White folks don't find this film racist? Imagine that...
Can't believe that.
Maybe they WOULD get upset about a fat, orange pedophile trying to be POTUS (Piece of Tanned, Ugly Shit)
Take your meds.
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Intelligent, rational people of all races don't find this film racist. You probably aren't smart enough to imagine that.
shareWhat part of the movie is waycist to you?
shareWhite folks don't find this film racist?
And *you* do? It might actually say a lot more about you to be honest.
I saw this as a child in the theater (a decidedly black child who just went to a Saturday matinee in the early 1960s, but I digress). Personally, I loved that a black man was the star of a movie, a black man that everyone loved, especially the children. Maybe you'd prefer if the kids were terrified of him or the parents would never let a white child near a black man? Would that be less racist?
Most people see the great James Baskett doing what he does so beautifully, but you see racism. This same exact movie would have worked just fine with any great song and dance actor regardless of color. I can imagine Bert Lahr or Jimmy Durante playing this role (both contemporaries of Mr. Baskett) and the movie would have been just as good.
But in some people's mind, showing a happy, well adjusted black man during the reconstruction period of the south who just happened to be friends with white folks is racist.
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Stop making sense.
shareGreat reply. I haven't seen this film in many years--not since I was a child and the movie was still widely available on VHS--but I always try to remember something that was racist about the film I can't do it. I always think to myself, "Wasn't Uncle Remus a GOOD GUY in the film? And weren't the white people respectful of him?
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Uncle Remus was beloved by all (which is problematic according to some because he was a black man in post Civil War America). He told stories of life lessons to the children through song.
Again, this movie wasn't about black people's plight in the postbellum era of the U.S. Any talented song and dance man could have made this movie, even a white one. I honestly however think Baskett was chosen because he was black and it was Disney's way of portraying black people in a positive light in cinema, particularly since most white Americans exposure to blacks in movies was in roles of servitude or even buffoonery. This was 1946 after all.
Uncle Remus was always a black character even before the movie.
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Correct, but the point is that Disney could have adapted the Uncle Remus stories (ironically enough written by a white man) with a white actor, and no one would have said a word back then.
And also ironically, while no one would have barked back then about Disney adapting a white actor to the film in post WWII war America, Disney would have caught flak today for whitewashing Uncle Remus.
Old Walt was screwed either way - the race hustlers get you coming and going. Perhaps the best thing Walt Disney could have done is not done the movie at all.
Perhaps the best thing Walt Disney could have done is not done the movie at all.
I think several of his employees told him that at the time. share
You're dealing with the new racism. White liberals (usually middle-aged women) telling black and brown people what should offend them and what their culture should be.
You gave an example for black people. I'll give one for Central and South Americans - Latinx.
Let me guess the OP is probably white and expect us to feel horrible about being white. Go take your meds.
shareMost African Americans don't find it offensive either. It was based on tales from African American folklore.
shareI’ve never seen this movie but I’ve heard it’s considered problematic.
Anyhow, it’s not available streaming
anywhere but I’d watch it as an historical oddity if I find it.
Really? You never saw this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bWyhj7siEY