They hate the “Tar Baby.” They don’t get it at all.
Disney’s first black animator Floyd
Norman has no problems with the
film and doesn’t think Walt was racist.
There’s a book about the controversy
called Who’s Afraid of Song of the
South?
SNL TV’s Funhouse had “Inside the
Disney Vault” that imagined a version
of the film that had Baskett singing
“Zip a dee doo dah, zip a dee ay,
Negroes are inferior in every way”—
again drawing on the Walt is racist
meme.
I have a DVD from something called
SongOfTheSouthOfficial, or something,
taken from a European reissue. A
bonus bit was a short that wasn’t
even from Disney—one of Warner Bros
“Censored 11” called Coal Black and
De Sebben Dwarves”
They could reissue the film and just
put Whoopi on there saying “this was
made in a different time”
Just like Al Jolson in blackface
doing Camptown Races—clip is on
youtube.