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god I went to see Song of the South the last time they released it from the vault and I was too young to remember much beyond...

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god I went to see Song of the South the last time they released it from the vault and I was too young to remember much beyond that I liked it and the theme song was catchy but I feel bad now that I didn't commit it to memory before it was hidden in the Racism Pit forever

kontextmaschine:

In 4th and 5th grade our gifted class teacher told us the Uncle Remus stories in like an Uncle Remus voice, at the time I didn’t notice how weird that was

Oh in retrospect they were totally being taken as a folk canon like some multiracial equivalent of 19th century romantic nationalism like Mother Goose, huh?