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If i go to huria and select best black blogs. It lists all of th blogs. You can select a category. If you look at the blogs Category is blank. So you can't search by category. I know the links work but the category button does not. So you can't select a category.

I saw a version by drag queens, it was brilliant.

I have to have seen GWTW at least 50 times starting back in 1939 when it actually came out, at which time I was a little girl. But my mother worked at the local movie house so I was able to go and watch pictures for free. I saw it many more times when it was periodically re-released in theaters and then even more times on TV where it still appears regularly. I've also read the massive 1000-page book, twice. It is a classic movie and timeless love story and it has held up well over time. They had to get clearance from the censors for Rhett Butler to utter his famous "I don't give a "damn" line in the end because movies didn't allow profanity back then. There was quite a search to find the actress to play Scarlett OHara . All the young ingenues in Hollywood were vying for this plum role, and there was a lot of indignation when Vivian Leigh landed the part because she was from England. But she was the perfect choice. I never heard anything about Clark Gable being black. He was, of course, one of Hollywood's favorite leading men, a matinee idol who was also perfect for his role in this movie. I also wasn't aware that GWTW was boycotted by the NAACP. I don't know any black person who didn't go and see it whenever it came out all down through the years, attracting new gnerations of fans. Butterfly's famous line in her Prissy role about "not knowin' how to birth no babies" actually became a part of the Black vernacular back in the day, jokingly used by anybody who had misled someone into thinking they could do a certain task. When chided about playing her subservient role, Hattie McDaniel was rumored to have said that she'd rather play a maid than to be one, undoubtedly referring to the affluent life style she lived thanks to her long career in hollywood playing maid roles. GWTW was a movie that was demeaning to black people but I always tolerated this because it was a depiction of the way things were back during slavery times.