Song of the South
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Song of the South is the controversial 1946 Walt Disney film that blends live action and animation. It is based on Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus stories about a boy on a plantation who befriends the storyteller Uncle Remus. It ended up winning an Academy Award for the song Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah and an honorary Oscar for star James Baskett. The film is criticized for its romanticized portrayal of the post-Civil War South. Disney pulled it and put in the vault in the mid 80’s never to be released again.
Song of the South should not be locked away in the vault. Daddy took us to the theater to see it when it was released for the last time because he wanted to make sure we saw it. I was always a huge Brer Rabbit fan as he always told me stories of Brer Rabbit and Brer Fox. I was able to obtain the movie from a friend recently and I watched it again. I saw nothing bad. Uncle Remus was a sweet old man that loved the children and got great joy from telling them stories. The children loved him dearly like a grandpa and loved his stories. It portrays history and how things were in the south at that time.
The woke progressives want to erase history, especially the history of the South. History is not right or left, and it should be taught exactly as it happened. We cannot learn from what has been whitewashed or changed to be more politically acceptable. None of us living today can change the past or had anything to do with how things were. In George Orwell’s book 1984 the Ministry of Truth was in charge of altering history, and they had the Thought Police to tell people how to think. 1984 is a prophetic dystopian novel written 1949, but we are living it today as these same things are happening now. The progressives in government today represent all the things the book warns about.
I am not saying bad things did not happen in the south because they did, but we have to learn from history exactly as it was, or the lesson is invalid. Some of the people today clearly have not learned from history and what happens when government is too big. They vote for tyranny and big government control thinking Big Brother is going to take care of them. Big government leads to tyranny. Falsifying the history of the South is not going to change what happened. Removing a movie because it is “insensitive” does not change history. I would much rather children watch a historical movie about a loving old man befriending children and the animals he talked about than some of this woke garbage on TV today that is rotting their minds.
