is of course totally untrue to history.A false version of Sherman's march to the sea” is also presented. According to Confederate newspapers of the time, the Union soldiers werewell-conducted.The technique used to misrepresent the Negro of the Civil war period Is particularly vicious ana ■ slanderous, it consists of implying that those Ne-; groes who took a vigorous stand against the slave ! system were mcan-hcarted rogues, and that the typical spirit was exemplified by the few of the Mammy” and Big Sam type who were backward enough to disapprove of the EmancipationProclamation.The praise bestowed upon the Klu Klux Klan,1 an organization considerably responsible for the repression, poverty, and ignorance all too typical of even the present-day South is something too contemptible for ar.y true American to stomach.The artistic talents of Hollywood could be used for better purposes than slandering a people which even now is fighting against the heavy legacy of economic and cultural oppression bequeathed to us by the slave economy of the old south.—Rev. rt R Donaldson. Pastor, Nrrro Baptist Church.
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Madison Capital Times
Madison, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Jan 31, 1940
Page 20
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