Seven Racist Disney Cartoons
Racism in Disney is not completely unheard of. Disney Racism goes back to the beginning. Disney has racist cartoons dating back to the 50's. Disney's "The Princess and The Frog", opening December 11, marks the first time the Disney hero is African-American. When I watched the preview I thought, "This should be interesting". Disney isn't exactly known for it's cultural sensitivity. Granted, they've gotten better over the years, but I did notice that the African-American heroine in this film is only slightly darker than a white person with a good tan and was colored using the same paper-bag litmus test used to cast African-American women in hip-hop videos. And her prince is white, so way to promote positive Black love. This has been discussed in several forums, with Cracked.Com recently compiling a list of racist Disney characters, and star tribune discussion the films listed below. It will definitely be interesting to see people's reactions after the film's release in December.
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In the original 1940 version of this film, there was a scene depicting a group of playful characters with a black centaur with exaggerated features cleaning the hooves of a graceful white centaur. Since 1969, that scene has been removed from the film.BUY @ amazon
It hints at the list of disney villains as solely being the writers and animators. -
Oh man. I think this one might be featured in the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia. Take your pick, there's the crows, one named "Jim Crow" who has such great lines as "I be done seen 'bout ev'rything when I see an elephant fly," or the faceless black men who perform menial labor and sing about how they never learned to read or write.BUY @ amazon -
I think this cartoon has inspired two of my favorite Saturday Night Live sketches, Uncle Jemima's Pure Mash Liquor (featuring Tracy Morgan) and probably my favorite Saturday TV FunHouse, "The Disney Vault" ( http://www.hulu.com/watch/1521/saturday-night-live-disney-vault-vt#s-p12-sr-i2 )Well maybe more than one racist Disney film inspired that short...BUY @ amazon
Song of The South features Uncle Remus, speaking in a dialect reminiscent of post Civil War setting (think how blacks were portrayed in Gone With the Wind) and inappropriate for modern day viewing. Disney stopped releasing the film in 1986. -
The portrayal of Native Americans in this film is what gives it a position on this list. Thankfully, we have moved light years ahead and there are no more racist stereotypes of Native Americans in modern day society, not in the names of our sports teams or mascots, or...oh wait. Well at the very least, Native Americans are healthy and happy with health rates that don't rival those of some developing countries...oh nevermind.BUY @ amazon -
Siamese Cats. Despite the complaints of the typical Asian stereotype of slanted eyes and pidgin diction common to films of this era, Disney still featured similar characters in 1970's The Aristocats.BUY @ amazon
It's a good thing we've moved past stereotypical portrayals of Asians. And it's good that McDonald's has embraced diversity and shown their support of the Asian community with this insightful tribute: http://www.myinspirasian.com/ Yeah. It's not a joke.
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Seven Racist Disney Cartoons at 2/23/2012 11:02 AM
2. The Jungle Book. Really! Louie is an ape that wants to be like man. It is only racist if taken out of context.
3. Aladdin. Hello has anyone taken into account what the Arabs have done to their neighbors. Persians are not allowed to speak persian! And that's the least of it. They were and can still be, barbaric. @gigi Scar and Jafar were voiced by the same guy and made to look like him.
4. Lady and the Tramp. I have a siamese cat, he has eyes just like the cats in the movie. I don't think it was a slight against asians, cats and dogs don't like each other in general. The cat's in the movie were very proud and thought they were better than the dogs, that's how my cat treats my dogs, and what cat looks more regal than a siamese?
All of that being said, things were different when most of these were released, some of it is racist, but I didn't catch it when I was a kid, why would kids now days. I am hispanic, jewish, and white, but I really don't care that there has not been a hispanic or jewish princess yet. Get over it! Tiana was one of the strongest Disney Princess's to be created. It makes sense Naveen was French, hello the French quarter in Louisiana? You know what is more upsetting than all if this c**p, why was the scene in Fantasia "Night on Bald Mountain" taken out. That was one of my favorites as a child. They say it scares kids because of the devil character, how ridiculous! Disney, quit chopping up your movies to be PC!
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Seven Racist Disney Cartoons at 7/20/2011 11:41 AM
1. why get offended when they just made a movie about a African American princess....they are not the only race, Hispanics haven't gotten theirs yet and it doesn't bother them.... I watch these movies because of the story line not because i like watching movies about white people...
2. i like how you didn't mention that most of the time the villains in movies are darker than the good guys... Like in the Lion King Scar was darker than Mufasa and Scar was voiced by a white man and Mufasa by a black man and in The Little Mermaid Ursula wasn't white like Ariel, and in Aladdin Jafar was a shade darker than Aladdin
3. Lady and Tramp....The cats eyes have a really close resemblance to actual Siamese cats
4.Lastly the movie fantasia was released in 1940.. when racism in america was 1.Legal 2. still occurring on the streets... so when it was made the producer didn't make a huge deal out of it...
Yes maybe some references in movies may come of as racist in some way but cant we make that assumption about everything in life... Racism still occurs in 2011 and will occur til the end of time
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Lady and the Tramp at 5/13/2011 5:08 PM
Peter Pan at 5/13/2011 5:07 PM
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Aladdin at 5/13/2011 4:52 PM
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The Jungle Book at 1/24/2011 5:48 PM
And! When Louis Prima talks jive, it's because he does talk jive! Jive or hep, or hip, whatever you wanna call it, weren't dialects of race, they were of subculture, that of "jazz musicians, hipsters, beatniks, juvenile delinquents and the criminal fringe".
jazz is not about race, and nor is jive. Methinks that thinking this is racist...is possibly closet racism itself?
The Jungle Book at 1/24/2011 5:48 PM
And! When Louis Prima talks jive, it's because he does talk jive! Jive or hep, or hip, whatever you wanna call it, weren't dialects of race, they were of subculture, that of "jazz musicians, hipsters, beatniks, juvenile delinquents and the criminal fringe".
jazz is not about race, and nor is jive. Methinks that thinking this is racist...is possibly closet racism itself?
Seven Racist Disney Cartoons at 1/14/2011 10:15 AM
I 'm not offended by the Song of the South movie and I don't consider it racist. The movie simply depicted a historical way of life...
P.S. his dialect wasn't nearly as stereotyped as other "black character dialects" that I've heared in other movies- both vintage and modern.
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Aladdin at 1/08/2011 6:45 PM
Song of the South at 12/08/2010 3:17 PM
And before anyone thinks I'm racist, I'm a young, black woman.
The Jungle Book at 12/08/2010 3:12 PM
Aladdin at 11/12/2010 3:25 PM
P.S. Here's a clue for you. Throughout history, the "Arab" culture has not exactly been perfect and there nothing more racist than treating one race as purely heroic and without flaw. We all have flaws and goofy quirks, some even ugly. Whether it was stealing Judeo/Christian lands to being the greatest threat to modern world peace- "Arab" people have never been innocent or some gold standard.
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she wasnt allowed to date the white man.
The Jungle Book at 6/09/2010 4:44 PM
1) yes he talks like a Jazzy kind of guy, does it really matter that he was voiced by a white guy -__-'. But just because that's how his voice and character is doesn't mean he's symbolically a black man whose saying he wants to be white -___- the little boy isn't even white!! The monkey King just wants to have a society like humans, that's it. And how is 'Jungle book' a racey title?! It takes place in Indian Jungles. Since when was the word Jungle racist ;:|
but omg the panther and PaPa bear have black fur, and PaPa bear is big and stupid. Omg so racist ;:| being overly sensitive is worse than a silly stereotype and finding it offensive. Like fried chicken and watermelon...who cares D: are black people not allowed to like it or be shown liking it because it was a really weird stereoype
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Lady and the Tramp at 4/09/2010 7:39 AM
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Fantasia at 1/20/2010 3:46 AM
Seven Racist Disney Cartoons at 12/13/2009 3:12 AM
Reel Bad Arabs: book and film show how Hollywood finds it very hard to make films about arabs that arent stereotyped..
AND why has Hollywood never made a film about the jewish-palestinian conflict in palestine?
Racism has not died..its alive and well in Hollywood.
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who ever wrote this list needs to harden the f__k up & look at it from a historical point of view
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