Disney has just launched an incredible media platform where you can access all of the Disney archives. Wanna see Steamboat Willie which started it all and introduced the world to Mickey Mouse, no problem; Lion King, Toy Story--yep! You can now enjoy it all. They had 30 million subscribers the opening day--so much so that the site crashed. The "experts" were surprised again! They actually didn't expect that right out of the gate which shows their monumental stupidity about the general public. Disney is an ICON. Arguably the biggest icon in the history of show business, beloved by nearly everyone and if not they need serious couch time.
But when you go to watch one of the real classic Disney productions--the early cartoons like Snow White, The Lady and the Tramp, Dumbo, Bambi, etc. There's now a "warning label" or disclaimer on those. Why? Well, back then boys were boys and girls were girls, churches were full, prayer and Bible reading was allowed in school--yes, even public schools. Nativity scenes were expected in the town squares and at city halls and the general public knew there was no such thing as "separation of church and state" in the Constitution. Hollywood was on our side. Walt Disney was considered a racist by some standards because in Dumbo the crows singing about seeing a flying elephant for the first time are black. Forget the fact that crows are, by nature, black--can't confuse liberals with facts--and the singers who voiced the crows were one of the biggest and most popular black group of the era, The Ink Spots. So reduce your IQ several hundred points and think like Al Sharpton--let's see, black birds and a black singing group--DISNEY IS A RACIST!
One of the best movies Disney ever made was Song of the South. It was taken from the world-famous children's classic Uncle Remus Tales put together by Georgia's own Joel Chandler Harris during the slave era. But the NAACP and other early civil rights organizations managed to have the movie banned for decades because it portrayed the slaves as "happy." It was 'racist" they cried and the "black dialect" was stereotyping! Forget the fact that Walt Disney was employing blacks when few other studios would and wasn't using them as under-educated when they could hardly find work in movies elsewhere. The man who played Uncle Remus in the film, James Baskett, was portrayed as exactly that--your favorite uncle. His famous happy song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah won the Academy Award in 1947 for Best Song. I loved Uncle Remus as a child and the fact that he was black never meant a hill of beans.
Walt has to be spinning in his grave over what's happened to his "kingdom." So any of today's "snowflakes" sees some of these Disney classics hopefully they'll be in their "safe space" with their coloring books and comfort animal.But for those of you who live in the real world check out the love, talent and charm of Uncle Remus as he sings an Academy Award winner!