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In Defense of “Song of the South”

Tuesday, 16 May 2023, 0:30 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 18

John Nolte at Breitbart

Overall, Song of the South (like its source material) is about healing the rift between black and white America and does so in racially progressive ways unheard of in 1946.

Despite this fact, due to thin-skinned and wildly misinformed criticism, Disney has blacklisted Song of the South since 1986—the last time it enjoyed a theatrical release. What’s more, the movie’s never been released on home video in America. Not even on laserdisc or Betamax.

Trust me; there’s no moral justification for this. More

18 Comments on In Defense of “Song of the South”

  1. There is no more “Splash Mountain” at the Magic Kingdom and no more “Maelstrom” Viking boat ride at Epcot. Now they are “Tiana’s Bayou” and “Frozen” respectively. Future generations will never know the joys.

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  3. Around 1981, I had a first date with a sweet, young girl (of course I was young back then too) and we went to see a movie. The movie we planned to see was sold out and most of the other movies available were nothing we wanted to see. She had seen “Song of the South” as a child while I never had. She liked it and said she would be happy to see it again and thought that I would enjoy it as well since I had never seen it.

    There was nothing about the movie that was offensive to me (nor should it be to anyone with a common sense view of history). It reflected a simpler time and place and we both enjoyed our first date watching a children’s movie. I thought it was quite good mixing the animated characters with real people and really enjoyed the whole experience. I honestly don’t see why anyone with any sense would be offended by such a wholesome movie.

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  4. Speaking of “Song of the South,” whatever happened to Boobie, the Rocket Dog?

    Not trying to start any shit, though – he offered “Song of the South” to any iOTW commenter (it wasn’t iOTWReport in those days). I didn’t avail myself at the time, but, gee, now I’d like to have a copy.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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  6. been a Walt fan almost 80 years; wife and I had “Deluxe” AP for decades.

    LITTLE HIsTORY ON WALT AND DIS

    Walt was not loved by many stockholders nor by Roy.

    Roy was against building what has been BY FAR the most profitable part of DIS. DISNEYLAND. Roy said if DIS sold bonds to build DISNEYLAND DIS would crash. Walt had to form 3 seperate ptnrshp/corps to build DISNEYLand. To do so he had to sell his polo pony farm (Walt; like ‘Ronny, was a big polo player. Had several dozen ponies.) And mortgage his “house” ( to me a mansion)to fund them.
    DISNEYLAND was a giant success from day 1(7/15/55. My wife as a 5th grader was there. I lived in NoCal and did not know her then.) had 600% attendance predicted by press and double Walt’s forecast!
    Walt told us over 100 times from ’55 to ’66 “Disneyland makes more
    profit every month than the rest of DIS makes in a good year!”

    Walt died in ’66

    in ’84 Roy led an anti Walt putsch. Eisner was installed as CEO.

    Next year Mike tried to erase Walt by closing Walt’s favorite attractiopn “Tiki Room”. ( Leftists have tried to “rewrite” history saying Walt liked other; My wife and i can attest Walt loved Tiki!) Several Walt loving VPs and may “imagineers” protested and said they’d openly strike if TIKI was shut down. So they compromised TIKI was cut in half; from 45minto 22 min. and the related attraction, next door, was losed.

    The DIS that “blacklisted”SONG WAS N QNTI WLT dis! The Bord and Mgmt to this day is anti Walt!
    As is Roy’s granddaughter; not on the Board.

    Mentioned many times that DIS spent 6 yers to lose $xx,xxx,xxx on an anti Walt Movie ALAMO; 30 years ago. One reason it was years in the making was many actors said no after reading script which was clearly a smear of Walt and Davy!

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  7. ADDENDUM

    The whole world knew by Aug ’55 DISNEYLAND was a gigantic success!

    Disingenuous stock brokers were selling DIS stock to “low info” investors saying it owned DISNEYLAND. Roy said if those investors find out DIS is not THE OWNER we could face big court problems. he made WAlt sell his prtnrshps/corp to DIS.
    THEY WERE BROTHERS; BUT DID NOT ALWAYS AGREE.

    My brother has called me “bad names” on occasion.
    But after i go I do not think he will do to me what Roy did to Walt.

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  10. I was fortunate enough to take my 5-year-old son to see Song of the South when it was last shown on theater screens in 1987. There is nothing offensive about SOTS, Disney had shown it on The Wonderful World of Color back in the 60’s, I remember watching it then, of course we saw it in B&W since all we had was an old Westinghouse B&W TV back then. There is also nothing racist about the black crows in Dumbo as well, stereotypical yes but it wasn’t racist any more than Amos and Andy were. My dad loved Amos and Andy on the radio back in the 40’s and 50’s.

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  16. I was in a movie house near Detroit when “Song of the South” was playing. I was astonished at the number of old Black couples going in to see it.

    “I gonna knock his he-ad clean off!”
    “Please don’t thow me in the brayer patch!”

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  17. I tried & tried to find a copy of SOTS for my maternal granddpap back in the days of VHS tapes. Whem I inquired at my local public library, I was treated to a lecture by the hag that I talked to about how it was “filled with hurtful stereotypes about those who have been oppressed throughout history”. I replied that I didn’t realize this awful movie was about Jewish folks. She hung up on my incredible wit. Anyhoo, I finally located a copy from a lovely woman in England. It cost a pretty penny, but granddpap loved it until the day he passed. I still have it to this day.

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