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>>11380439
I think you’re conflating the film and the book anon.

Harris did his best for his time and place, and Br’er rabbit is hardly forgotten among black people, thanks perhaps to his preservational work.

But the Disney movie does not have Harris’ excuse. The film was considered racist even for its time, as pic related, a headline from the New York Times the week the movie was released, proves.

No one has forgotten Song of the South either - it’s widely known along with that Fantasia short as that really racist Disney movie. And for the context of 1946, and not the 1880’s, that is pretty regressive.

The only think that has changed is that the movie and the book is no longer shown to kids unexpurgated. It is, however, widely watched and read by adults as a historical relic. Why does that upset you?