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Wind, TCM host Eddie Muller notes Malcolm X s mention of the film in his 1965 autobiography. I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug, the activist wrote. Some intros examine the expectation of who an audience for a film might be in the case of classic movies, producers were thinking almost exclusively of white audiences. It s important to come face-to-face with that uncomfortable idea that what many of us have considered safe is the opposite of that for other people, says TCM host Alicia Malone. One person s safety can be another person s trauma.