In a related development, Disney Exec Bob Iger decided against releasing Song of the South on DVD.
It is hereby decreed that the digging utensile formerly known as a spade shall henceforth be refered to as a shovel.
That is all.
My mother-in-law got it for me on DVD, from Canada.
We had taken her to Joel Chandler Harris' house, the author of the Uncle Remus stories. And we spoke to the museum staff. The ladies who ran the site were African American, and they said they loved the series and were so pleased that Harris had shared this with the rest of the world.
Harris had learned these tales from African-Americans that he knew, they were fire-side stories told for generations. And he preserved them by writing the children's book.
It is through today's hour glass that they are seen as being racist. But when they were written, no one saw them that way. Harris had stuck closely to the oral tradition and did not change the tales.
Try to explain all of that to Disney, today.