Disneyland cancels song, recorded by Jackson 5 and Louis Armstrong, because it's racist | Washington Examiner
By: cwtremo (Washington Examiner)
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Old Disney animated films are good for the soul. They are wholesome fun for the family and are often packed with many valuable lessons that can be used throughout life. Take the Disney animated classic, The Lion King, for example. One of the more pivotal scenes suggests how to deal with troubling situations from the past.
"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it." -Rafiki, The Lion King pic.twitter.com/xQhOkosplu
— Disney (@Disney) April 23, 2022
"The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it," says Rafiki, an elderly wise mandrill who advises Simba, the movie's main character. Rafiki's advice is a valuable lesson that the culturally left-wing executives at Disneyland failed to learn. This is especially true after the amusement park's decision earlier this month to remove the lyric "zip-a-dee-doo-dah" from its park parades because of racism.
Clearly, Disneyland chose to run from the past.
After decades of featuring the song as part of its entertainment experience, the delicate minds of Disney now decided to remove the song because it is too racially insensitive, damaging, not inclusive, or whatever other kind of perpetual victimization some radical leftist somewhere felt it was. The controversy doesn't come from the lyric itself but rather from the film in which the song was featured, "Song of the South," a movie panned for stereotypes of black Americans.
It's the latest example of the depths of Disney's great cultural revolution. Things don't even have to be racist themselves anymore. Now, things can be racist by association or classified as racist adjacent, I suppose. It's a thought process crazier than Disneyland's "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride."
But the only people generally bothered by "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" seemed to be white left-wingers. The song has been around for nearly 80 years and has won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2004, it was ranked 47th by the American Film Institute on a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century.
And while some leftist somewhere would probably rationalize these accolades as a product of white supremacy or other foolish nonsense, the song was recorded and performed by two of the country's most legendary and iconic black musical entertainers, Louis Armstrong in 1966 and the Jackson 5 in 1969.
But this is indicative of the damage caused by left-wing brainwashing. Are we supposed to believe that "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" was so racist, but Louis Armstrong and the Jackson 5 specifically chose to record it anyway? Why is this song triggering people in 2023 but not in the 1960s? Do the white liberals of 2023 think they are morally superior, self-righteous, and more intelligent than black musicians?
The people at Disneyland should start watching the old Disney movies as they are filled with valuable life lessons that are directly applicable today. And now, after decades of left-wing programming and indoctrination, those lessons are probably more needed than ever before.
It's 2023, and people are mentally incapable of hearing a song about enjoying a beautiful day. This is the extremism that now encapsulates Disney. Disney didn't just run from the past; it created its own past to run from.
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Never heard of this right wing writer, but this is one of the more ridiculous articles I've read in a long time.
"Song Of The South"
This movie has not been shown on American television since 1984, 39 years ago, precisely because it was deemed too racially offensive. And now we are supposed to believe that this conclusion is "new" and due to present day "cancel culture" and wokeness?
The movie has not been shown or available to buy in the US since 84, but it was just recently (January, 2023) that Disney shut down the Splash Mountain ride which was based on the movie so it could be considered that this is recent news. Disney did reference this song as part of the reason why they shut down that ride, but in being honest Disney has shut down attractions in the past to replace them with something more up to date.
As the Washington Examiner has a right lean bias, I suspect this is more along the lines of someone letting their bias out for a walk.
Is the song racist? Yes or no answer only.
Disney has jumped the leftist looney tune track.
Being happy or optimistic is a crime in wokeland.
They (racists) say a lot of slaves were happy too.
The Uncle Remus character who sings the song in the movie is considered to be a negative racial stereotype. What part of that do you not understand?
I understand it perfectly.
What other songs should we censor because a "negative racial stereotype" sung them?
Sinatra? Any rapper arrested for a crime? Or just old black men who like to tell stories?
Hattie McDaniel performed in the movie, in a 1947 interview, she told the American publication The Criterion, “If I had for one moment considered any part of the picture degrading or harmful to my people, I would not have appeared therein.”
Her co-star said “I believe that certain groups are doing my race more harm in seeking to create dissension than can ever possibly come out of the ‘Song of the South.’”
Obviously that would be decided on a case by case basis. Do you think racially offensive entertainment should be promoted just because it has previously existed? In 1946 when Song Of The South was made it was acceptable to present blacks as house slave mammies, or happy entertainers who danced and sung in blissful oblivion to racial discrimination. It no longer is. Things change.
Watch the Spike Lee movie Bamboozled.
and? In 1947 a lot of blacks accepted the reality of Jim Crow and segregation too. So what?
Well.... at least we've addressed the horror that is "Baby It's Cold Outside".
I never liked that song - before all the hoopla about it.
I certainly understand you not liking it.
I don't understand the hoopla.
Neither did I.
I've never seen the movie and I don't have a problem with the lyrics. If Disney wants to distance itself from the movie and not use the song in their parades I think that's great. If you really want your kids to be able to hear a song in a parade that they've never heard before from a movie that they've never seen I guess you're out of luck. I know my grandkids would rather hear something from Frozen that they can sing along with.
Which is why I believe Disney finally decided to shut down Splash Mountain and replace it with a theme from another movie. Times change but a constant in Disney is that the families with small children still outnumber every other group.
If I heard correctly, this ride will be redone to go with 'The Princess and The Frog'.
Yeah, it may have won an academy award but most kids now days have never heard it.
I guess I'm a racist because I see nothing wrong with Zip De Doo Dah
Hattie was just an Aunt Jemima.
I'll save you a seat in the gulag.
I've always liked that song. I've been known to hum it when I'm feeling happy
I have been known to break out in Zip De Doo Dah every once in a while, but the movie BORED me as a kid & I never watched it as a teen or adult.
I've never seen it
I was a kid watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" on Sunday night. I was sooooo bored....
I remember watching that. I remember Werner what's his name (the rocket guy that we picked up in Germany after WWII) doing his rocket thing. I was fascinated
We only got to watch if my father was at a bar or we would get stuck watching 60 minutes after football. Don't remember the rocket guy.
I remember his name now. Werner von Braun. He developed the V2 rockets for the Nazis and was working on the V3 when Germany surrendered
I'll take a drive to
Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
And knock the little jockeys
Off the rich peoples lawn
And before they get up
I'll be gone
(I'll be gone)
Before they get up
I'll be knockin' the jockeys off the lawn
(Down in the dew)
Interesting article. I had read a slightly different version of the Jocko years ago but hadn't heard of any other the other origin theories. Growing up in Ohio in the 60's, I didn't see many but thought even then that is was a somewhat jarring sight.
There is a chance Disney did this to piss off DeSantis.
Doubtful. There's been talk for years about the ride Splash Mountain being replaced by something newer. That's actually standard far for Disney. Add in that the movie itself was deemed offensive and removed from any US showing since 1984 and it's no small wonder that the ride itself would have lost it's place in Disney lore. It's the rare person who goes to Disneyland today who has even seen that movie.
There are many rides that used to exist at Disneyland (and it's other parks) that have lost their influence over time and been replaced. IMO it's marketing and the money they can bring in rather than any political machinations.