Painfully Racist Disney Moments They Wish You Would Forget

By Michael Avery in Entertainment On 4th October 2016
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#1 Dumbo

The crows alongside Dumbo are depicted as uneducated and lazy, as they speak in jive slang and are led by their leader, ‘Jim Crow'.

#2 The Little Mermaid

In the "Under the Sea" singing scene, a crooning blackfish briefly appears then leaves the screen. Some say it isn't racially sensitive. What are your thoughts?

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#3 Fantasia

The character "Sunflower" in Fantasia is a black centaur who seems to be elated to serve the white centaurs.

#4 Aladdin

Though the movie is set in Arabia, Aladdin is seemingly unfamiliar about his Arabic culture, while Jafar, the villain, is dark complected and possesses stereotypical Arabic traits.

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#5 Peter Pan

It is said that the tone of the songs performed in the movie have a racial connotation to them.

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#6 Mickey’s Man Friday

In the 1935 film, Mickey's Man Friday, Mickey saves an African native from cannibals, then tells him, "You be my man, Friday," before patting him on the head.

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#7 Lady and the Tramp

The Siamese cats were said to be portraying Asian stereotypes: slanted eyes, bucked teeth, and poor English. Not to mention, they possessed a shifty, evil nature.

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#8 The Three Little Pigs

There's a scene where The Big Bad Wolf is dressed up like a Nazi. Disney's rebuttal is that this was filmed before Hitler.

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#9 Song of the South

Well, if it isn't painfully obvious. Set on a plantation in Georgia, Uncle Remus is presumably a former slave who tells stories to entertain a young, white boy, while singing songs about "the good old days."

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#10 Pocahontas

Pocahontas' happy ending whitewashes history by failing to acknowledge that white settlers brutally slew and oppressed Native Americans.

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#11 Check out the video and see for yourself