11/18/2023 0 Comments Zebra cartoon cut outI won't even go into The Wizard of Oz and it's portrayal of little people as singing, dancing cute little Munchkins. Personally, their house didn't look that much dirtier than college frat house. Saying that since they are of diminutive stature that they are no smarter than children and have to be taken care of. They go and slave in a mine all day, then they come home to find a woman has, in essence home invaded them, and is now forcing them to live by her rules of cleanliness and nutrition. I think that little people would have a much greater case about the slavery in Snow White than people of color would have about the slavery in Fantasia. The thing that I find the most amusing is that I have never heard little people complaining about their portrayals in these films, nor of people getting on a soapbox for them. That deep down THEY are racist and all of this bluster is to assuage THEIR guilt. That THEY think of black people as inferior. Maybe it's the people who find it insulting that have the problem. I personally always found him to be the self-educated philosopher, and were my grandparents alive I'm sure they wouldn't find him insulting either. Or maybe it's because Uncle Remus comes off to some people as the silly singing black slave, and they are insulted by it. I find it interesting that the rest of the world is able to see this film, but the people of the US are too, what? Backwards? to understand the deeper meaning. ![]() It would be like removing all artistic and literary references of the Holocaust.Īs a child I loved Song of the South, but due to today's hyper politically correctness Disney is refusing to re-release it in the United States. It's like saying there was never a racial divide in United States and the struggles that minorities have been through were never there. The remaking of cartoons or removal of certain scenes, or the banning of certain books to support today's standards is more insulting to me than the original works themselves. ![]() I can't even imagine what a remake of Gone with the Wind would look like. On the surface you could look at it like that, but if you really take a look at the film and the book all of these people are quite a bit more than what they seem. The characters of Mamie and Prissy would be relegated to dumb negro slave stereotypes. I do not get offended when I watch Gone With the Wind, but I imagine if it were to be analyzed by today's standards Scarlet would be the spoiled psycho boiling Ashley's bunny, Melanie would be the the dumb, trusting girl who is to stupid to know that she is being picked on by the mean girl, and Rhett would be a misogynist, rapist, bastard. Or the day while surfing when someone said to me that they didn't know black people could swim. I was more insulted when a colleague was surprised to find that I spoke three languages, and actually said that she was unaware that someone who had dropped out of college had the intelligence to learn to speak other languages. She was just raised and brought up in a different time. Not because I am too dumb to understand the insult, but because there was no insult intended. Michelle was mortified and constantly apologizing to me about it, but I was never bothered. ![]() Because of her upbringing she constantly called me that lovely colored girl. One of my very best friends was raised by her grandmother who is a tried and true, born in the deep, south southern belle. Maybe it's because intellectually I understand that people are not necessarily being mean when they say things that are not considered politically correct. I understand that many find these images and videos racist, and maybe they are when looked at in this time, but one must remember that in that time political correctness was unheard of, and what we consider racist today wasn't then.Īs a woman of mixed race I can find a numerous examples of racist interpretations in past works of art, fiction, and literature, but all of it should be taken into context as to where the world was during the time that it was made.
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