We all know why they're getting rid of SM. It's because the movie it's based on is a abhorrent, stolen bastardization of African folktales and people keep bringing it up when each killing of unarmed black person hit a major news cycle. With each incident people started digging.

Digging into EVER company, public figure, both young and old, etc's background and they kept bringing up SotS and by proxy Splash in relation to Disney. Along with Sunflower and that one Mickey Mouse short where Mickey and the gang puts on a minstrel show(look it up), and dumbo

With each incident more and more people began to banish racist/problematic figures away. Confederate statues, statues of colonizers, and racist characters like Auntie Jemima and the Popeyes lady(seriously I haven't seen the Popeyes lady in years even though Popeyes is blowing up)

SotS always leads the charge with these things for Disney. And with each incident people learned more and more and more about how bad it was. On top of this, because of the internet, even though the movie that hasn't been distributed in the US it's easy to find on YouTube easily.

White society, well a lot of societies, but especially white society doesn't care about how something is, just how it looks/is perceived. Case in point, slavery. People knew slavery was going on but until Uncle Tom's Cabin nobody knew how BAD it was. The perception changed.

People didn't like how ugly the truth was. Same with Jim Crow, lynching, and now police brutality. For years white America heard these things happened but once what was done in the dark came to light white people saw how abhorrent it was and couldn't deny these things took place.

Same goes for SotS/Splash. This is all just me thinking here, but Disney doesn't want to bury SotS because they seem to think it's morally a terrible film that was a mistake for those reasons, they just don't want people to SEE it so they don't LOOK like their racist.

It's not just a movie. The movie is one thing. I mean Warner Bros. has like a million of those racist cartoons. But the difference between Disney and WB is that WB didn't build a whole ass ride THREE DAMN TIMES OVER, based on one of their racist cartoons. WB actually banned them.

All this inclusion stuff does have a lot to do with white guilt. But Disney didn't APOLOGIZE for SotS and splash. Iger, Chapek, D'amaro nope. Not once. That doesn't seem to me like Tiana is being done outside of anything but to save face and to, again, LOOK good.

Say what you will about WB. Arguably their cartoons are wwwaaaayyyyy worse and copious than Disney's in terms of racism. But at the least, they ACKNOWLEDGE, and they OWN their past mistakes when apologizing. It could also be a bunch of corporate BS but it's better than silence.

Remember this video from a year ago? Disney wouldn't even let the panel we say in NOLA a few years back say the word black. They had to scurt around it as if they didn't want to trigger anyone and that's really dumb. Because it's again about the LOOK.

If you really feel bad about Splash you would let these folks keep it 100% and say they are proud to be making a ride that has the BLACK talent, for story about a BLACK icon, so that little BLACK boys and girls have a ride to see themselves at Disney as well as their counterparts

But no, you won't even let them acknowledge that this is a ride that is basically an a "apology" for an abhorrent ride and that this is now a better seat at the table than the one we were given before. At worst it just feels so disingenuous and at best it feels cowardly.

Ultimately I love PatF and it's way better than Song of the South hands down. But my problem is this feels like a parent apology. You know how when your parent did something messed up and instead of apologizing they give you something/be benevolent?

That's how this feels. Disney doesn't admit their wrong. They won't admit why their changing it even though Babar is literally on the couch in the living room. Your company made a terrible film back in the day and you stupidly made a ride out of it. Just own it and apologize.

I know it'll be weird denouncing it while also having SM in TDL. But regardless of that, I think admitting it is more important because it doesn't seem like Disney really thinks this is bad, they just don't like how it makes them look and that's my overall problem with this mess.

All in all these are just my thoughts on the matter. I'm looking forward to Tiana and I'm so happy I'll have more black representation in a theme park, a space I love, but what would really make me happy is if Disney grew a spine, acknowledged SotS, and condemned it out right

I read read this bih three goddamn times and I still have mad types. Each time I read "their" when I was supposed to put "they're" I cringe. Gdi

@TCJaalin Disney doesn't need to apologize for Splash Mountain. The only thing Splash Mountain has in common with the film Song of the South is the characters that's it. The attraction is not a retailing of the film Song of the South.

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