Posted on 03/25/2007 7:43:17 AM PDT by Ellesu
Aunt Jemima has been recast as the wise and knowledgeable family Aunt, appearing slender, well-dressed and well-coifed as if she just came home from church, looking like an all-knowing family member standing over your shoulder in the kitchen.
Kudos to the company for remaking her image into something that speaks to "today".
I first read Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer when I was in 7th grade. I did it on my own, and didn't need anyone to explain that "nigger" was a bad, derogatory word. I already knew that from my upbringing. It made me realize how much society has changed, and better understand Mark Twain's points about Jim being human, and not a label.
If kids don't know that blind bigotry is bad by high school, they never will. It isn't as if some three paragraph introduction to the text is going to make a lightbulb click on in a 11th grader's head: "Oh, gee! Calling people derogatory racist names is wrong! I never realized that!".
Peaking of un-PC things, I remember in the 50's eating licorice candies called "N----- Babies". They were made in the shape of little black bears. I also remember the kids discussing the name, wondering whoever gave it that kind of name, since even in the 50's, the culture was telling us not to use the "N" word.
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But it's racist... we should destroy all free speech to protect the minorities... that way they can all get along like the blacks and Mexicans in Los Angeles.... they have such a good understanding and respect for one another. And we can spread this respect through out the world by surpressing free speech... the liberal way.
Whoops, never mind. I got it to work.
Ditto on your comment. The way I was brought up, using the word "nigger" at home would have gotten me some unwanted disciplinary attention. I read Huck Finn at a similar age and had no problem understanding that it was written in, and about, a different time and place, and that Huck did not use it in a derogatory fashion even so.
"Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips," currently available on YouTube (interestingly, uploaded by a Guilt-Ridden Anti-American American).
Personally, I've never understood why the anti-racist position coincides with the triumph of evolutionism. Certainly people who actually, truly believe that every single human being who has ever lived is descended from Adam and Eve can say (as did Thomas Dixon Jr., author of The Clansman [which became the basis of the film The Birth of a Nation]) that Blacks can never be equal to whites because of thousands of years separating the "social evolution" of the two. Yet Dixon was a Baptist minister (or was for a while, anyway) while people who insist that people are animals who are at various stages of development are crusaders for brotherhood. That has never made any sense to me, and it doesn't make any sense now.
I like Kipling's Mowgli stories as well. Mowgli is actually a superior character to Burroughs' Tarzan.
Someone who feels guilty that we won World War II???
Must be one of the people who's posted all those tributes to Mussolini.
Oh, silly me, I forgot! The Eurpean phase of WWII was good because we were fighting "us!" It's only the Pacific phase that was bad because we were fighting "the other!"
So why can't the Japanese kill whales? Aren't they "indigenous pipples?"
Probably. Or the poster is utterly ignorant of 20th Century world history. How else to interpret this:
"Rare offensive cartoon made by Merrie Melodies starring Bugs Bunny. Titled "Bugs Bunny Nips The Nips". And America wonders why the rest of the world hates them..."
Oh yeah? So how come he ain't got no town named "Mowgliana"?
Wow 24hrs and its already ben taken off Youtube!
Check this out, Looks as Close to Authentic
www.songofthesouthdvdremastered.com
Splash Mountain, IIRC. There's also a parade float featuring those characters (sans Uncle Remus, o' course) in the Magic Kingdom.
FWIW, Song of the South *was* released by Disney on DVD - in the U.K. That's where most of the bootleg copies originated.
Nope, not really. In the mid-eighties, we were still "circling the drain" of political correctness and had not yet been pulled under.
Another example of entertainment from that period is Eddie Murphy's HBO stand-up comedy specials (complete with "faggot" jokes). By 1990, that stuff was conspicuous in its absence (particularly from comedy routines).
There is nothing wrong with the movie.
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As you say, Uncle Remus is the hero without a doubt. It takes a twisted mind to see this movie as demeaning to black people. I was born during WWII and grew up in South Carolina within ten miles of the location of the first secession meeting, this movie made me feel deprived because as a small boy I didn't have an Uncle Remus to tell me tales.
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