Posted on 03/25/2007 7:43:17 AM PDT by Ellesu
When I was growing up - many years ago - the holiday season would bring, on TV, many of the same old movies. One of them was "The Al Jolson Story", about a Jewish singer who stared in the first talkie. In real life, Jolson appeared in black-face. Not surprisingly, he appeared in black-face in the movie. As a result, the movie is never shown, despite the face it is excellent, has great music and acting, and is historically accurate.
Who are the white liberals who decide these things?
Why buy it and contribute to a company which pushes a "gay" child on us in "Ugly Betty" among other perverted propaganda? Download SOTS for free on BigTorrent.
Wow, I have the soundtrack album and a book. I should sell while it's 'hot'!
I found it humorous that Warner Bros. put such a disclaimer on a DVD collection of Speedy Gonzales cartoons. The kids loved them!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedy_Gonzales
I think that Harris patterned Remus after Aesop, who was also a slave. Fact is that human beings can rise above almost any condition. Witness the Italian actor who turned a film about concentration camps into a comedy! And won an Oscar!because it caught the real meaning of Comedy.
South, the word itself when capitalized has racist undertones and is whispered in polite company.
If someone calls you "Southern" he don't mean you're from Antarctica.
Let me axe you a question. Do they ever say "you peoples"?
Plantation workers were never happy, never laughed, and never told stories?
I loved that film too. Starred Larry Parks (I beleive) as Jolson. And the big song of the movie was Jolson's "Mammy."
I've seen the movie, and it is nothing compared to the original, great stories of Joel Chandler Harris (which are even more politically incorrect, since the "n" word is used frequently). I have a copy of a volume of the complete Uncle Remus stories, and they are an absolute treasure and make Song of the South seem absolutely pitiful in comparison.
Harris was a real folklorist as well as a children's author. He was also quite an interesting character . . . born poor and illigitmate, a deathbed convert to Catholicism, and the godfather of Groucho Marx's perennial foil, Margaret Dumont.
The complete Uncle Remus tales includes not merely the tales told by Uncle Remus but also the Gullah tales of Daddy Jake. I have always wished to hear actual spoken Gullah, but I have always had to be content with written transcriptions.
With all its faults and foibles, with all the history of degradation and triumph, this is real AfrAmericana.
As an old Southern Unionist/Republican, I will never forgive the Left for taking the most unique and gifted ethno-cultural community in the United States into an icon of Communism and anti-Americanism. Never.
Whether or not Song is ever re-released, I hope that Harris' actual stories have not been purged in a PC Hitlerian book-burning.
And while I'm on the topic, I also highly recommend the folklore collections of B. A. Botkin.
Which is caused, of course, by the "Nazi" redneck belief that every single human being who has ever lived is descended from a single human couple who were created directly by the Hands of G-d! [/sarcasm]
Seriously, there are people in the "conservative movement" to whom race is the be-all and end-all of everything (::cough:: V-Dare ::cough::), but I don't think they are Biblical fundamenalists!
Actually, there are quite a few... Mostly featuring "stereotypical" black, Japanese and Nazi characters. One of the episodes is called "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap".
i loved this movie... have been trying to get my hands on it for years... Zippity Do-Dah...
" Remus and other black characters' dialogue is full of "ain't nevers," "ain't nobodys," "you tells," and "dem days's."
So they speak better English than today's typical rapper, you mean? ;)"
Excellent point and I too love this movie. It is very warm and entertaining.
"Coal Black and De Sebben Dwarfs" (1943) is on YouTube now. I've always wanted to see it, and now I have.
The tar baby tale is at least 3000 years old and probably is one of the earliest stories since language was invented. Language was invented 40,000 years ago to tell that story.
Pleeeeease don't throw me 'n that thar briar patch!
Remus and other black characters' dialogue is full of "ain't nevers," "ain't nobodys," "you tells," and "dem days's."
So they speak better English than today's typical rapper, you mean? ;)
Hey . . . just remake it with funny, ignorant, silly rednecks instead of Blacks. That'll make it all right, and everyone can laugh at them without it being bigotry! [/sarcasm]
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