Friday, April 18, 2008

Things you do not expect to see flying around



Admit it,you gangstas and pimps and d-boys,beneath the tough exterior,you secretly dig cartoons.I know I do.I love Dumbo.In fact,I would consider myself an old school Disney fan,Dumbo,Lady and the Tramp,Jungle Book,Little Mermaid,Snow White,Sleeping Beauty,Bambi,Aladdin,Lion King anyone?They used to make good cartoons,with good plots and whatnots,and the characters are just so...real.So human-like.You shed tears when Bambi's mother died (In fact, parents protested the killing scene because their children were so traumatized by it),you go awwww and all warm and fuzzy when Tramp and Lady shared a plate of spaghetti,and want to throw the cup you are holding at the screen when the other elephants boycotted Dumbo's mama.Now they just make shitty fuckups like the mono-colored Brother Bear.Who wanna watch a cartoon about bears anyway?Unless the bear is Baloo. *hums Bare Necessities*

Anyway,the above clip is from Dumbo.I used to love this song a lot,and was one of my favourite parts in the cartoon.Of course back then i did not noticed that the crows were talking in stereotypical African American accents.Having a fag.Or talking in ebonics ("But I've BEEN DONE seen about everything?")Or that they were coincidentally black crows.Maybe it has something to do with Jim Crow? Some would say this is akin to having a minstrel show in a cartoon,but then again here the crows are the good guys who help Dumbo,while the antagonists are those of his own kind.Anyway i still love this movie all the same, and racial stereotyping in cartoons had existed for a long time,and can be evident in a lot of Disney cartoons (or other cartoons for that matter),go watch those old school gems,and maybe you will see some things that you didn't realized when you were seven.

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