What,s the problem showing Song of the South?Black People?

Question

This is a good clean movie and does not teach bad influence on anyone,especilly children.What about the other black movies shown on tv? Cabin in the sky ,Pinky.Carmen Jones Black grown ups and this song Ole Black Joe.To kill a mocking bird and their is more not enough of you watch TCM, Blacks complainig about slavery ,Black this, Black that, can,t show this what about others who have struggled jews,Christians tortured,gays beaten,You have prevented a nice movie off the tv because of what tell me again i Forgot.There are some of the best songs written in the movie and they make me happy and i love Uncle Remus is he a sex offender and bad influence on the kids. Blacks i think you need to see the movie again to compare to today.Where there slaves in the bible you tell me from some of the protrayals i saw seems much suffering to me.You are free go on from there.

Answer 1

the problem with it was that even though it was set AFTER the civil war, it doesn't acknowledge any racial problems of the time, and it only shows black people being happy about their lives. it's what it didn't show that caused the problem for people.

Answer 2

The problem with showing "Song of the South" is that it distorts history so completely. For instance, the man on whom "Uncle Remus" was based was actually none other than George Washington Carver, and the movie does not in any way depict the majesty of this man. He was not a cringing, servile servant--on the contrary, he actually ran the depicted plantation, and the whites did his bidding. The cartoons, allegedly based upon those in Carver's celebrated children's book "Kill all the White People," are so far removed from the originals so as to be ludicrous fiction. Brer Rabbit, in the book, was a Jewish banker who refused to lend money to Brer Bear, an honest African American. So Brer Bear and Brer Fox had their way with Brer Rabbit's blond wife by way of revenge. The ending of the film was somewhat accurate, historically, but downplayed Carver's genius. "Uncle Remus" did indeed save the injured child, but it was through the advanced medical techniques that Carver invented at the plantation. He cured the boy's cancer through radiation therapy, fully eighty years before the white man began to do so. I say, show the movie--but let the facts be known as well.

Answer 3

There's no problem at all. I enjoyed it as a child, but it's been in the vault for decades. It don't want it released if the PC crowd scrubs it first.

And get out those old Amos and Andy shows. The used to have me on the floor laughing.

Answer 4

If it's by whites and from the South, it's automatically racist. They want to ban everything about the South. But it's okay for them to rap about killing whitey. They call that "multiculturalism".