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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."