“PHONETICALLY SPEAKING” To reflect the fast pace of world news, my blog is probably best served as a stream-of-consciousness text. Fast and unadulterated. With this approach, and on first encounter, text might not seem to scan. This is because I am dyslexic. Instead of keeping the proof-readers busy, I would rather let my blog updates of my visual work stand as a record of my experience of dyslexia, which I am keen that you now get to enjoy too. Unlike some news outlets, I hereby excuse myself the need for a ‘corrections’ section! The excitement of a new language is something I’m quite familiar with, and it is with this ‘joie de vivre’ that I am delighted to guide you through my thought and work processes, more phonetically (than fanatically) speaking.
Hattie Mcdaniel “Cancelled”
Theatre in Memphis cancel Gone With the Wind because of ‘racially insensitive theme’.
This reaction is a child response, to the growing racial division formed by Marxist theory wrapped up in different Trojan horses in the USA.
But if we step back a bit and look at Gone With the Wind, from the great actress, Hattie McDaniel of her time, not only winning an Academy award for her role in the film, she understood the situation she was in and grabbed every opportunity to break those barriers down with good old classic American spirit. One of my favourite quotes
“The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.” ~ Hattie McDaniel.
She also won numerous court cases, most notably the right to buy a house on a White neighbourhood which she successfully won. Without great people like Hattie McDaniel we cannot move forward in making the society better. With all of her activism and the self responsibility which she shows this is why I think the film should never be cancelled just put into context. But that doesn’t match the victimhood of the Marxist narrative, which is a bigger threat to the cause .
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