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.
"I have always wished to hear actual spoken Gullah..."
Audio clips - readings from the Gullah translation of the New Testament:
http://linguafranka.net/gullahbible/
(Links are at the bottom of the page.)
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.