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These old Disney movies are a little bit like your aging Uncle Frank. Honestly, he means well when he points out that Will Smith is "well-spoken." It's just that he, like the assemblage of clips below, dates from a time when people were unfairly characterized by their ethnic background (the acceptable methods are, of course, religion, geography, sexual preference and income). #9.
The Merchant from Aladdin
The opening musical sequence from the hugely popular 1992 animated film had to be edited due to protest from Arab-American groups for saying about the Middle East what most of us were merely thinking.
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#8.
Sebastian from The Little Mermaid
In this 1989 film, a Jamaican-sounding crab teaches Ariel that life is better "Under the Sea," because underwater you don't have to get a job.
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Up on the shore they work all day
Are we reading too much into it? Do you see anything wrong with how they've drawn "the duke of soul" at 1:57?
Still too subtle? How about at 2:01 when the "blackfish" appears?
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The Crows from Dumbo
In this 1941 classic, Dumbo the flying elephant runs into a band of jive-talking black crows who sing, "I'd be done see'n about everything/when I see an elephant fly!"
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For its time, though, the portrayal of the crows was almost progressive. The crows band together and help Dumbo learn to fly, so they're counted among the heroes of the film. Remember, this was just a couple of years after somebody introduced a bill to outlaw lynching and congress voted it down. So, you know, you take what you can get. #6.
King Louie from The Jungle Book
Having outgrown the crude portrayal of African-Americans as black crows, in 1967 Disney decides to portray them as monkeys instead.
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The Siamese Twin Gang from Chip n' Dale Rescue Rangers
Overt racism against African-Americans was obviously intolerable by the time this Chip n' Dale series began in 1989. Overt racism against Asians, luckily, was still on the table.
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The video becomes cringe-worthy about six minutes in:
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Sunflower the Centaur from Fantasia
Of all the items on this list, this is the one Disney has tried the hardest to make us forget.
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The Indians from Peter Pan
In this charming musical number, the "Red Man" explains his people's history and culture.
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Uncle Remus from Song of the South
The tales of Br'er Rabbit are relayed by kindly old Uncle Remus, a black man happily working on a plantation in the post-Civil War South. Disney has never released this one on home video, for some reason.
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Thursday from Mickey Mouse and the Boy Thursday (Book)
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Some choice quotes: "Well, well." Mickey laughed ... "So I'm supposed to be your governess and nursemaid, and you can't even talk!" Perhaps the most depressing part is that this was somebody's idea of tolerance, back in the ideallic '40s: "Poor little guy! He just makes mistakes. He doesn't know any better. I'll just have to be patient and teach him the right way to do things," said Mickey. If you liked this article, you may also enjoy Ben Joseph's 10 Most Ridiculous Overseas Rip-Offs of American Films. Or, check out Mike Swaim's rundown of some very naked propaganda. |
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... and as long as I am commenting, What the hell is racist about Song Of The South? Black Stereotypes? There are also Whitetrash stereotypes as well.
Blacks portayed as slaves? They were, sadly. But who is the character in the movie with the most smarts? Uncle Remus. Disney Needs to release that movie for home DVD.
Bravo Coconut. Someone is looking to hard for racisim. King Louie is under-evolved, not black. Seems kinda racist to point to an under-evolved character and say "he looks black to me".
Well, Baloo is also a black stereotype. It's not altogether a bad stereotype, though he is lazy.
the monkeys in jungle book arent supposed to be black stereotypes. Baloo sounds just like the monkeys and hes a good guy that saves him. i think that one i way off the mark
Louis Prima is Italian, not black, and also not a chimpanzee trying to act black. The song "I wanna be like you" is about King Louie wanting to be a human. Most of these movies aren't racist int he least bit and aren't trying to be. Yes, the Siamese cats being Chinese is a bit stereotypical... but imagine Beverly Hills Chihuahua, wasn't that yappy dog Mexican?
A couple of things: Yes, you are taking things way overboard with the Little Mermaid one, and the way the Crows talk in Dumbo is the way the black populace talked when the movie was made. I don't see you giving kudos to them for having the obviously black-styled Crows as the heroes of the story in such a racially divided time. Just a bunch of PC crap.
I agree that there were definite, unfortunate incidents of racism on film back then, but it was a different time and black people just had not made it into the mainstream yet. The rest of the country seems to have gotten over it.
And as for Song of the South, the majority of the black community has been behind the push for Disney to release this as a DVD for years. There are petitions all over the net, some of which started by black people, and all signed by a great many black people. You may want to research that, too.
I don't mean to offend here but really, the race card has long worn out its welcome.
Lexy, you're an idiot. I'm from Louisiana, where the movie takes place, and like it or not, princess, THAT is how most black people in LA act and talk, as well as Creoles and many of the Cajuns. We are fine with our culture. Don't like it? Stay the f*ck out! Take that race card from across your eyes and try to see the real world.
Uncle Remus is a respected character of literature, a story teller like Aesop, Queen Scheherazade, and Hans Christian Anderson. It is a shame to lose the African American folklore (recorded by Joel Chandler Harris) that Uncle Remus represents. In fact, suppressing Uncle Remus does a disservice to African Americans and America in general. An important part of history is suppressed. By the way, the NAACP is neutral on the move, neither for or against it. I think the PC police ought to look elsewhere rather than repress our freedom of speech.
Anyone seen previews for the new Disney film The Princess and the Frog? Not only has it taken them this long to create a black princess, but have you see a couple of the sidekicks in the movie? Yeah, go look up some trailers and such and watch out for the crocodile and the firefly. Those two are offensive and I'm a white girl.
Actually, they did release Song of the South on home video. I have it. Funny thing is, my grandma (a black woman from Mississippi) thought it was good.
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What about the racist siamese cat from Aristocats? I would think that would rate pretty high up on the list. He basically acts like an idiot and characterizes every possible stereotype
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The saddest of this entire list is The Song of the South. It is a casualty of political correctness. The Uncle Remus tales are an "African" version of Aesop's Fables. These are relics of the different tribes that were pushed together by slavery. This is how people, who were so oppressed as to be property, were able to transfer their values and culture to their offspring. We have preserved their food (creole and soul food), their music, and yet because the story teller is an example of something we are rightfully ashamed, we don't allow this to enrich our culture. We need to remember all our history. The value of looking at history is remembering the the successes and failures because there is value in both. This is an example of how attempting to hide the ugly, we have lost some beauty.
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