Nine Racist Disney Cartoons, (And A Couple Of Omissions)
01/22/2008
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Cracked.com features many lists of amusing things—one of the most recent is on the subject of racist Disney cartoons, racist here mostly meaning stereotypical.
These old Disney movies are a little bit like your aging Uncle Frank. Honestly, he means well when he points out that Will Smith is "well-spoken." It's just that he, like the assemblage of clips below, dates from a time when people were unfairly characterized by their ethnic background (the acceptable methods are, of course, religion, geography, sexual preference and income). The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters | Cracked.
I think they're wrong in a couple of instances, and they missed a couple of obvious ones. The first is the Siamese Cat Song, from Lady And The Tramp, and the second, possibly invisible to the writers of Cracked.com is the portrayal of the white settlers in Pocahontas.
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