have to rant on people's ranting about Disney movies

have to rant on people's ranting about Disney movies

Some people might say few parts of Dumbo as racist (the African man saying they work all/work all night/never learn to read&write), the crows (espically the one who is called Jim). One part of the Jungle Book the song about the orangutan (some say allude to African Americans) wanting to be human (since they were seen as non-human). Peter Pan on the other hand I could argue that the "Indians" there was just what the Darling children assumed they looked like according to books (Peter Pan seems to take place around the same time that Mary Poppins set in (double points for both to have similar wording) eg."All this has happened before"=Peter Pan, "Can't put me finger on what lies in store.But I feel what's to happen, all happened before."=Marry Poppins.

Just remember its not Walt himself who was racist/anti-Semitic (he was totally opposite since I read the Sherman brothers were Jews and they said something that Walt had defended them) Another thing is there was an artist who looked there in the 60s who was African-American. Even a Jewish neighbour from Walt's home town Kanas City didn't feel any anti-Semitic and when one of Walt's ADOPTED daughters (yes they both were adopted), Sharon, dated a young Jewish man neither Walt or Lilly raised any problems. The only race Walt could see was human race. Walt Also didn't care about the employees' status in life or how much money they got and told off one of his producers for honking at a gardener. Sure he was anti-Communist but he didn't let that get in the way of work. http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/877357/walt_disney_was_not_racist.html?cat=37
its just the time periods that Walt lived in/grew up in. I'm done with ranting about racism. Now onto mothers not being there,etc I already wrote a blog post on it:

http://celoptra.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/disney-did-not-kill-off-moms-in-their-movies/


and If I think of more ranting to do about the ranting about disney movies. I will continue with this thread.

Honestly I don't know how you can sit here and say the depictions of other races in early Disney wasn't racist. It was a different time then so it was more acceptable, but honestly, you can't pretend it's not.

Wizzlebee wrote:Honestly I don't know how you can sit here and say the depictions of other races in early Disney wasn't racist. It was a different time then so it was more acceptable, but honestly, you can't pretend it's not.

I'm not saying the time wasn't racist. Yes the time WAS racist I just saying WALT wasn't racist.