The Song of the South (Racial Discrimination)

Song of the South is the movie that Disney would like to forget. Everyone knows the tune Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, but few realize that this "song" is central to this embarrassingly racist celebration of the slave society of the American South prior to the Civil War.

Along with Uncle Remus, the film features such racially charged elements as the story of Br'er Rabbit and the "Tar Baby". Some have defended the latter as a story told by American slaves with its origins in African folk culture. But there is no denying that both the term and the symbolism of the story had intensely racist meaning in the context of the American South.

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