Um… it was a minstrel show song. How is saying that actual fact “erasing” someone’s heritage. The people in American who had their heritage erased were not white Americans…
That’s a very simplistic understanding of what minstrel shows actually were. they were the backbone of popular culture in this country for over a century. And they were not just “making fun” of Black people, they were a key feature of shoring up white supremacy.
Ignoring the roots of the song is erasing history.
You know, Hitler had a lovely singing voice.
The point was that the song wasn’t invented by the minsteral shows. They stole it from the slaves. And then we stole it from them again by saying that just because it was used to make fun of slaves, you are not allowed to include it in your culture anymore. In effect we’re reinforcing the destruction of the original culture. It’s yet another case where some undesirable group decides to appropriate an otherwise innocent aspect of the culture and everybody maddeningly just goes along with it and allows them to completely own it.
The Nazi edgelords will start saying saying Happy Birthday is code for kill all Jews and the response isn’t to say “no, that’s stupid we aren’t going to allow it” but instead “we can’t have birthdays anymore because they are racist”. It’s massively irresponsible to allow culture to be defined by extremists and assholes. Every time you say “you can’t use that phrase/action/song/etc… anymore, it’s a dogwhistle” you’re handing them more power. You become an enabler of extremism.
Do you have any valid citations to back up that claim?
That’s “Nigger Love a Watremelon,” not “Zippity Do Dah,” which is the song you’ve been repeatedly claiming was authored by slaves, then appropriated by White folks.
I ask again; do you have any verifiable sources for that claim?
The film was racist as fuck, too. It was STILL from minstrel shows and erasing that history does a shit load of damage because it ignores the century of systemic racism.
Contralto, you know, because of the one, um…
So the ride is “It’s a Small World” plus a few descents. OK.
I suppose getting cooled off a bit on a hot day would be nice.
Not really - it’s actually a pretty immersive and impressive sensory experience, putting aside the origin of its theming. A VASTLY better technical experience than IaSW (though I must admit to a nostalgic affection for that one). Regardless, it’s time to make the change. I think using TPatF as the new theme makes more sense, anyway, given the water-based nature of the ride.
You don’t come off IaSW so soaked you have to spend 30 minutes in the sun drying off. But beyond that, the animatronics are present in a significant portion of the “slow” segments of the ride, even though kids to whom they’re supposed to be appeal (and many adults) have no idea who these distinctive characters are or why they’re doing what they’re doing.
Next can can remove the cannibals from the jungle cruise, and the cigar Indians? There’s still plenty of racism left.
According to Teh Wiki, “Turkey in the Straw”, the basis for “Ol’ Zip Coon” (which in turn supplied the lyrics to “Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah”) has its ultimate origins in an Irish ballad called “The Old Rose Tree”. So no, it wasn’t authored by and stolen from slaves. No, the victimised and mocked group isn’t having their culture erased. And no, “censoring progressives” are not making the song and the movie it was created for a dog whistle – the film’s creators did that.
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