We work all day, we work all night We never learned to read or write We're happy-hearted roustabouts Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! When other folks have gone to bed We slave until we're almost dead We're happy-hearted roustabouts Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! Ugh! Hike! We don't know when we get our pay And when we do, we throw our pay away The workers, or "roustabouts" are illiterate, joyous laborers who fritter their hard-earned money away. But that's nothing compared to how the writers of the film treat the (literally) faceless black laborers depicted in the 1941 Disney classic, who sing an interesting song as they help set up the circus our title character calls home. His ears were so damn big that the animals shunned him and nicknamed him "Dumbo." Talk about mean. was always different than the other elephants. The roustabouts and the crows from "Dumbo" An editorial review of a set of Popeye cartoons from 1941 to 1943 warns: "The war-themed cartoons feature outrageous racial caricatures of the Japanese." " Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba and his Forty Thieves," a cartoon from 1937, included racist caricatures of Arabs and their culture.Īnd Popeye cartoons during World War II, like a lot of American media of the time, were also incredibly politically incorrect and racist in depictions of the Japanese.
Hana Mana Ganda Hana Mana Ganda We translate for you Hana means what mana means And ganda means that, too Why does he ask you, "How?" Why does he ask you, "How?" Once the Injun didn't know All the things that he know now But the Injun, he sure learn a lot And it's all from asking, "How?" The tribe, led by their chief, answers with a song that paints American Indian languages as nonsense and attributes their pigmentation to "the very first Injun prince" who "kissed a maid and start to blush." Hau (not how) actually means hello in the Lakota language, but the song gives an alternative explanation. And racism, too. The tribe of supposed American Indians that the kids meet early in their journey to Neverland are big-nosed, red-skinned stereotypes of our continent's original people who the kids ask questions like "what made the red man red?" and "why does he ask you 'how'?"
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The character is widely panned as exemplifying "negative racial stereotyping" and connoting inequality between African-Americans and Caucasians. While filmmakers initially tried to sidestep perceptions of racism with King Louie by casting an Italian-American singer (Louis Prima) in the role rather than Louis Armstrong, whom the part was originally written for, the character still strongly violated the ethos of social progress.ĭisney's 1953 animated film "Peter Pan" is a story about siblings who follow a flying boy who never grows up into a magical world full of adventure. was a jazzy ape whose language skills were considered much less refined than those of the film's other animals and who sang "I Wanna Be Like You" to the orphaned human boy Mowgli. But the monkeys and King Louie speak a brand of slang clearly meant to mock African Americans, as Amanda Bell wrote for Yahoo Movies: King Louie, an orangutan, rules the monkeys in Disney's "The Jungle Book." But it's clear in the iconic 1967 animated version of the film that he and his underlings aren't like the other animals in the jungle.įor one, most other characters speak clear English or have British accents. Here are some of the most racist cartoon characters of all time: King Louie from "The Jungle Book" My love and appreciation for animation hasn't waned much since I've been "a grown up," but my awareness now is a lot better than when I was 10. This expanded consciousness has led to the realization of a painful fact: A lot of cartoon characters I enjoyed were pretty racist - and there's scores of other characters before my time that make those characters look like card carrying members of the NAACP.
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