Some say he played Jolson better than Jolson.
Of course he was lip sync-hing Jolson all the way. It was Jolson in the recording studio doing the songs.
Jolson was too old to play himself. But the Swanee runway scene, at a distance, was 100% Jolson.
Posted on 03/25/2007 7:43:17 AM PDT by Ellesu
I have read it. Can't you tell?
Of course I don't agree with it 100% (specifically the obscenities, the Marxist anti-banker, anti-Federalist, pro-IRA, and [especially] anti-Israel bias, as well as his being an atheist, which renders all his causes groundless). But no cracker can read it without feeling exactly the same righteous rage that all members of victimized groups do when awakened for the first time.
DISNEY being the one to spit in the face of political correctness?!? I'll believe that when I see it.
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"Of course I don't agree with it 100% (specifically the obscenities, the Marxist anti-banker, anti-Federalist, pro-IRA, and [especially] anti-Israel bias, as well as his being an atheist, which renders all his causes groundless). But no cracker can read it without feeling exactly the same righteous rage that all members of victimized groups do when awakened for the first time."
I felt the same, I disagreed with him on some things, but there was so much good in it, and it is something of a one of a kind.
Are you sure you don't mean "Green Pastures"?
Absolutely. I wish more people would read it.
The thing is, as a Theonomic Positivist I reject the idea of any morality independent of G-d, and Goad makes it clear (in between all his righteous indignation) that he is an atheist and doesn't know why he's here. The whole problem with the Left is that it doesn't know why we're here but still insists on imposing a non-Theistic moral code on the world.
When I say that the book is anti-Israel, I don't mean it is flagrantly so, but Goad obviously considers the Palestinians (along with the Irish) as victims rather than beneficiaries of political correctness, which requires the Israelis (and the British) to be portrayed as villains. He's also extremely naive to see a connection between the Irish Catholics decimated by Cromwell and the white Protestants of the American Heartland. America's Irish Catholics are an urban historically liberal community and they have historically been quite hostile to the people Goad is championing.
Goad's attacking the fractional reserve banking system while simultaneously advocating the US government "circumvent" the "central bankers" by printing paper money backed by absolutely nothing whatsoever is a bit of stupidity a great many "palaeos" share, for some crazy reason.
You'd better go to the store and have a look at Aunt Jemima she doesn't look the way she used to look. ;)
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Music is awesome from that short...
"Clean Pastures" was a cartoon that parodied "Green Pastures."
Same stereotypes as the other banned cartoons.
Link to "Clean Pastures":
http://www.ifilm.com/video/2714387
"Question: If "Song Of The South" is too offensive to be released, then why are Aunt Jemima's Pancake Mix and Uncle Ben's Rice still being marketed?"
The companies that make those products paid their racism offsets to Je$$e Jack$on, so now their diversity footprint is balanced.
This is the real deal:
Go to www.songofthesouthdvdremastered.com
Some say he played Jolson better than Jolson.
Of course he was lip sync-hing Jolson all the way. It was Jolson in the recording studio doing the songs.
Jolson was too old to play himself. But the Swanee runway scene, at a distance, was 100% Jolson.
Similar things can be said for Kipling's "Just So Stories". I simply explained to my kids that the way people treat race now is a lot better than back then. Just as they were wrong about what they thought of space travel, they were also wrong about other races.
I downloaded a free copy several years ago. I encourage everyone to either do the same or to make their own copies available to others via home produced dvds or via email.
Disney's sat around too long on this. In my opinion, the phrase "use it or lose it" applies here.
"Go to www.songofthesouthdvdremastered.com"
Now THAT'S what I'm TALKIN' 'bout!
I must admit that I was quite amazed that the classic "Aunt Jemima" image survived as long as it did - it was a very stereotypical image of the "happy darky" working as a domestic, or maybe even a slave. It was still in use long after the general public attitudes towards such things had changed. "Uncle Ben" I never thought about as much, maybe because he wasn't as stereotypical looking to me, and I had completely forgotten about Cream of Wheat's "Rastus". In any case, I always just thought of "Rastus" as a chef, no racial connotations particularly, although blacks may have felt otherwise.
I remember reading the Brer Rabbit story in elementary school in the 50's. It was part of the English curriculum. I believe we were told that it was an example of American folk literature.
I'm surprised that Uncle Walt's alleged pedophilia wasn't skewered, too.
It was the cartoon issued during WWII where Bugs mocks the Japanese, who are portrayed as buck-toothed, nearsighted morons.
I've had a bootlegged copy for years, clearly taken from a VHS tape.
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