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I  understand a Cambridge college at Cambridge University chose a theme for its annual ball namely, "Gone with the Wind".

Cambridge college cancels 'racist' Gone With The Wind themed ball - The Guardian, Wednesday March 19, 2014

This is the title of a 1939 film set in the period of the American Civil War. 
For further information click here: "Gone with the Wind" 

In my opinion, with some decisions, the thinking that underlies the decision, is more important than the decision itself. 

Values, attitudes, norms, and mores help to form one's thinking. Thinking patterns will not change on request.  

I believe, if there were no objections, "Gone With The Wind", would have, gone on. 

It is very unlikely issues on race will be a thing of the past any time soon.

Hattie McDaniel, an African-American actress in the 1939 film "Gone with the Wind", played the controversial role of Mammy, the very busy, and ever conversant house slave. For her role she won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, the first African-American actress to do so. In Hattie McDaniel's time, African-Americans experienced extreme racial stereotyping, racial prejudice, and segregation.  


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