netmilsmom
Since Sep 8, 2002
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Official Anti-Catholic Troll Hunter...on the hunt for “Sado-evangelism”
Anti-Catholics please "minister" somewhere else!
Slash-and-burn evangelism will not be tolerated (Hat tip - Sandyeggo)
Thank you big'ol_freeper for the great graphic!
In society today, images from our past, words and phrases are considered in poor taste. To say or show some of these is downright offensive. How far should we go to keep from offending a person or group of people? Should one change a classic, such as "Huck Finn" to eliminate such words or edit characters from "Gone With the Wind" to be PC? It has happened and very few people know about it.
As I child, one of my goals was to see every Disney feature every made. Before the time of VCRs it was not an easy task. My Dear Departed Father fed into my obsession and would drive me all over Northeast Ohio to see films. In 1968, "Fantasia" [1940] was re-released by the Disney Studios. This feature is visually beautiful, as well as inovative in sound and image. While others remember this movie for the sequence with Mickey Mouse, I was enamored with the "Pastoral Symphony" a fantasy of mythology with flying horses, cherubs and centaurs. It shaped my teen years in Commercial Art school and now screen captures of the characters from the DVD decorate my daughters' rooms.
During the "Pastoral Symphony" there is a scene where a comical Nero-type character rides in on a unicorn donkey. He is escorted by two beautiful African centaurettes. Their horse bodies are zebras. One refills Nero's cup with wine and one cools him with a giant feather fan. They are clearly servants or slaves. I thought they were the only black centaurettes in the movie
In doing research to find pictures to decorate my daughters' rooms, "Sunflower" was revealed to me. As one can see from the pencil drawing above, she is not politically correct for today. She was in scenes of the "Pastoral Symphony", grooming centaurettes for the arrival of the centaurs and following the zebra sequence. She was removed by Disney prior to that 1968 rerelease, so therefore I have never seen this in it's entirety. She was a truly stereotypical character and not needed at all. The cherubs are doing a great job of preparing the centaurettes. However, the screen cuts that Disney did to eliminate Sunflower, yet keep the continuity of the soundtrack, are quite obvious and detract from the beauty of the DVD. According to the Internet Movie Database and The Memory Hole website (who holds the last remaining pictures of this character) Disney denies that Sunflower ever existed.
For political correctness and the African/American community, should Sunflower have been eliminated from the sequence? Of course! However, with the amount of space available on a DVD, the complete sequence should have been included as a special feature. By denying that she ever existed, Disney has altered a classic. It's wrong. A part of our history is gone. How can I teach my children the sins of the past if we sanitize everything?
Those who do not know the past are destined to repeat it.
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"My wife and I were also concerned that our children would miss out on the socialization available in the public schools...so once a week we take our kids into the bathroom, cuss at them, push them around, steal their lunch money, and offer them drugs, and that seems to take care of it." FReeper Oberon