Posted on 03/25/2007 7:43:17 AM PDT by Ellesu
He did.
Wow - I used to have that book as a kid. Brings back some fond memories for me. Thanks for posting the picture.
See! I was right!
Me, too. Was there any controversy surrounding that release? At the time I only read the funny pages.
As luck would have it, I've come across a few of the Brer Rabbit books that Disney put out in the seventies, and always make a point of bringing them home. There is nothing even a bit offensive about them, and my daughter (just shy of six) loves them- I usually end up reading them to her five or six times in the course of a day or two. They are also useful for explaining that not all people speak the language in exactly the way we do.
Whatever the origin of these stories, they seem to have a universal theme.
I've never seen Song of The South (that I can remember- born in '64), but I've always wanted to- and I believe that my girl would love it!
It is the customer service people. The lowest paid in the building.
I am familiar with Jolson's conservatism and with the fact that he campaigned for Harding in 1920.
What do you think I am?
Unfortunately, I know from personal experience that poor whites deeply resent the sympathy showered on Blacks while they either get none are are treates as if they are the rich rapists of the rest of the world. I wish this were not true. If your experience is different, then I thank G-d for it. At any rate, at the risk of sounding like an old-time populist (which I'm not) or maybe Jim Goad, it would please me greatly if poor whites and Blacks joined forces against the limousine liberals who have inherited Ole Massa's tactic of divide-and-conquer.
Anyway the two poor boys respected the black mans authority, it was the effeminately dressed, rich, white boy that drew their hostility, not the blacks.
I'm glad to hear it. It's been so long since I've seen SOTS that I had even forgotten there were poor white children "villains" in it at all. I certainly don't remember all the vagueries of the plot (and having read the original stories by Harris the movie didn't impress me that much to begin with). My apologies for forgetting this detail, and cograts to the makers of the movies for not making the poor white kids into neo-Nazis or something (thought such a thing wasn't done so much in those days anyway).
I still have a complaint that poor whites and/or "rednecks" are often pictured as bullies. I'm a po' buckruh and I was never a bully. I'm personally sick and tired of "poor little rich kids" being picked on by big, bad, mean poor kids.
Yes, this is true! The little Golden Book version of Little Black Sambo that I had as a child portrayed him as an Indian child. The clothes described in the story are found in India. Tigers are also found in India. It has always been frustrating to me that Sambo was thought of as "Negro".
The thing is, liberals want Blacks to be "rednecks" (ie, militantly racialist/race patriotic, anti-intellectual, religious (maybe?), and to butcher the English language with anachronistic dialects of English from various parts of the British Isles. They apparently want poor white kids to be full of self-hatred and shame, and yet highly educated, intellectal, and enlightened. In other words, they want poor white kids to be white liberals while they want Black kids to be WWII Japan-style fascists (WWII Japan-style fascism having buried Soviet-style Communism as what's best for the "oppressed" of the world).
I'm a huge Jolson fan, by the way. He truly was "America's greatest entertainer".
Unfortunately (and I point this out merely because of your conservative Catholicism) Jolson was a Mason, and one reason he endorsed Harding may have been Harding's membership in that organization (though many US Presidents have also been Masons). The Catholic Encyclopedia said that it was under Harding that Masonry reached its all time highest influence in the US.
It's an interesting bit of historical trivia that the old time entertainers were very often Masons and members of other secret fraternities. Other examples of vaudvillian/old time entertainer Masons include the original Amos and Andy (Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll), Bert Williams (a Black man initiated in Scotland, since no white American lodge would have done such a thing back then), Emmett Kelley, and Red Skelton.
The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks started out as a fraternity of actors, btw.
I do believe that is what one of my favorite political pundits, Ann Coulter, attempts to do...:)
Like the one where Porky Pig says "Son of a B---"
Don't be so sure! For every racial/ethnic slur liberals want to outlaw, they want to destigmatize an obscenity (in the name of "free speech," which protects obscenities but not ethnic slurs, because both the suppression of the obscenity and the use of the ethnic slur represent the hegemony of the "guilty" predominant culture).
I think that's supposed to be, "don't know nothin' 'bout Brer Rabbit and de briar patch."
It must have been shown on cable sometime because I have a tape of it that I had recorded on my VCR.
"I'm glad to hear it. It's been so long since I've seen SOTS that I had even forgotten there were poor white children "villains" in it at all. "
I just watched it for the first time since childhood, about 6 or 8 weeks ago, it is a very sweet and wise movie and should be re released.
Another movie you may like is called "The Southerner" made in the 40s, I think of it as closer to my mom's family story than the left wing " The Grapes of Wrath"
While both movies show times of her life, "The Southerner" better captures the noble and decent spirit of her family.
If you haven't read the book "The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats"
by Jim Goad, you should take a look at it.
I'd Like to see Disney Make an updated movie about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, and call it "Song of the Louse", in which those two louts are truly lampooned.
BTW Song of the South is a great movie. I enjoy it, especially the tar baby/briar patch stuff.
VEry well stated. If we lose our fables...we lose a lot.
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