Posted on 05/31/2023 3:07:45 AM PDT by DallasBiff
“Song of the South” counts among its ensemble Hattie McDaniel, the “Gone With the Wind” star and first Black entertainer to win an Academy Award. In a 1947 interview, she told the American publication The Criterion, “If I had for one moment considered any part of the picture degrading or harmful to my people, I would not have appeared therein.” Her co-star James Baskett echoed her support of the film, saying, “I believe that certain groups are doing my race more harm in seeking to create dissension than can ever possibly come out of the ‘Song of the South.’”
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I enjoyed it when I was a kid.
bkmk
They hate the “Tar Baby.” They don’t get it at all.
I managed to grab a digital copy a few years ago. For posterity sake.
Because it shows the truth, and the left has a need to perpetuate the lie that all slaves were mistreated.
Imagine sometime in the far future when owning a dog is outlawed and deemed horrible. And then imagine a future version of the left trying to sell the lie that all past dog owners chained up and beat their dogs in the past. All information on the truth would have to be suppressed.
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.
The movie shows ordinary people cheerful toward and respectful of each other instead of antagonistic due to race. Worst of all, the primary character who demonstrates such attitudes is a black Southern man.
I bought collections of Looney Tunes for my first grandchild fifteen years ago. They all came with disclaimers from that insufferable racist Whoopi Goldberg even back then. Mel Brooks said years ago that Blazing Saddles could not have been made under these conditions. Most of the humor in that movie is laughing AT the racists.
Go to internet archives and you can download it.
exactly.
Great analogy! Can I steal it?
Many people got their impression of how ALL slaves were treated from Alex Haley’s Roots.
Not SOTS, but I like the crows in Dumbo. They were smart enough to get dumbo to fly
“imagine a future version of the left trying to sell the lie that all past dog owners chained up and beat their dogs in the past.”
Don’t give them any ideas. ;)
“Why does the woke left hate this movie so much?”
Because of the racial harmony portrayed in the film.
Balkanization will eventually give the me the race war, they want. A race war will lead to martial law. Martial law gives them complete power. Power gives them wealth.
Short answer: Power & Money. Money & power.
IIRC, this was set in the postwar south, so the main character was a free man. 8 saw it as a small child and loved the song Zipadeedoodah- race and skin color meant nothing to me, if anything, at the time I had just lost my beloved grandfather and the main character reminded me of him, and the stories reminded me of grandma, who being from southern Missouri had a pretty thick hillbilly accent and was quite a storyteller.
I think the leftist objection was exactly that- they want to perpetuate fear and segregation so they can continue their successful divide-and-conquer strategies. It is their bread and butter. White kids who fell in love with the cartoon wouldn’t be afraid of or hate black people, and would see our commonalities rather than the differences the Democratic Party has for so long worked to stoke, highlight and exploit.
Silly me. I tend to think that owning another human being as a slave is in of and itself “mistreatment”. Just because a slave wasn’t beaten and was fed, clothed and housed to some degree or another, didn’t mean they were not mistreated by the mere fact of being treated as chattel and in a system where a husband and wife and their children could be sold off to different plantation owners, where it was a crime to teach slaves how to read and write.
They are crazy.
I read some little piece on the movie. It was one of the first group of movies that gave a black man a leading role. His career thrived after that movie. Several other blacks made good money for acting, working in supporting roles etc.
I vaguely recall it and don’t remember any demeaning social messages, to the contrary it had many old fashioned wholesome messages, it showed the old south as it used to exist.
A few years ago, while driving through Georgia, we saw several signs encouraging a visit to the Joel Chandler Harris site known as the Uncle Remus Museum… very interesting site:
http://www.uncleremusmuseum.org/
The Left needs to pick targets to polarize populations for the purpose of creating divisions and hate.
The Left is the exact opposite of St. Francis who said, “Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love, Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; And where there is sadness, joy...” The commies sow hate, injury, doubt, despair, and darkness!!!!
Back in the day, The Atlanta Airport had a restaurant with a “Song of the South” theme featuring Uncle Remus:
https://www.sunshineskies.com/atlanta-airport-dobbs-house-uncle-remus.html
Needless to say, the commies got all over that!
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