LA Times article on Disney the "racist"

alphabassettgrrl · 11-24-2009, 08:29 PM

Yeah, I don't think Disney was any more racist than anybody else at the time. Seems at least he tried. Sometimes.

Yeah, I get tired of revisionist history, too. Can't apply today's standards to people living in the past; we can say the standards of the past were unenlightened, or whatever, but we can't fault people for living under them. People frequently didn't know better. A few individuals may be more enlightened than their peers, but for the most part, people are the product of their time.

RStar · 11-25-2009, 08:24 AM

IMHO, Song of the South, in an interesting and intertaining way, showed a taste of the life of African Americans to the extent that it could for the times. If it was more true to life, it would have bombed in the theater. And of course, that wasn't the reason Walt made the movie in the first place.

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