Bob Blaylock
Diamond Member
- Banned
- #61
I will admit, I haven't seen the entire movie as an adult. I do believe it was still available in the 1960's when I was a child, so I know kids of my generation sand "Zippity-do-da". It was re-released in 1972, so I may have seen it then.
The clips I've seen of it, though, are bad enough.
Here's where black people and white people who don't belong to racist cults have an issue with it... It portrayed the social order of the antebellum South as benign. It's the same objection people had to Gone with the Wind.
Black people are depicted more favorably than white people (at least than white adults), in this movie.
What you are calling “racist” is an accurate depiction of the social order, however good or ill you may think of that order, in the time and place where the movie is set.
By your logic, almost any reasonable depiction of many points in history would be condemned as “racist”.