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Originally Posted by pwalker8
Song of the South was based on Joel Chandler Harris' Uncle Remus stories and was fairly consistent with those stories.
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Right, which is why I chose Song of the South rather than Joel Chandler Harris' stories.
The trouble spots of Song of the South aren't the animated stories. Those still occasionally pop up, for instance in Splash Mountain.
It is the live action, original segments that are the most squirmy.
And again, I don't feel Disney had any agenda going in. They wanted to make a family movie that wouldn't raise the hackles of the South in those days.
But watching it now (which is very difficult to do as Disney has buried the movie) it is very obvious that no black person had any input in the direction of the movie.