Frankly, my dear, I found her unabashed self-interest delicious. Scarlett O'Hara, founding mother of the Me Generation. "It's positively ruined every party this spring! I'm so sick of all this talk about war I could scream!" My parents were still referring to themselves as Negroes, but I was already calling myself black.Īnd yet I was also immersed in the mid-19th century South, where another teen was railing against the preoccupation of her day. Me, I was a 15-year-old in New Haven, Conn. And the Vietnam War was becoming a national obsession. At the time, American cities were erupting into flames as black communities protested decades of police brutality. I first read Gone with the Wind in the summer of 1966. In mourning: Scarlett broods while Rhett Butler (Clark Gable) woos.
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