Forrest Gump was named after a KKK leader.

Tom Hanks even plays the said ancestor in the movie's homage to "Birth of a Nation". People often brush over the fact that the Sally Field character names him this with pride.

Cheered by both armies for his gallantry on the field of battle

Oh good God I am sick of this woke bullshit.

[quote]She intended his name to be a reminder that "sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense".

[quote]People often brush over the fact that the Sally Field character names him this with pride.

No, she didn't, which is why she said to Forrest that "sometimes we all do things that, well, just don't make no sense". Like riding around in bedsheets, or giving Forrest that name. Gump narrates from a naive point of view, something we the audience are supposed to be intelligent enough to see past. The far-right trolls sponsoring this thread aren't bright enough to realize that the film and its characters aren't lauding NBF or the Klan, that the scene appears openly in the film and isn't the 'gotcha' discovery that the OP seems to think that it is, and that it isn't about "woke" anything (looking at you, R2).

What a lot of people don't know is that NBF repudiated both the Klan and racism at the end of his life. Perhaps Sally Field's character was aware of this when she named her son.

Too little, too late, isn't it though R4?

Well, R5, NBF's late-in-life change doesn't vindicate him for me, but that's immaterial to the Forrest Gump name issue that OP (yet another single-use sock) is trying and failing to generate outrage about.

I know Forrest mentions it in the movie. Nobody is trying to keep it a secret.

Liberal Hollywood strikes again.

All of the replies in this thread from white supremacist pieces of shit don't surprise me.

I was taken aback and then some to realize the lead male character in NBC series I'll Fly Away, Forrest Bedford, played by Sam Waterston, was a direct descendant of the monster who started the KKK. Keeping tradition alive, the elder Bedford son was named Nathan Bedford, played by Jeremy London, who hadn't gone full alkie yet, and was so crushworthy, especially in his wrestling singlet.

Umm we know that. It's explained in the movie. It was part of Southern white culture to name children after Confederate soldiers who were ancestors. The Lost Cause propaganda and romanticism was strong when the movie took place. The movie condemns racism. Forrest's best friend is black and he is sweet and all-loving.

r11 that's no excuse.

which is why we must ban the film, rename landmarks and tear down statues.

R12 Movie shouldn't be banned. Just like Dumbo and Gone With The Wind shouldn't be. We can have discussions on them or put warnings but banning doesn't fix things plus it's disrespectful to the Black talent who were involved. They had little options back then. I find Disney not acknowledging Song of The South disrespect to the talented James Baskett.

But I agree the Confederate statues should be taken down and put in museums. They were constructed between the 1880s and 1940s to scare Black and Northerners into submission. They were terrorist signals not "history". There's Jim Crow and Plantation museums that are used to educate the public.

America needs to be like Germany. Not Japan.

OP, what are we supposed to do with this information?

In the original cut, Forrest said, "Life is like a box of white chocolates."

Tom and Jerry had a Mammy who was voiced by the phenomenal talent Lillian Randolph. Though Mammy was a racist stereotype in ways (spoke in an exaggerated Southern accent, was big, strong and hot-headed, carried dice and a razor in her dress, etc), she had a lively personality, was sensible and funny. MGM tried to censor her by recoloring her white and changing her voice to sound Irish. But eventually they decided to restore the cartoons and redub her voice with Thea Vidale to make her sound less stereotypical. I grew up on the Thea version and I had no idea she was supposed to be a housemaid but instead saw her as the owner of the house and as a smart and sassy female character (very rare at the time in animation where they were always damsels or shrews).

I appreciate MGM didn't erase this character and instead put a disclaimer explaining the historical context and mentioned it would disrespectful to Lillian Randolph to erase her contribution

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