Song of the South is a teriffic movie.
Uncle Remus is a wonderful character. He should be admired, not ridiculed.
I purchased the movie overseas and my kids have watched it repeatedly. It hasn't made them little racists, to the contrary they have many friends of all races, colors and creeds.
>>>I purchased the movie overseas and my kids have watched it repeatedly. It hasn't made them little racists, to the contrary they have many friends of all races, colors and creeds.>>>
The thing is, I watched this movie in the mid-70's (as I'm 33) I was raised in the south, but was not prejudiced as Hollywood would have all southern families to be. When I saw SotS I thought it was sweet the love of those children to their Uncle Remus. I didn't realize the horror slavery, nor did I realize that there was hard feelings. I also didn't know you were supposed to pretend bad things didn't happen in history and we weren't supposed discuss slavery in the least unless we were giving ourselves (and others dishing it out to us) a major guilt trip for being born evil and white.
I just thought it was sweet they had an Uncle Remus and wished I had an Uncle Remus to tell me stories and sing songs with.