Don Cheadle Teaches Blanche A Lesson About The Confederate Flag In Resurfaced 'Golden Girls' [sic]

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Link to tweet

From https://etcanada.com/news/663104/don-cheadle-teaches-blanche-a-lesson-about-the-confederate-flag-in-resurfaced-golden-girls-clip/

(clip is actually from 'The Golden Palace', longer versions on YouTube)

Don Cheadle Teaches Blanche A Lesson About The Confederate Flag In Resurfaced ‘Golden Girls’ ’[sic] Clip

By AYNSLEE DARMON. 13 hours ago

Don Cheadle is fighting back against racism in a resurfaced clip from an episode of “The Golden Girls”.

In his pre-fame days, the young actor appeared in an episode in which his character confronts Southern belle Blanche (played by Rue McClanahan) about the Confederate flag.

Twitter user Seb Starcevic found the clip and shared it with the platform, pointing out that the “scene feels especially relevant” amid the Black Lives Matter movement.

In the scene, Blanche is seen hanging up a Confederate flag, which its defenders claim denotes Southern pride, while others point out its basis as celebrating slavery as a symbol of white supremacy.

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1. Fascinating and prescient... I admittedly didn't even know about the spinoff, Golden Palace

though I've watched Golden Girls/reruns for decades... Probably like most of the audience I tuned out when Bea Author finished her run on the original series.


There was another good episode in this respect on the original Golden Girls where Blanche is to be "honored" in some southern "heritage" club dinner. Only she isn't when they somehow find out she had a Jewish ancestor. This opens Blanche's eyes to all the hypocrisy. I'm sure the clip may be on youtube.