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This video makes it sound like money was not withheld form paychecks for income taxes back in the 40's. Was that hte case? I would love to go back ot that system where everyone had their full paycheck and then got a big bill on March 15th. It would make Americans wake up to the real tax burden in this country.
You could probably make the same case about the Looney Tunes as well! Oh well! They're still funny! Laughed my a** off watching them as a kid, and still do as an adult! Even my kid likes the Looney Tunes! People are way too uptight! As another poster said, people need to lighten up. All of us stereotype to a degree! I'm part German, and part Polish! You don't think I hear the Polish jokes? I laugh! And Hell, I tell them myself! All in good fun! It's all how you approach it.
Don't click the link if you can't handle some swear words. We're talking F-bombs. A few F-bombs actually. Cracked is ummm, yeah, they cuss a lot. Hilarious article though. Some of it, I'd heard before, like Song of the South. Did not know about the Little Mermaid, though.
Speaking of hating....heh. So now that eveyone know's about Disney's sordid past, which one of us is gonna start the picket line first? Down with Disney! Down with Racist Organizations! YEEEeeeeUURRRGHHHH!!!
Almost all the videos have been removed. How come peopel still use stupid Youtube for anything? THey will remove and ban videos at the drop of a hat. Use other video sites people!
Don't click the link if you can't handle some swear words. We're talking F-bombs. A few F-bombs actually. Cracked is ummm, yeah, they cuss a lot. Hilarious article though. Some of it, I'd heard before, like Song of the South. Did not know about the Little Mermaid, though.
Speaking of hating....heh. So now that eveyone know's about Disney's sordid past, which one of us is gonna start the picket line first? Down with Disney! Down with Racist Organizations! YEEEeeeeUURRRGHHHH!!!
"Song of the South" was based on Joel Chandler Harris' "Uncle Remus" stories. They are satire at it's finest dealing with the black/white issues during Reconstruction, and are in no way racist, nor was Harris.
It's like "Huckleberry Finn", which has been called racist because of the use of the N word. In the day it was written, the word was in current usage. Huck Finn is arguably the least racist book ever produced. Go read the passage where Huck decide that he would rather go to hell than betray his friend Jim.
Don't click the link if you can't handle some swear words. We're talking F-bombs. A few F-bombs actually. Cracked is ummm, yeah, they cuss a lot. Hilarious article though. Some of it, I'd heard before, like Song of the South. Did not know about the Little Mermaid, though.
Speaking of hating....heh. So now that eveyone know's about Disney's sordid past, which one of us is gonna start the picket line first? Down with Disney! Down with Racist Organizations! YEEEeeeeUURRRGHHHH!!!
"Song of the South" was a great kid's film. However, it was a product of its time and I would say it IS racist by today's standards. When I saw it in the theaters as a kid, I didn't think anything of it, nor did anyone else- different times.
However, like some of Mark Twain's novels, we must evaluate the time in which a piece was written and evaluate it in that perspective.
and what's so funny is that nobody made a big deal of this mess when we were kids (they should have). disney has probably f**ked my generation up. as a child, you have no idea that you're watching the most overtly racist entertainment that ever made its way into the 80s/90s
does anyone know if the black crows have been edited out of current versions of dumbo, or atleast made more culturally sensitive? i'm going to look that up
I pondered that back in the 90s. I saw it on tv on a New York station and they were gone. Then I saw it on TV again here in DC and they were still there. I guess it depends.
Look, most whites see that or a character like the black maid in Its A Wonderful Life and know the score. We laugh at it, but we are laughing at the absurdity of it. We know its not a fair representation.
I watch a lot of old shows and movies. I have taken to noting when blacks are portrayed seriously. There is a trickle in the 40s, increases in the late 50s and hits a pinnacle in the late 60s/early 70s. Cop shows of that era almost always feature white criminals with blacks being higher up officials or just normal people.
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