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I’m sure they won’t change it, but this does suggest a strong opinion on the matter from athletes (Plus, the IOC doesn’t want to lose money ?).

Do you go out fast, and then settle into a rhythm; or do you run a consistent pace throughout? I always struggled with my pacing a little bit. I has a tendency to go out slow, and then run consistent, until having way too much left at the finish. I really enjoyed kicking people down in the last 200m.

I think the Crazy Horse Memorial is a damn good reason. Nope, I’ll always be a city boy. I enjoy being in rural areas, especially the mountains, but I’ll always have a special place in my heart for the city.

I ran the 1500m one season in middle school. I don’t have the times for that, but I’d guess high 5mins or low 6mins. I ran 3km and 5km Cross Country in the fall. In the spring, I ran the 3000m and 800m in middle school. I long jumped and high jumped in both middle school and high school. I began triple jumping in high school. I was never any better than average at any of those. I enjoyed competing and training though, so it was worth it. I believe my fastest 5km was a 21:42 at a cross country invitational.

President of the International Olympic Committee, Mr. Heywoodu, Internet Troll 2020 Summer Olympics

Hey, there’s no politics in the Olympic Movement.

You’re killing it man! I’ve been impressed with your times, so cheers from one runner to another

That’s perfectly fine, and a fair solution. I’m just not crying a river about the one’s being rightfully treated either.

Gone With the Wind will be back though. It’s not gone forever. It’s just having a prompt about historical context added to it. The same could/should be done for other films. I’m going to refrain for this discussion further, as it detracts from the more important issues we’re dealing with at the moment.

Delete. This post didn’t accomplish anything outside of partisanship and simple insults (referring to my original post).

That’s censorship and rewriting history! We should march into the streets and demand justice. How dare they try to inform us! ? Honesty, people are way too upset over this. How about you get upset about the institutional racism that led us here in the first place.

Actually it is. If you’re going to make a movie with a false depiction of the time period available, then you should provide a lesson in the greater history of the time period.

Adding a prompt to the description of the movie, or right before it begins, that begins a discussion about the greater historical context of movie doesn’t seem like a bad thing to me. It certainly isn’t censorship. We have put off serious discussions about these topics for generations, and you can see it has affected people.

Like @Agger said, “Gone With the Wind” doesn’t really paint a realistic picture of our history. I did learn the history about our Civil War & Reconstruction Era. However, many incredibly important details are left out of history books. We also don’t spend enough time on discussion of those events in history classes.

That is probably so, but I can’t be happy with myself if I continue to endorse a clearly broken system.

Let me just stress that HBO didn’t banish “Gone With the Wind” from it’s platform. It took it down for the time being, and it will be returned with a prompt that examines and explains the historical context of what is shown/not shown. No one is censoring anything. We should actually be happy that company is being proactive about this issue, and is aiming to educate the populous more on the matter. Again, it’s a little upsetting that people are more upset about a movie being temporarily taken down from a service, than the humans rights abuses that led to company to make that decision.

Right, so maybe we should teach those tourists about the people who fought against slavery, or native leaders, or people who actually came up from the bottom to become successful.

I agree that people should absolutely be looked at from all angles. However, I also understand that we shouldn’t honor people who traded slaves, or killed natives, or fought to keep people enslaved. Its important to remember that even history is political. A lot of us were taught the version of history the state wanted us to know, but they often leave out the parts that make them look bad. “History is written by the victors.” Slaves, natives, and refugees are often overlooked in history because people want to forget the “bad times.”

It’s always interesting the see issues which @heywoodu takes a stand on. So far it’s the destruction of a few statues made for bad people, and the destruction of businesses that have profited off marginalized communities.

I love how fatalistic y’all are. It really cracks me up sometimes. We’re still going to have criminal justice. We’re still going to have some type policing. We’re just remodeling the way we think about all of that. I don’t think we’ll dissolve into a lawless nation.

This is absolutely true. Some people want to pretend it didn’t happen, and others want it taught more in school.

Statues aren’t history. I don’t know when people started thinking that, but it just simply isn’t all that true. I don’t visit a statue to learn history; I visit a statue to honor the person it’s of. We shouldn’t have statues of people who killed thousands of natives, traded thousands of slavers for profit, fought to keep slavery as an institution, etc. In the 21st century we should have advanced far enough as a society to realize what these people did was incredibly wrong.

It will be returned soon, but it will have an explanation of historical context accompanying it now.

Not a Democrat anymore, not my problem