There is a reason they replaced the tar baby scene in the movie with Brer Rabbit getting covered with sticky honey in Splash Mountain...they really changed a lot from movie to ride (including the character's voices...some of them aren't even close).
First of all, I must correct myself on something I said in my last post. The movie did not take place in the "Old South", as I remembered that they were driving automobiles in this movie. I guess I should say the original stories took place in the old south and Disney (in 1946) put them in a more modern setting.
As for the above quote, I saw nothing wrong with the tar baby scene. So Brer Fox and Brer Bear made a baby out of a sticky substance (in this case, tar) in order to trap Brer Rabbit. Big freakin' deal. Just another example of hyper-sensitive people just looking anywhere they can to cry racism over and, frankly, I'm sick and bloody tired of it.
And just to add to my previous point about Uncle Remus being "subservient". Like I said, I really saw nothing in this movie to indicate him being "subservient". Quite the opposite. I noticed that he seemed to be quite highly respected, not just by the black maid lady, but also the child's father and mother, as well as his Grandmother. I got the impression that he was somewhat revered and very much respected and was able to "get away" with things that others might not get away with in regards to the boy. This is evidenced by his statement to the other boys to just tell the mother and grandmother that the boy is "with me", as if he knew that he was respected enough that this should be okay. Then, after the Grandmother basically told him to "butt out" (my words not hers) at one point, in regards to the way they deal with the boy, as Uncle Remus left he asked if she was mad at him and she replied something to the extent of "of course not". The only "subservience" I saw was him, as a non-family member, knowing that he has to back off and respect the wishes of the mother and the grandmother in regards to what kind of things he teaches the boy. If one of them told him not to do something where the boy was concerned, he replied "Yes mam" and honored their wishes. This isn't black man being subservient to white person, it is one person respecting the parental rights of another over a child.
If people would stop looking for every excuse in the world to cry racism, this sure would be a much better place to live. :brick: