Other Cringeworthy Blackface/Yellowface/Etc. movies

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@CalMeacham

Actually, the tales of Br’er Rabbit and others are recognizable African folktales. You can find them in books on African mythology. The people who told them weren’t creating the stories – they were preserving their cultural heritage in a way that was particularly appropriate.

Joel Chandler Harris was a white guy who retold these stories, often in excruciatingly rendered dialect. He didn’t make them up, either.

Y’all might want to come over here instead.

Song of the South is Racist as Much for What it Doesn’t Show as What it Does

Continuing the discussion from American Civil War: questions from a Canadian: An example of this: the main Protagonist Kid (poor little rich kid whose daddy own’s the plantation, even as he is supposedly troubled by debt) has a birthday party. PK has two friends at least (other children) who get a decent amount of screen time: one is a White Girl, the other a Black Boy. One of the minor conflicts of the movie is whether it is appropriate for PK to invite WG, who is from a poor family of lower…