Black Lives Matter protests have forced entertainment companies to deal with the appropriateness of past and current productions causing HBO Max to remove the highest grossing film of all time, Gone With the Wind, as its allegations of racism have further risen (Lewis). David O. Selznick’s 1939 film based on Margaret Mitchell’s novel, Gone With the Wind has been accused of whitewashing slavery, romanticizing the treatment of black people, perpetuating harmful racist stereotypes, and ignoring the horrors of slavery (Lewis). Despite its racial and ethnic prejudices, the film has won eight…