Mickey Mouse was a racist pig!

[Cooley Hurd]

http://www.momentsintime.com/Disney%20Book%20Page.htm



<snip> (caps from original text) THE BOOK WAS CENSORED FROM BEING PUBLISHED IN THE NEWSPAPERS DUE TO ITS INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT. THE WORD "N*****" IS USED SEVERAL TIMES IN THE TEXT. THIS BOOK WAS AUTHORIZED BY WALTER E. DISNEY. IT ALSO INCLUDES SNOW-WHITE. THIS ITEM WILL BE HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BY COLLECTORS OF VINTAGE DISNEYANA AND BLACK HISTORIANS.
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Who knew? :shrug:

[Deja Q]

1. Even as a kid, Disney's creations seemed lame and lifeless

Dunno why.

As an adult, I wonder how he got popular to begin with. His own creations stunk and he had to plagerize or buy other peoples' works ("Snow White" to name one).

Heck, they even call it "Disney DVD" when they were one of the companies who WAITED to jump into the DVD industry, they hardly took the plunge.

[joeybee12]

2. I never liked Mickey, but blame Walt, not the poor mouse

Walt was a real fascist.

Also, I never cared for Disney cartoons as a kid either--I liked the Looney Tunes ones.

[Catch22Dem]

3. Looney Tunes

Is second to NONE

[Breezy du Nord]

4. Defintiely less corny

Foghorn leghorn was what my dad and I would watch to gether. (think he liked it better than I did :P)

[NightTrain]

5. Err.... Mickey Mouse was a cartoon character

If anybody was a racist pig, it was Walt Disney. And he may have been just a product of his generation, which was raised to say "nigger" like my generation said "black."

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Thank you! *whew!*

Glad you pointed that out for me... I'd better double-up on my anti-psychotic meds! ;-)

[Zomby Woof]

6. no surprise

Our history is rife with now-hidden racist pop cultural artifacts. I never cared for Disney myself, and I prefer Looney Tunes, but they had their share of racist cartoons now not fit for public mass consumption - I saw some at an animated film festival in Seattle some years ago. They had a few cartoons portraying black people with the worst sorts of caricatures and stereotypical behaviors, although the worst epithet in their case was "darkie", but still, cringe-inducing stuff.