[Dilbert San Diego]

Uncle Remus was allegedly an obsequious character, and not a positive depiction of a black man.

[NewHampshireDuo]

I bought the DVD of Song of the South figuring it would eventually disappear. Love that movie and Uncle Remus was a great character.

BTW, I have two “original” boxes for Land of Lakes butter. Whenever I purchase sticks of butter, no matter the brand, they go into the old L of L boxes.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Uncle Remus was allegedly an obsequious character, and not a positive depiction of a black man.

Similar to Barack Obama.

[guest7]

"Uncle Remus was allegedly an obsequious character, and not a positive depiction of a black man."

Uncle Remus is a fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales. The folktales were compiled and adapted by Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881.

Harris’s fictionalized storyteller, Uncle Remus, was a “human syndicate” whom he had admittedly “walloped together” from several Black storytellers he had met while working from 1862 to 1866 as a printing compositor on Joseph Addison Turner’s Turnwold Plantation, outside Eatonton, in Putnam County.

James Franklin Baskett portrayed Uncle Remus in the 1946 Disney feature film Song of the South and was given an Honorary Academy Award in 1948 for his portrayal of Remus. Joel Chandler Harris was the creator of the folk character Uncle Remus