Turns out your favorite movie is racist. What now?

Last week, novelist, director and television writer John Ridley — an Academy Award winner for his screenplay for the movie “12 Years a Slave” — wrote a brief but compelling op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, asking HBO (a sister company of CNN under the ownership of WarnerMedia) to take the movie “Gone With the Wind” off of its much-hyped new streaming platform HBO Max.

Last week, novelist, director and television writer John Ridley — an Academy Award winner for his screenplay for the movie “12 Years a Slave” — wrote a brief but compelling op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, asking HBO (a sister company of CNN under the ownership of WarnerMedia) to take the movie “Gone With the Wind” off of its much-hyped new streaming platform HBO Max.