Tomorrow is another racial polemic

Director Spike Lee attempts a remake of "Gone With The Wind", but only gets as far as one scene ...

Scarlett:

Mammy, what should I wear to Ashley's barbeque?

Mammy (played by Spike Lee of course [cause he's reputedly so bad dealing with actresses none of them would do the part]):

You think I should give a mofo hoot what some overprivileged white girl wears to celebrate the continued racist assumptions and practices of a white-dominated society? Hush girl, I'm trying to make a statement about why I, Mammy and film director, am constantly snubbed by the Oscars, why I had to go beg my brothers in the film community for a million or so to finish 'Malcolm X', why the racist eurocentric film industry did not give me the Oscars I so richly deserved, despite the fact that the black community is so disempowered it would rather see 'Booty Call' than my extremely important statements on living in a racist society, and why Uncle Tom actors like Wesley and Samuel L. Jackson would rather sell their brothers and sisters out for whities’ big buck movie contracts than do my undiluted ‘Black to The Future’ films. (There follows a long montage of lynchings, cross-burnings, shots of marchers in Selma being hosed down and ten minutes of Public Enemy singing "Fight The Power.") I keep saying that white filmmakers have no right to employ black actors and that Norman Jewison and Michael Mann are racist thugs for doing 'Ghosts of Mississippi' and 'Ali' without asking my permission to do so, which I would have refused because whites are always screwing up Our History and how dare Will Smith be black without asking me...

Scarlett:

Mammy, I'm sorry, I didn't understand a word of that. Well, I'm off to Ashley's barbeque and then we're going to see 'Meteor Man.'

(She exits. Mammy continues to rant until the obviously white racist eurocentric producers finally close down the film.)

-- Anthony