Indeed, we are fundamentally saying the same thing about the timing of the announcement assuming the decision was already made and I agree that Disney’s hand wasn’t technically forced into doing this since they had good incentive to just ignore it. However, it does matter whether or not Disney’s idea because if it wasn’t, it would be a spur-of-the-moment concession rather than a calculated decision like you said it was.
I think that’s a reasonable take. Thanks for clarifying.
Tar Baby originated long before even SoTS, but was adopted into a racial slur, although pretty obscure now. However even modern politicians have been called out for using the phrase, even if they meant it differently.
Well, in reality, if you look at the ceiling while on iasm, you do see the 2'x4' tiles as well while you're looking to see if the ceiling AA's are working yet...
I decided to take a photo of it on my last trip. I think it adds a vintage sort of charm to IASW, and gets an excuse imo, because everything on the attraction is paper mache and painted plywood. It was meant to look like a child’s art project.
The history of it goes back before Chandler Harris put it down in Uncle Remus, variation have been found in South Africa, Bahama and other countries. Even the Tar Baby in America had been printed early than Chandler's book with Chandler giving Credit to William Owens as a source of many of the folktales that Chandler put down in Uncle Remus. It really didn't seem to become a racial slur until the early 20th century and prior to that time had the more innocent meaning of a situation where you would only become more involved by doing anything.
Well, there's all that exhaust on the speedway...
When was the romanticisation of plantation life noted? I don't think I remember that happening in the movie. I recall the live action was set on a plantation, it wasn't romanticized it was simply as it would have been after the war assuming it had not be burned down by the union soldiers. Or is that the rub you have that the plantation still existed?
It's worth noting that the film was already understood to be problematic back in 1946, even by reviewers who liked it:
The New Pictures, Nov. 18, 1946 -- Printout -- TIME
Song of the South (Walt Disney-RKO Radio) makes movie actors out of ol' Uncle Remus, Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox and de creeturs an' crawlin' things. Adapted with freehanded skill from the famed...content.time.com
Quoted from the first link:
Ideologically, the picture is certain to land its maker in hot water. Tattered ol' Uncle Remus, who cheerfully "knew his place" in the easygoing world of late 19th Century Georgia (Author Harris, in accepted Southern fashion, always omitted the capital from the word "Negro"), is a character bound to enrage all educated Negroes, and a number of damyankees.
And from the second:
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People expressed regret yesterday over Walt Disney's new production, "Song of the South," on the ground that it is helping to perpetuate the impression of "an idyllic master-slave relationship" in the South. Walter White, executive secretary, in telegrams to newspapers, stated the association recognized the artistic merit of the picture, but added, "It regrets, however, that in an effort neither to offend audiences in the North or South, the production helps to perpetuate a dangerously glorified picture of slavery. Making use of the beautiful Uncle Remus folklore, 'Song of the South' unfortunately gives the impression of an idyllic master-slave relationship which is a distortion of the facts."
It is, I think if people are being honest if it wasn't Jimmy Fallon and was instead say Jon Voight then it wouldn't have matter what the context of him being in blackface was he would have been fired so fast he wouldn't had time to say, "boo". If the conservative were smart they wouldn't let things like this slip they would take a page from the woke handbook and start picketing and protesting every liberal that ever made a mistake just to insure that the slaughtering of careers was fair and balanced.
I added no words to this. How does anyone ever ride Splash Mt and see that Brer Fox refused to get a job? And then also adding because of the simple brute character style of Brer Bear he must also evoke those stereotypes, rather than just be a character trait. Matt apparently sees that as evidence of Brer Bears negative evocation. which is an incredibly racist thing to state.
