God bless the great James Baskett, who passed away in 1948, two years after this production was made. He was only 44 and had heart disease. What a phenomenal talent.
This was an expression of "positive thinking" to me at a very young age. I still feel happy when I think about it. I was out in California a few years ago and they were still using this song in TV commercials for Disneyland.
My father always sings/hums this ditty. I only found out that his father did the exact same thing, and when he realized it, it blew his mind. My uncle (My dad's brother) got cancer and died a slow painful death. But before he was gone, my aunt said that he was singing this song, and said that he could see a blue bird outside his window right before he died. Maybe there's a little something more to Disney's magic
Oh my gosh! I remember watching this on VHS. Not the movie but the whole sing-song tape. At least that's what I think it was, I remember it having a whole bunch of songs and how there are different tunes and stuff about each song. It was the best.
I sing that song all the time when the weather is beautiful or when I'm happy. This man spread joy and happiness, what's wrong with that. Because of censorship, I don't think I had the joy of seeing the full movie. I was born in 1953. The song is all I remember. Thank God they didn't take that away from us!!
I always loved this movie as a kid, (We even had the Book). Uncle Remus was the coolest! He was smart and Kind. This song always made me happy when I was sad!Sluggo
I love this song! The melody is just so beautiful! Right after Uncle Remus sings ``Wonderful feeling, wonderful day...'' the melody right there 0:46. Oh my goodness, just beautiful. How cool is it that the chords at Zip-A-Dee Ay is the chords of D and A. Brilliant.
I remember watching this film over and over again with my eight year old granddaughter and that was 20 years ago. She's all grown up now and still a very nice kid but I miss the little one . Slight tear .
catchiest Disney Songs today are : "Let it go..." "Do you want to build a snow man?" "Friends on the Other Side" Not saying the Old ones are not catchy, such as say "Be Prepared" or even "Hakuna Matata" etc, what I was getting at is that there are still catchy songs in Disney Movies, maybe not always more then one pet movie, such as the case of Frozen but always at least one on average, even Tangled had one "Mother Knows Best", and everyone of the new movies has addressed some king of social stigma of the time period they are meant to represent that might translate as well to modern day and all done in a more or less subtil way.
+Letmetrytoo you need to stop believing everything that people tell you because you should know those are all false allegations and false stereotypes. If only you would take the time to research and develop your own opinion and not follow the crowd. The KKK are delusional and have a misinterpretation of the flag.
Wonderful performance by the legendary James Baskett all shot to hell by the same knuckle heads who want to ban Huck Finn. Sad to see a brilliant actor reduced to the subject of internet arguments.
I remember watching this from an extremely young age (obviously I don't know just how old I was), but I remember being amazed at seeing a real man singing with animated animals. :) This song is one of the oldest/first memories I can recall!
Beautiful song and movie. People tend to take things too seriously and analiyze too intensely rather than taking some things on their face value. I remember walking out of the movie theater as a child and everyone seemed to be happy.
I was born in 1947 and grew up in the Deep South during the days when most things were segregated. I was around blacks and whites constantly, When I was 15, my dad opened a restaurant in a small town with a large black population. I worked in the restaurant and went to high school. Shortly after we opened, my dad had a heart attack and I was left, at age 15, to run the restaurant and go to school full-time. We had four cooks, two dishwashers and busboys and me. Everybody was black except me. Our staff pulled together to help me manage the situation in the absence of my dad, and they were wonderful. They were also very happy. The work days were spent laughing and joking, teasing one another. Two of the cooks didn't get along very well and we agreed they were work at different times. One of the busboys was my age and we became close friends. When one of the cooks had something special that happened in their lives, they always wanted to share it with me. For example, if one of their little girls got a new dress or won an award, they got the child to come by and show me. We laughed together in happy times and cried together in sad times with arms wrapped around each other. It would be a mistake to think everybody was sad and depressed because of segregation. It wasn't that way. People were busy just living their lives. When I look at Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, it makes me smile, because I remember the faces of my friends who worked with me long ago.
@Woody Jenkins what if one of those black men had wanted to date a white woman thst YOU knew? Then what? What would you have done back then, if you had awakened one morning, and found out that you were black? Let's make it personal! Until it gets personal, you can ALWAYS romanticize and patronize! Did you EVER ask any of those men what it was REALLY like being black?
***** Well they use the song lyrics but it's really animals singing. Briar Rabbit is trying to get away from the fox and bear. The man is not in the ride at all but some say you can hear his voice when they make announcements (like the FUCKING logs backed up.)
I loved this movie as a child. I had it recorded on VHS and would watch it so many times. I always wished that I knew a man like Uncle Remus, someone so kind-hearted, loving and who knew the most amazing stories.
When I was 4 I had a record of Disney songs and this one was my favorite. I played it over and over because I loved the nonsense word "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah." I never saw the movie, so I didn't know what the race of the singers was. Now that I've finally seen this clip (57 years later) I think its worth pointing out that it's a victory of the human spirit to be joyful even in the face of adversity. Now this guy was not a slave, but a man living in the post-Civil War era. In any case, he's happy about nature, and I think that's great. It would be racist to erase the history and never portray situations like this. There were many people in the situation this guy was in at that time. I'm glad that he could be happy. It doesn't mean that the economic and social conditions he lived under were ideal or just. It does mean that he didn't let them ruin his day.
This movie isn't racist, there is no derogatory terms used, or anything derogatory done to any black person in this movie. If anything it is promoting anti racism.
bigraviolees You were not alive then, so you have no idea how they felt. You can't honestly believe every black person who existed at this time was unhappy? Fuck off you ignorant fuck. Take that chip off your shoulder, you were not a slave nor did you live in the 60's. You were born in the 90's not the 40's.
bigraviolees You are an idiot, learn what derogatory means then come back to the internet. (by the way. Me calling you an idiot is derogatory to you. That might help you in your studies)
bigraviolees no it's shows a man trying to be happy in a dark time, i think most people would do that during those times. Dont thibk about your bad life full of whipping and pain, just let that go for a minute thats what i would do...
When this movie came out, this was considered a breakthrough for African Americans. You have a black man in a leading role, being a role model to white kids, and James Baskett himself took an Oscar, the first ever for an AA male. The only racist part was that Uncle Remus is a 'happy' emancipated, former slave, a role often stereotyped into the 50's. Despite this, I wish we can see Song of the South in its full glory somewhere in the future.
I am 34 and still randomly sing this song. I loved this movie as a child! I thought it was amazing that there were cartoons mixed in with real life characters.
I never saw this as racist and I never thought of him as a slave either. I just saw him as someone who took care of the kids and eventually they all cared for each other like family. Idk maybe it's because my mom was a babysitter and every child eventually got attached to her and she got attached to them that I see it like this
In this film, "Song of the South," he is the representation of Joel Chandler Harris' "Uncle Remus" through whom Harris told the delightful stories of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear. Remus is one of the greatest characters of all time in children's literature. It was one of the earliest books my parents bought me when I was about three years old! Still have it, though it's a little worse for wear, and still love it at 61 years old! :)
your right i mean i think it looks a bit racist in my opinion but its a kid movie and some won't understand what the movie targets the meaning of the plot, they watch it cause it is charming, adorable and the animation mixed with real life looks stunning.
I laugh. Boy do I laugh. Nothing has changed. If you're working for a buck you're a slave -- no matter what color you are. The whole world is based on slavery and control through the god almighty buck. If you're lucky enough to find reason to sing then bully for you. I love this song and it lifts me up every time I listen.
The irony of life is that everyone is a slave to something either physically, socially or even mentally, but that does not stop anyone from being positive.
Yeah I'm black and I don't see anything racist with this song, and you know what?!; I'm gonna sing this song right out my lawn and imagine it just like him!
GreedyCatGaming Putting aside the whole "Nice people who thought it was okay to own other people" and moving onto....No wait, let's deal with this first. People who think it was okay to own other people weren't nice. They were assholes. Every one of them. Every single one of them. Anyone who takes another's freedom and claims it as their own is in no stretch of the word a nice or good person. Moving on now. The movie actually takes place during the Reconstruction era after the passage of the 16th. The issue most people have with the movie is that it paints an image of post Civil War South that mostly exists in the mind of people that think that things couldn't have been "that bad" because "some of those people were nice." Your comment only reinforces the need to address stereotypes that are enforced in media.
Problem is these people are tenant farmers, not slaves. This was after slavery was abolished, and these people chose to stay on the plantation and continue working the farm. They could've left at any time.
I do not understand our society where something like Friday which portrays black people as criminals is "ok" but Song of the South which has a wise, kind, old black man helping out and serving as a father figure to a young white child is considered "racist"
I remember watching this tape and singing along to the Disney Sing-Along-Songs which I still have this video tape. This was one of my fave Disney Sing-Along-Song tapes. Great memories.
walleye364 sure you can! You can have a black man doing anything he wants--singing, smiling, grinning, bowing and scraping--anything, as long as he doesn't THREATEN YOU in any way or force you to reckon with him as YOUR equal!!! As long as he is NOT your equal, sing away!!! "Entertain us happy man! We love your rhythm!!"
@robert howard Clown, this aint about pity. this is just recognizing a white-wash when I see it. I know the South. i live here. it wasnt "zippity-do-dah" if you were caught on the wrong side of the tracks after sundown. so unless you were there, shut up.
@@michaeljordan9879 Thanks for manning up and telling the truth! An honest man does my heart good, because the only way black and white will make it is to come clean with each other! That's it! There is NO other way! Then we can really love each other and work TOGETHER! (BTW, I, Mar L, am female! 😁) 2nd BTW, Robert Howard just likes to play devil's advocate. It's just a clever game. He knows the truth. Don't let him suck you in. I let him suck me in earlier. Now I know better. Thanks again for speaking up!
@pillowjunkie5 Ikr?! If I want a history lesson, I'll watch the freaking history channel, not a kids' movie about a singing old man and a cartoon rabbit.
I don't see anything racist about the film per se, and it's probably because I wasn't taught to recognise or notice racial differences when I was little, or even care. To me, Uncle Remus is one of those people who never lets anything bother or get him down, and who always sees the positive in every situation like how Pollyanna does. People just need to learn to take things at face value sometimes and not try to read into everything so much.
Why is everybody saying he is a slave? He's not. He's a FORMER slave. So yes, he once was a slave, but is not a slave at any point during the movie. It takes place in the RECONSTRUCTION era, AFTER the Civil War.
I think it's interesting how everyone's like: "Omg that's so racist!!", and if you show this to a kid, they're like: "Oh look, that guy is happy, zippedidudah..."
Google "whitewashing history". There were several things that are racially and historically insensitive in the film. I wish the film would be re-released and the extras on the Blu-Ray/DVD could include segments on the culture both of the times depicted in the film and the time of initial cinematic release. We need to recognize history for what it was and is.
@robert howard What exactly are they deciding? I can decide to watch the film or not, but I can't "decide" that it's not a mid twentieth century take on the 19th century.
@Hey there this rage MUST be a smokescreen for something far more internally signjficsnt going on within! When a person is internally peaceful, cursing and name-calling don't roll down like rivers of bitter waters!
Happiness isn't allowed in the post modern globalist world they're trying to create for us. You must be angry, hateful and care about no one and no thing. Or... You can ignore the left and enjoy life.
***** I know the history and establishment of USA pretty well. Just don't get it. For example- here, in Bulgaria, we had it even worse. Way worse. Not only we were slaves under Ottoman (Turkish) rule, but there were cases of mass murder and annihilation of cities (!), killings of young men and women and so on... Pure annihilation and basically - genocide. But we don't think that some movie about that era is racist, even we WANT to remember that time, because we see how strong we could be, and how we can live through the worse. We respect our past, and in that past we've made our heroes. You get what I mean. And (for me) it's stupid to say that every movie about USA before the Civil War is racist, AND that leads to other stupidities like changing of the history. But that is other topic.
***** I've had to check for more precise information. Yes, Greece was under Turkish rule too, from around 1450s when Constantinople and Athens fell, till around 1820. But it's off topic. I mean- this doesn't mean that a Greek depicted from that period is somehow racist...
This isn't a story about putting down slaves or racism, it's a story that took place in the civil war era and just has slaves in it (because that would be historically correct.) The *story* is about a slave man who teaches a boy many good morals and lessons about life through fun, silly stories, and acts as a father figure during the boy's hard times (in which his real father is absent.) Uncle Remus is a slave, yes, but to get upset because of that fact would be completely ignoring the story's true message, which has nothing to do with the morality of slavery. (Plus, in no way was this movie putting slaves down, because Uncle Remus was the *hero* of the story!)
OH NO!! It's a happy Black guy. THIS SONG ISN'T RACIST!! Overly sensitive people. He's not a slave anymore. This takes place right after the civil war. Maybe he's happy because he's FREE!!!
The movie is set AFTER the Civil War. Slavery had been abolished before the events of Song of the South, book and movie. It's a great story where a man tells fables to teach children life lessons. Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah is one of Disney's most recognizable and popular songs in its history, and the other Brer Rabbit songs are just as fun. Thank you for sharing this great song. Have a Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah day everyone!
He may be singing a happy song, but we all KNOW he has seen horrors his whole life. He's trying to see the good in life because he knows anger and bitterness will kill him. Is happiness to be considered racist? I would need to see the rest of the film.
I love this song!! and he is the only one to sing it, perfectly!!! I remember seeing this on TV when I was little, and I Loved It.... Still Do!!! He has such a wonderful voice!!!
research this film. the NAACP summarily boycotted it without giving it a review. I've sat through the film. and didn't find anything racist about it. unless you consider actors portraying characters that speak in the language and vocabulary of the time period it was set in. the overall plot of the film is that the main character is trying to convince his owner's daughter not to run away by telling her folk stories of brer rabbit. is slavery wrong? yes. did it happen? yes. deal with it.
For all of you who fail to realize why this is racist, consider this: For a black man in the late 19th century to be happy go lucky and singing in the South of the late 1800s, he would have to be dropping acid, high as a kite and seeing animated birds and insects flying around, Look at his eyes at 1:38--high out of his mind...Half joking but this is about context people. The guy who plays Uncle Remus could not even attend the Atlanta premiere because of segregation.
Most people don't know the history of the author of the Animal Tales which are the basis of this movie. Joel Chandler Harris was born illegitimate. The only people who would let him play with his kids were the African Americans. He learned these stories at the knees of African American storytellers. When he grew up, he recorded what he had heard as an homage to the people who had accepted him.
Joel Sax CL ALB yup, he was one of the only people who cared enough to ever record these old slave stories he'd heard growing up, some of which came from Africa originally, but people still assume he was a pro-slavery racist
This song always makes me happy even if everyone gets mad about it my dad always sings it when he is happy and u have heard it all my life and i dont think anything bad about it, it just reminds me of good memories and times from when i was younger or even just last week
Funny how everyone is commenting that this is racist when you should be commenting on another video considering the fact the SONG itself is not racist one bit. So of you are going to say the song is racist please get out
This movie is racist because it is a completely inaccurate depiction of what black people went through during the reconstruction era in the South. This is the time of that the KKK was at its height, in which thousands of black people were tortured and earned incredibly low wages for gruesome work (so low that it was practically slavery, which is what the whites in the south wanted). Black people were put in incredible debt, physically and mentally tortured, segregated from attending the most basic of facilities. They were not protected by the law and were treated as subhuman. This movie depicts black people as being somehow happy even though many died on the field, were raped, brutally lynched, discriminated, and put in incredible debt. Their conditions were no better than slavery. It's cruel to show kids that freedmen of the south during reconstruction were happy, even when their conditions were similar of the proletariate of Russia under Tzar Nicholas. It's disgusting.
What, you mean it's inaccurate that singing cartoon birds flew around when wise old black men sung songs? Yes they were poor, yes many were treated quite badly, but their lives usually weren't hell on earth. EVERYBODY was poor in the south at that point for the most part. The Uncle Remus stories were simply an attempt to capture traditional African folklore and provide simple entertainment for children in a very trying time. But people like you just have to go an ruin that but judging everything through 21st century glasses. I hate to break it to you, but some Nazis didn't kill Jews, some bankers aren't out to screw the little guy, some cops enjoy protecting and serving, and some reconstruction era literary works don't have some evil, racist ulterior motive.
+CapAnson12345 well said ... never understood how this got everyone angry when their are worse racist movies out there that are allowed to be put on dvd ... yet this one is band .... o_O ... They say it's not to history but... its a pigging movie about a happy man singing to a cartoon bird telling cute stories to kids to teach them lessons ... where's the racism???
The problem with America is right here in the comment section. Can you guys actually utilize your God given brains and think exactly WHY this film is racist? We are truly failed if people don't know how to analyze history and cannot correlate and decide on their own terms.
I know a lot of people get offended by this movie and this clip. But when I was a kid watching this, I didn't know anything about racism or that anybody could possibly hate someone else just because of their skin. It made me happy to hear the song and still whenever I wake up in the morning and I just feel happy, I whistle this song. Doing so makes my day even better. I don't care about all that extra crap as much as it may be intended to offend. This song all by its self still makes me happy.
When I was a kid in early 90's, Hardee's had this promotion where they gave you VHS tapes of all the Disney songs with lyrics similar to this one. All the clips were taken from Disney movies except for this one. It had a video of kids having fun at Disneyland instead. Now that I'm 29 and knowing what I know, I understand why they didn't go with this clip :)
I love this song! Reminds me of my Disneyland trips as a child. Regardless of what these overly politically-correct people keep complaining about, I find this song very heartwarming and cheerful. It just makes me happy :) I see nothing racist about this clip. A black man, whether he was a slave or not, is having one of those rare "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" days. Regardless if the setting was supposed to emulate the harshest, most racist times of America, it doesn't mean Black people couldn't find the simple joys in things such as singing a song to ease the pain. I don't know why that guy "bigraviolee" is getting so upset in the comments. I think people can't agree on a standard operational definition of racisim. This clip is simply taking place in a racist and hateful time, yet he can still find ways simple joys to be happy. It's a pretty simple lesson, people. The world isn't fair, but it doesn't mean you can't find ways to be happy. Simple as that.
Seriously though, can someone tell me how is it racist? I'm curious. Is it because this man is enjoying the good day? Or what, because he is a bit clumsy? He is an old man! Jesus.
Honestly, straightforward labeling something as "racist" or "not-racist" is kind of a disservice to modern racial matters. Actually, the song on its own merits seems to reflect more on blue collar workers then any race IMO The problem is when the film is taken as a whole it does romanticize southern plantation life specifically.
***** No where in the movies does it say they are slaves it is an inference, they are plantation workers, and contrary to popular belief not every plantation during slavery had unhappy slaves who worked until the couldn't and got beaten until they could, some of them where treated humans (They still couldn't leave though) and when Uncle Remus leave the plantation later it is a clear sign that he was not a slave, slaves didn't just leave.
Turning things innocent as racist. That's a psychological trip on weaker minds. I'm a dick and I don't see nuthin' but a happy song. I knew the dude was black because we share a name and I learned him young. Never thought nothing but what the song intends. While we're trippin' on racism though. Everybody treated everybody very poorly over the course of history. We're moving to the next level, where people can be self-reliant and have no need to take advantage of others. People reluctant to move on, drag us backwards with slavery talk. Slave means Slav, as in Polish or Lithuanian etcetera. I want redress from those mean Mongols and Egyptians. Better than that, I want to progress to where nobody gives a smurf anymore and we worry about current issues. Now can we just discuss Brer Rabbit again?
No, it's racist because the one black kid tripped while the white kids didn't. This represents the oppression of African-Americans during the nineteenth century and thus, this movie is worse the Hitler.
That would be historically accurate. This was after the Civil War when the slaves had recently been freed and were often still in conditions of what is called economic slavery (i.e. being enslaved by economic circumstance). The black kid at that time would have been the son of a sharecropper. The white kids would have been the children of the former slave-owner. So the latter would be better clothed and fed. How would it help to falsify the history and show the black kid dressed in nice new clothes same as the white kids?
bill3209 Even though this is 5 years ago, I want to give my two cents. Even though it is racist, it's still historically accurate, which I think is ok to show in a movie. If we whitewash the past, we are doomed to commit the same mistakes that we've already commited.
If more kids saw this today, they'd be confused. Mommy, why is this man happy and singing to children instead of on the news dead from robbing or wanted by police? So I guess it is better not to send mixed messages and stick with what kids have been seeing since this movie was no longer available. Good job, liberals.
So what you're saying is, since what kids see on tv today is black people getting arrested (awesome to know what you would choose to let children see is the terrible news where all you see are apparently racist cops, instead of oh i don't know maybe cartoons?), seeing a happy, smiling, singing black man who has overcome slavery is a bad thing for our nation's children to see? I really hope you don't have kids, no need to raise more self-proclaimed righteous "modernists" who are actually just racist assholes in the world.
My great grandmother loved this Disney movie because it was never released on tape she had a bootlegged copy of it. This song reminds me of her all the time.
God bless the great James Baskett, who passed away in 1948, two years after this production was made. He was only 44 and had heart disease. What a phenomenal talent.
This song just SCREAMS "I'm having a good day and I'mma sing about it!"
The owl bugs me, though.
Don't worry. He bugged all of us. Just sing the song until he's gone X)
Listen to “Don’t Stop Me Now” by Queen.
And it is not illegal to do so . Right on !
This was an expression of "positive thinking" to me at a very young age. I still feel happy when I think about it. I was out in California a few years ago and they were still using this song in TV commercials for Disneyland.
This song is a classic, a great song, and can still put a smile on my tired old mug.
An old man taking a walk and singing because he's happy and enjoys life.
I can dig it .
This song puts a huge smile on my face. I just can’t ever seem to be sad when I hear it.
Especially when I hear “My oh my! What a wonderful day!” 😊
My father always sings/hums this ditty. I only found out that his father did the exact same thing, and when he realized it, it blew his mind. My uncle (My dad's brother) got cancer and died a slow painful death. But before he was gone, my aunt said that he was singing this song, and said that he could see a blue bird outside his window right before he died.
Maybe there's a little something more to Disney's magic
Oh my gosh! I remember watching this on VHS. Not the movie but the whole sing-song tape. At least that's what I think it was, I remember it having a whole bunch of songs and how there are different tunes and stuff about each song. It was the best.
I always enjoyed this song, he had such a nice voice and those Santa Claus cheeks are absolutely precious! You can see the joy in his heart!
My Mama loved this song..I guess the movie too..but she'd sing the song to me when I was little....miss you Mama ❤
I sing that song all the time when the weather is beautiful or when I'm happy. This man spread joy and happiness, what's wrong with that. Because of censorship, I don't think I had the joy of seeing the full movie. I was born in 1953. The song is all I remember. Thank God they didn't take that away from us!!
I always loved this movie as a kid, (We even had the Book). Uncle Remus was the coolest! He was smart and Kind. This song always made me happy when I was sad!Sluggo
Thanks for sharing and adding value to my day. Love this song.
I love this song! The melody is just so beautiful! Right after Uncle Remus sings ``Wonderful feeling, wonderful day...'' the melody right there 0:46. Oh my goodness, just beautiful. How cool is it that the chords at Zip-A-Dee Ay is the chords of D and A. Brilliant.
I remember watching this film over and over again with my eight year old granddaughter and that was 20 years ago. She's all grown up now and still a very nice kid but I miss the little one . Slight tear .
Splash Mountain :D
Yes!
YAAAAAAASSS!
after Disney died every move lost its magic how many songs can you hum the melody today without the words. this is one of those
sorry one that you can remember
catchiest Disney Songs today are :
"Let it go..."
"Do you want to build a snow man?"
"Friends on the Other Side"
Not saying the Old ones are not catchy, such as say "Be Prepared" or even "Hakuna Matata" etc, what I was getting at is that there are still catchy songs in Disney Movies, maybe not always more then one pet movie, such as the case of Frozen but always at least one on average, even Tangled had one "Mother Knows Best", and everyone of the new movies has addressed some king of social stigma of the time period they are meant to represent that might translate as well to modern day and all done in a more or less subtil way.
little mermaid, aladdin, beauty and the beast?
@robert howard hard to believe that. On that note neither did Zip'a'di'do'da.
@robert howard I was born in '89 so I'd have to agree.
One of the lucky few to have this classic film
my mom used to sing this song to us when she tucked us in for bed. it fills me with so many warm fuzzy feelings just to hear it again.
Brings back childhood memories. This is so old I bet the guy is already in heaven singing this song.
+Letmetrytoo you need to stop believing everything that people tell you because you should know those are all false allegations and false stereotypes. If only you would take the time to research and develop your own opinion and not follow the crowd. The KKK are delusional and have a misinterpretation of the flag.
Did you see it in theaters in the 80s? I thought they never released it on home video.
I saw it for the first time in 2003 in Elementary school for music class. I think they had it for VHS.
Hey Looser Reb- I ran out of shit-paper w/ that dead logo on it.. know where I can find some more?
SouthernPride Yee Yee! Why do you have a confederate flag profile pic
This is the best scene of the movie. What a perfectly dear man and what a beautiful voice!
I loved this as a child, I watched it in total innocence, just leave it be
I love Uncle Remus and this film, I wish him to be the grand-father I never had! I love this Actor!
Wonderful performance by the legendary James Baskett all shot to hell by the same knuckle heads who want to ban Huck Finn. Sad to see a brilliant actor reduced to the subject of internet arguments.
I loved this song as a kid
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Me to we use to sing it going to class from reuses
I remember watching this from an extremely young age (obviously I don't know just how old I was), but I remember being amazed at seeing a real man singing with animated animals. :) This song is one of the oldest/first memories I can recall!
I've always loved this movie! This was one of my favorite songs from it and I would always sing it during school! I'm glad I came across it again!
Beautiful song and movie. People tend to take things too seriously and analiyze too intensely rather than taking some things on their face value. I remember walking out of the movie theater as a child and everyone seemed to be happy.
I was born in 1947 and grew up in the Deep South during the days when most things were segregated. I was around blacks and whites constantly, When I was 15, my dad opened a restaurant in a small town with a large black population. I worked in the restaurant and went to high school. Shortly after we opened, my dad had a heart attack and I was left, at age 15, to run the restaurant and go to school full-time. We had four cooks, two dishwashers and busboys and me. Everybody was black except me. Our staff pulled together to help me manage the situation in the absence of my dad, and they were wonderful. They were also very happy. The work days were spent laughing and joking, teasing one another. Two of the cooks didn't get along very well and we agreed they were work at different times. One of the busboys was my age and we became close friends. When one of the cooks had something special that happened in their lives, they always wanted to share it with me. For example, if one of their little girls got a new dress or won an award, they got the child to come by and show me. We laughed together in happy times and cried together in sad times with arms wrapped around each other. It would be a mistake to think everybody was sad and depressed because of segregation. It wasn't that way. People were busy just living their lives. When I look at Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah, it makes me smile, because I remember the faces of my friends who worked with me long ago.
Woody Jenkins Beautiful.
@Woody Jenkins what if one of those black men had wanted to date a white woman thst YOU knew? Then what?
What would you have done back then, if you had awakened one morning, and found out that you were black? Let's make it personal! Until it gets personal, you can ALWAYS romanticize and patronize! Did you EVER ask any of those men what it was REALLY like being black?
@@Psalm_27.4 omg please grow up
lovely story and beautiful memories
@@Psalm_27.4 yeah grow up
One of my favorite secular songs of all time... right up there with "What a Wonderful World"...♥
My old school Hillcrest played this song all the time in the morning. I can sing it all day. 6 years of it! It never gets old :D
This film REALLY needs to get a DVD/Blu-Ray release anyone else think so too?
problem is disney really wants to hide this (like REALLY get rid of this)
Oh, it's just Garak. Plain, simple Garak and to get rid of this movie they give it a theme park ride that's popular
***** Well they use the song lyrics but it's really animals singing. Briar Rabbit is trying to get away from the fox and bear. The man is not in the ride at all but some say you can hear his voice when they make announcements (like the FUCKING logs backed up.)
***** Just can't resist using the word FUCKING, can you. I hate what has become of the English language.
Aloysius Anymouse Well in this case I'm using it to express a frustration. This was like three months and four days ago...
This just made me so happy. I'd love to have in on DVD. #childhoodmemories
I loved this movie as a child. I had it recorded on VHS and would watch it so many times.
I always wished that I knew a man like Uncle Remus, someone so kind-hearted, loving and who knew the most amazing stories.
When I was 4 I had a record of Disney songs and this one was my favorite. I played it over and over because I loved the nonsense word "Zip-a-dee-doo-dah." I never saw the movie, so I didn't know what the race of the singers was. Now that I've finally seen this clip (57 years later) I think its worth pointing out that it's a victory of the human spirit to be joyful even in the face of adversity. Now this guy was not a slave, but a man living in the post-Civil War era. In any case, he's happy about nature, and I think that's great. It would be racist to erase the history and never portray situations like this. There were many people in the situation this guy was in at that time. I'm glad that he could be happy. It doesn't mean that the economic and social conditions he lived under were ideal or just. It does mean that he didn't let them ruin his day.
Are you still around and kicking?
Ok
This movie isn't racist, there is no derogatory terms used, or anything derogatory done to any black person in this movie. If anything it is promoting anti racism.
bigraviolees You were not alive then, so you have no idea how they felt. You can't honestly believe every black person who existed at this time was unhappy? Fuck off you ignorant fuck. Take that chip off your shoulder, you were not a slave nor did you live in the 60's. You were born in the 90's not the 40's.
bigraviolees You are an idiot, learn what derogatory means then come back to the internet. (by the way. Me calling you an idiot is derogatory to you. That might help you in your studies)
bigraviolees no it's shows a man trying to be happy in a dark time, i think most people would do that during those times. Dont thibk about your bad life full of whipping and pain, just let that go for a minute thats what i would do...
You're already on the internet so why not use Google?
You must not have tried hard. www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/05/11/310708342/recall-that-ice-cream-truck-song-we-have-unpleasant-news-for-you
I've been searching for over a year now for this movie. And finally I foundation it. This was my favorite movie when I was younger.
Omfgg i finally found this song ! (': i played along with my second grade class 10 years ago at silverwing elementary ahhh the memories (':
brilliant film it was and still is.
78 years young,thats a very good way of looking at life,I like your positive attitude,it makes me feel happy!
When this movie came out, this was considered a breakthrough for African Americans. You have a black man in a leading role, being a role model to white kids, and James Baskett himself took an Oscar, the first ever for an AA male. The only racist part was that Uncle Remus is a 'happy' emancipated, former slave, a role often stereotyped into the 50's. Despite this, I wish we can see Song of the South in its full glory somewhere in the future.
I LOVE this movie!😍
I am 34 and still randomly sing this song. I loved this movie as a child! I thought it was amazing that there were cartoons mixed in with real life characters.
This guy was only in his early 40’s when he did this movie, but looked like he was about 30 years older. & he died just a couple years later
I never saw this as racist and I never thought of him as a slave either. I just saw him as someone who took care of the kids and eventually they all cared for each other like family. Idk maybe it's because my mom was a babysitter and every child eventually got attached to her and she got attached to them that I see it like this
In this film, "Song of the South," he is the representation of Joel Chandler Harris' "Uncle Remus" through whom Harris told the delightful stories of Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox, and Brer Bear. Remus is one of the greatest characters of all time in children's literature. It was one of the earliest books my parents bought me when I was about three years old! Still have it, though it's a little worse for wear, and still love it at 61 years old! :)
Pipichu Paola daddy
Fab mm,,,
your right i mean i think it looks a bit racist in my opinion but its a kid movie and some won't understand what the movie targets the meaning of the plot, they watch it cause it is charming, adorable and the animation mixed with real life looks stunning.
Pipichu Paola maybe because your not black haha
seeing this movie thru the eye and heart of a child, makes it beautiful, and that's how I will always remember it.
I laugh. Boy do I laugh. Nothing has changed. If you're working for a buck you're a slave -- no matter what color you are. The whole world is based on slavery and control through the god almighty buck. If you're lucky enough to find reason to sing then bully for you. I love this song and it lifts me up every time I listen.
The irony of life is that everyone is a slave to something either physically, socially or even mentally, but that does not stop anyone from being positive.
Totally agree
Yeah I'm black and I don't see anything racist with this song, and you know what?!; I'm gonna sing this song right out my lawn and imagine it just like him!
Man I wish movies were like this
I'm sick as hell of people bitching how racist this movie is. I never saw this as racist, at all!
I know! it is a great movie that should never have been banned. I'm glad I have a copy though!
(When the heck did being oblivious become a matter of pride?)
pigs18 How is it racist?Some slaves were happy and had nice owners.
GreedyCatGaming
Putting aside the whole "Nice people who thought it was okay to own other people" and moving onto....No wait, let's deal with this first. People who think it was okay to own other people weren't nice. They were assholes. Every one of them. Every single one of them. Anyone who takes another's freedom and claims it as their own is in no stretch of the word a nice or good person.
Moving on now. The movie actually takes place during the Reconstruction era after the passage of the 16th. The issue most people have with the movie is that it paints an image of post Civil War South that mostly exists in the mind of people that think that things couldn't have been "that bad" because "some of those people were nice." Your comment only reinforces the need to address stereotypes that are enforced in media.
Problem is these people are tenant farmers, not slaves. This was after slavery was abolished, and these people chose to stay on the plantation and continue working the farm. They could've left at any time.
I do not understand our society where something like Friday which portrays black people as criminals is "ok" but Song of the South which has a wise, kind, old black man helping out and serving as a father figure to a young white child is considered "racist"
Good point
I loved this movie as a kid, I don't understand why do many people see it as racist
why are the black people dressed like hillbillies
They are dressed like that because they are plantation workers
@robert howard lul
I remember watching this tape and singing along to the Disney Sing-Along-Songs which I still have this video tape. This was one of my fave Disney Sing-Along-Song tapes. Great memories.
I think most of the Disney Sing-A-Long Professor Owl only comes out of the beginning of the movies.
Can't have a black man walk down the road and sing a happy song, because it's a beautiful day outside.
walleye364 sure you can! You can have a black man doing anything he wants--singing, smiling, grinning, bowing and scraping--anything, as long as he doesn't THREATEN YOU in any way or force you to reckon with him as YOUR equal!!! As long as he is NOT your equal, sing away!!! "Entertain us happy man! We love your rhythm!!"
@robert howard fail how?
@robert howard Clown, this aint about pity.
this is just recognizing a white-wash when I see it.
I know the South. i live here. it wasnt "zippity-do-dah" if you were caught on the wrong side of the tracks after sundown. so unless you were there, shut up.
@@michaeljordan9879 Thanks for manning up and telling the truth! An honest man does my heart good, because the only way black and white will make it is to come clean with each other! That's it! There is NO other way! Then we can really love each other and work TOGETHER! (BTW, I, Mar L, am female! 😁)
2nd BTW, Robert Howard just likes to play devil's advocate. It's just a clever game. He knows the truth. Don't let him suck you in. I let him suck me in earlier. Now I know better.
Thanks again for speaking up!
@pillowjunkie5 Ikr?! If I want a history lesson, I'll watch the freaking history channel, not a kids' movie about a singing old man and a cartoon rabbit.
I don't see anything racist about the film per se, and it's probably because I wasn't taught to recognise or notice racial differences when I was little, or even care. To me, Uncle Remus is one of those people who never lets anything bother or get him down, and who always sees the positive in every situation like how Pollyanna does.
People just need to learn to take things at face value sometimes and not try to read into everything so much.
What is the actor name? :)
avrilfantasyrin
James Baskett.
+bjnboy and banning the people is just hiding something that really happened
bjnboy thanks ♡
I think I know what the problem is. This is a kids movie.
Wow. I used to watch this all the time when I was five years old. I am now 12 and this brings back all the good times.
Why is everybody saying he is a slave? He's not. He's a FORMER slave. So yes, he once was a slave, but is not a slave at any point during the movie. It takes place in the RECONSTRUCTION era, AFTER the Civil War.
Dude this is the 40s
Not 1870
He wasn’t even born in slavery
@@vall6154 the movie was realised in the 40's, but it is about the 1860's
Of course he was a slave. Do you really think slavery ended after the civil war? He wasnt called a slave anymore, but he still was.
I think it's interesting how everyone's like: "Omg that's so racist!!", and if you show this to a kid, they're like: "Oh look, that guy is happy, zippedidudah..."
Greatest uncle remus ! So well done !
Thanks 4 posting this jewel !!
You have to be extremely indoctrinated to find ANYTHING wrong in this wonderful film.
Google "whitewashing history". There were several things that are racially and historically insensitive in the film. I wish the film would be re-released and the extras on the Blu-Ray/DVD could include segments on the culture both of the times depicted in the film and the time of initial cinematic release. We need to recognize history for what it was and is.
@robert howard What exactly are they deciding? I can decide to watch the film or not, but I can't "decide" that it's not a mid twentieth century take on the 19th century.
@Hey there this rage MUST be a smokescreen for something far more internally signjficsnt going on within! When a person is internally peaceful, cursing and name-calling don't roll down like rivers of bitter waters!
Happiness isn't allowed in the post modern globalist world they're trying to create for us.
You must be angry, hateful and care about no one and no thing.
Or... You can ignore the left and enjoy life.
@@pigs18 It is not supposed to be historically correct. The guy steps into an animated world like Mary Poppins.
European here, why is this song considered racist? This dude is awesome and the song is awesome too...
because liberals and white guilt
***** One change, Europeans and fellow Africans enslaved them and shipped them over here.
***** I know the history and establishment of USA pretty well. Just don't get it. For example- here, in Bulgaria, we had it even worse. Way worse. Not only we were slaves under Ottoman (Turkish) rule, but there were cases of mass murder and annihilation of cities (!), killings of young men and women and so on... Pure annihilation and basically - genocide. But we don't think that some movie about that era is racist, even we WANT to remember that time, because we see how strong we could be, and how we can live through the worse. We respect our past, and in that past we've made our heroes. You get what I mean. And (for me) it's stupid to say that every movie about USA before the Civil War is racist, AND that leads to other stupidities like changing of the history. But that is other topic.
*****
I've had to check for more precise information. Yes, Greece was under Turkish rule too, from around 1450s when Constantinople and Athens fell, till around 1820. But it's off topic. I mean- this doesn't mean that a Greek depicted from that period is somehow racist...
Leah Koerner
I see, thank you, you made a good point. The movie (and context) aside, this character and actor is very awesome and positive guy. :)
*features a kind black man that sings a legendary song and is a positive influence on children and adults alike* "OMG RaCiST!!!!"
This isn't a story about putting down slaves or racism, it's a story that took place in the civil war era and just has slaves in it (because that would be historically correct.) The *story* is about a slave man who teaches a boy many good morals and lessons about life through fun, silly stories, and acts as a father figure during the boy's hard times (in which his real father is absent.) Uncle Remus is a slave, yes, but to get upset because of that fact would be completely ignoring the story's true message, which has nothing to do with the morality of slavery. (Plus, in no way was this movie putting slaves down, because Uncle Remus was the *hero* of the story!)
OH NO!! It's a happy Black guy. THIS SONG ISN'T RACIST!! Overly sensitive people. He's not a slave anymore. This takes place right after the civil war. Maybe he's happy because he's FREE!!!
The movie is set AFTER the Civil War. Slavery had been abolished before the events of Song of the South, book and movie. It's a great story where a man tells fables to teach children life lessons. Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah is one of Disney's most recognizable and popular songs in its history, and the other Brer Rabbit songs are just as fun.
Thank you for sharing this great song. Have a Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah day everyone!
He may be singing a happy song, but we all KNOW he has seen horrors his whole life. He's trying to see the good in life because he knows anger and bitterness will kill him. Is happiness to be considered racist? I would need to see the rest of the film.
I want whatever he's smoking
chuckle .
I love this song!! and he is the only one to sing it, perfectly!!! I remember seeing this on TV when I was little, and I Loved It.... Still Do!!! He has such a wonderful voice!!!
Racism is on people's mind. when i watch this film i don't see racism at all because myself, i'm not a racist :)
You should buy a shirt that says Im not racist
And have it be white
The welsh Yoshi with white text
research this film. the NAACP summarily boycotted it without giving it a review. I've sat through the film. and didn't find anything racist about it. unless you consider actors portraying characters that speak in the language and vocabulary of the time period it was set in. the overall plot of the film is that the main character is trying to convince his owner's daughter not to run away by telling her folk stories of brer rabbit. is slavery wrong? yes. did it happen? yes. deal with it.
+susubeardehart song of the south
+susubeardehart Usually places like your state fair will sell copies. Try eBay though many places like China still sell it.
NAACP sucks! Ugh, can’t stand them
I remember this when i was little... obsessed with the song! Awesome memories. :)
For all of you who fail to realize why this is racist, consider this: For a black man in the late 19th century to be happy go lucky and singing in the South of the late 1800s, he would have to be dropping acid, high as a kite and seeing animated birds and insects flying around, Look at his eyes at 1:38--high out of his mind...Half joking but this is about context people. The guy who plays Uncle Remus could not even attend the Atlanta premiere because of segregation.
Most people don't know the history of the author of the Animal Tales which are the basis of this movie. Joel Chandler Harris was born illegitimate. The only people who would let him play with his kids were the African Americans. He learned these stories at the knees of African American storytellers. When he grew up, he recorded what he had heard as an homage to the people who had accepted him.
Joel Sax CL ALB
yup, he was one of the only people who cared enough to ever record these old slave stories he'd heard growing up, some of which came from Africa originally, but people still assume he was a pro-slavery racist
This song always makes me happy even if everyone gets mad about it my dad always sings it when he is happy and u have heard it all my life and i dont think anything bad about it, it just reminds me of good memories and times from when i was younger or even just last week
he high af
Funny how everyone is commenting that this is racist when you should be commenting on another video considering the fact the SONG itself is not racist one bit. So of you are going to say the song is racist please get out
oh i loved this movie so much :)
I never understood why this was supposed to be racist. A black man being happy.. what is he supposed to be angry at white people 24/7?
This movie is racist because it is a completely inaccurate depiction of what black people went through during the reconstruction era in the South. This is the time of that the KKK was at its height, in which thousands of black people were tortured and earned incredibly low wages for gruesome work (so low that it was practically slavery, which is what the whites in the south wanted). Black people were put in incredible debt, physically and mentally tortured, segregated from attending the most basic of facilities. They were not protected by the law and were treated as subhuman. This movie depicts black people as being somehow happy even though many died on the field, were raped, brutally lynched, discriminated, and put in incredible debt. Their conditions were no better than slavery. It's cruel to show kids that freedmen of the south during reconstruction were happy, even when their conditions were similar of the proletariate of Russia under Tzar Nicholas. It's disgusting.
What, you mean it's inaccurate that singing cartoon birds flew around when wise old black men sung songs? Yes they were poor, yes many were treated quite badly, but their lives usually weren't hell on earth. EVERYBODY was poor in the south at that point for the most part. The Uncle Remus stories were simply an attempt to capture traditional African folklore and provide simple entertainment for children in a very trying time. But people like you just have to go an ruin that but judging everything through 21st century glasses. I hate to break it to you, but some Nazis didn't kill Jews, some bankers aren't out to screw the little guy, some cops enjoy protecting and serving, and some reconstruction era literary works don't have some evil, racist ulterior motive.
+CapAnson12345 well said ... never understood how this got everyone angry when their are worse racist movies out there that are allowed to be put on dvd ... yet this one is band .... o_O ... They say it's not to history but... its a pigging movie about a happy man singing to a cartoon bird telling cute stories to kids to teach them lessons ... where's the racism???
satisfactchl'
Beautiful song and movie.
Beautiful
OMFG, he's like a black santa
The problem with America is right here in the comment section. Can you guys actually utilize your God given brains and think exactly WHY this film is racist? We are truly failed if people don't know how to analyze history and cannot correlate and decide on their own terms.
It was 1946 when this film was made, but I don't find this even a bit racist.
CrissCrossBob True
No, the young generation can’t think for themselves. They would jump off a cliff if that was the popular opinion. It’s really really sad.
I know a lot of people get offended by this movie and this clip. But when I was a kid watching this, I didn't know anything about racism or that anybody could possibly hate someone else just because of their skin. It made me happy to hear the song and still whenever I wake up in the morning and I just feel happy, I whistle this song. Doing so makes my day even better. I don't care about all that extra crap as much as it may be intended to offend. This song all by its self still makes me happy.
I'm offended by the moles in mini-skirts.
i dont get it. whats so racist? i dont see no slavery
***** Back up your statement, you fuck. Where's the racism?
***** Does your head chafe from all your fedoras?
***** Are you, by chance, 13 years old? Or is that an overestimation?
***** Please, by the generous grace of you knowledge, enlighten us. What about this video is racist?
***** so what's so fucking racist about it? come on girl! SPIT IT OUT!!!
When I was a kid in early 90's, Hardee's had this promotion where they gave you VHS tapes of all the Disney songs with lyrics similar to this one. All the clips were taken from Disney movies except for this one. It had a video of kids having fun at Disneyland instead. Now that I'm 29 and knowing what I know, I understand why they didn't go with this clip :)
I love this song! Reminds me of my Disneyland trips as a child.
Regardless of what these overly politically-correct people keep complaining about, I find this song very heartwarming and cheerful. It just makes me happy :)
I see nothing racist about this clip. A black man, whether he was a slave or not, is having one of those rare "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" days. Regardless if the setting was supposed to emulate the harshest, most racist times of America, it doesn't mean Black people couldn't find the simple joys in things such as singing a song to ease the pain.
I don't know why that guy "bigraviolee" is getting so upset in the comments. I think people can't agree on a standard operational definition of racisim. This clip is simply taking place in a racist and hateful time, yet he can still find ways simple joys to be happy. It's a pretty simple lesson, people. The world isn't fair, but it doesn't mean you can't find ways to be happy. Simple as that.
I'm black/white AND a christian, and really dont find this racist
A random puppy dog of doom LMFAO.
My mum love this, she is 81 and still remembers it!
Seriously though, can someone tell me how is it racist? I'm curious. Is it because this man is enjoying the good day? Or what, because he is a bit clumsy? He is an old man! Jesus.
apparently it has something to do with slavery or something like that :/
Vanessa Burdett but there is no indication that he is a slave. Or maybe I'm missing something.
I really don't.
Honestly, straightforward labeling something as "racist" or "not-racist" is kind of a disservice to modern racial matters.
Actually, the song on its own merits seems to reflect more on blue collar workers then any race IMO
The problem is when the film is taken as a whole it does romanticize southern plantation life specifically.
***** No where in the movies does it say they are slaves it is an inference, they are plantation workers, and contrary to popular belief not every plantation during slavery had unhappy slaves who worked until the couldn't and got beaten until they could, some of them where treated humans (They still couldn't leave though) and when Uncle Remus leave the plantation later it is a clear sign that he was not a slave, slaves didn't just leave.
Why aren't there comments
i dunno
I was just humming this today and had to look it up. Gosh, I was only 8 years old. Stuff sticks in our mind for decades.
Turning things innocent as racist. That's a psychological trip on weaker minds. I'm a dick and I don't see nuthin' but a happy song. I knew the dude was black because we share a name and I learned him young. Never thought nothing but what the song intends. While we're trippin' on racism though. Everybody treated everybody very poorly over the course of history. We're moving to the next level, where people can be self-reliant and have no need to take advantage of others. People reluctant to move on, drag us backwards with slavery talk. Slave means Slav, as in Polish or Lithuanian etcetera. I want redress from those mean Mongols and Egyptians. Better than that, I want to progress to where nobody gives a smurf anymore and we worry about current issues. Now can we just discuss Brer Rabbit again?
I'm guessing it's racist because the black guy gets interrupted by singing white kids? lol
I don't understand how other films like gone with the wind and others managed not to get band yet this one does o_O ... am I missing something?
No, it's racist because the one black kid tripped while the white kids didn't. This represents the oppression of African-Americans during the nineteenth century and thus, this movie is worse the Hitler.
+Cornflack I'm gonna assume your joking
Cornflack O_o.... i'm not good with getting jokes.... so I will ask... are you joking?
+LittleMissSunshine85 +Gurl Of Minecraft
Of course I'm not joking. This film is clearly worse than Hitler.
my favourite song as a child.
The only thing racist I see is the black kid is wearing ragged cloths and no shoes while the white kids have shoes and higher quality cloths.
That would be historically accurate. This was after the Civil War when the slaves had recently been freed and were often still in conditions of what is called economic slavery (i.e. being enslaved by economic circumstance). The black kid at that time would have been the son of a sharecropper. The white kids would have been the children of the former slave-owner. So the latter would be better clothed and fed. How would it help to falsify the history and show the black kid dressed in nice new clothes same as the white kids?
bill3209 Even though this is 5 years ago, I want to give my two cents. Even though it is racist, it's still historically accurate, which I think is ok to show in a movie. If we whitewash the past, we are doomed to commit the same mistakes that we've already commited.
If more kids saw this today, they'd be confused. Mommy, why is this man happy and singing to children instead of on the news dead from robbing or wanted by police? So I guess it is better not to send mixed messages and stick with what kids have been seeing since this movie was no longer available. Good job, liberals.
So what you're saying is, since what kids see on tv today is black people getting arrested (awesome to know what you would choose to let children see is the terrible news where all you see are apparently racist cops, instead of oh i don't know maybe cartoons?), seeing a happy, smiling, singing black man who has overcome slavery is a bad thing for our nation's children to see? I really hope you don't have kids, no need to raise more self-proclaimed righteous "modernists" who are actually just racist assholes in the world.
Carolyn Barriere I'm pretty sure his latter statement was sarcasm.
Carolyn Barriere You...you just have no ready comprehension. Sad.
Carolyn Barriere Do you have any comprehension of satire?
yeah because those are the only two personas that black people have right?
idiot...
My great grandmother loved this Disney movie because it was never released on tape she had a bootlegged copy of it. This song reminds me of her all the time.
It's racist cuz they made the black kid trip.....jk
BeanCrazy 😂
And just who gives a rat's ass about whether ot not it was intended to be racial. It's a marvelous song by a great singer!
I used to watch him all the time as a kid and sing the song. He was the coolest
such a great voice. so sad that he passed 2 years later.
His point is understood though .