Oh come on! This is such a Mickey Mouse charge. He’s just being Goofy. 
The neigh do wells at Breitbart and Stormfront must be appalled at the attack on Snow White.
AG Jefferson Beauregard Sessions is now investigating why there are no restored copies of Song of the South.
Ah, “Song of the South.” I believe I, as a tot, saw its very last theatrical release. (Back in the olden days, before streaming, Blueray, DVD, VCR, or even Betaxmas and Laserdisk, Disney used to re-release the classics in the vault every x years, they ran as first run movies on the A circuit time after time, and people went to see them, if only to inflict the same traumatizing terror on their children that they themselves experienced when they were kids.)
Never to be seen again, and yet still less grotesquely offensive than “Gone With the Wind” which still gets shown on TV all the time.
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Disney used to re-release the classics in the vault every x years, they ran as first run movies on the A circuit time after time.
I never saw Song of the south in a theater, only clips on TV. The Frank Zappa tune Uncle Remus is a biting satire on it and race in general.
I remember when they did this. They’d rerelease say Fantasia in some of the upscale theaters like a Ziegfeld. The neighborhood houses would get the latest Disney fare like Herbie, the Love Bug and Boatninks with Robert Morse and the vivacious Stephanie Powers with some shorts thrown in. Disney from his frozen crypt knew how to keep the audience clamoring for product.
The very thing that made Song of the South less offensive than Gone With the Wind is that there are no depictions of enslaved people deeply happy and satisfied with their servitude and loyally devoted to their masters, particularly Scarlett who, frankly, was the type most at risk of being poisoned by the enslaved cook.
Disney was determined to make the movie, but knew he was dealing with dynamite that could either get him boycotted by every theater in the south or set off a wave reputation damaging of protest and condemnation in the north. So he set the story in the 1880s (which, after all, was when Chandler actually heard the stories) and portrayed Remus as a freedman and retired retainer to wash away that part of the stain, but they also sanitized away some of the more overt “this is how you survive as an enslaved person and resist where and how you can, the theft of your labor and freedom” aspects to the stories.
He still got condemned for avoiding the unavoidable, but he basically managed to tread that line. No depictions of enslaved people happy to be enslaved because of their own inferiority and the kindness and benevolence of their owners, but also the reduction of the stories to funny animal tales, with the obviousness of Br’er Fox and Bear’s being overseers rubbed away and King Lion, the plantation owner perfectly capable of killing you if not handled carefully, entirely omitted.
But still, that one’s in the vault, while we are still periodically subjected to Gone With the Wind, and Big Sam, shovel in hand, cheerfully announcing “we’s gone dig for de Souf, Miz Scarlett!” and saving her from the pillaging, raping Yankees on TV.
The worst part being that the novel Scarlett is an even nastier piece of work than the movie Scarlett.
Back in the mid-70’s when I was a teen one of our local movie houses ran the revival of Gone With the Wind. MGM would do this with their classics every few years so a new generation would be exposed to them. We went as a family to see it. My movie tastes consisted of the hip edgy 60’s-70’s fare. From Shampoo, Klute, McCabe, Wonka to The Godfather. I was bored for most of the 3 plus hours of it. I was ready to say “Come on General Sherman, get on with it”