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To: HandyDandy

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.


54 posted on 05/30/2018 2:16:23 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yes. You get it. Poor Huck made the soul wrenching fateful decision that if turning Jim in was the right thing to do, then by gum, he’d choose going to hell rather than turn in his friend Jim.


62 posted on 05/30/2018 2:43:43 PM PDT by HandyDandy ("Do you think the rain will hurt the rhubarb?")
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