Whose shoulder was the bluebird on? Do you remember the Disney Classic “Song of the South”?
Oh, that was Uncle Remus.
Disney committed the heinous crime of looking at the bright side of the life of a Negro in the old South. It never was clear to me whether Uncle Remus was a suffering slave at the time — I would tend to doubt it from his talk. If anything, the Disney effort would humanize the Negro, just as did the “darkies” of Stephen Foster lyrics and the Mark Twain tales of Huckleberry Finn. Talk about being punished for a good deed.