February 11, 2023
How Disney Fuels Racism
By
Jack Bovee
Disney, the once-great corporation universally admired in the 1950s and 1960s, is today deliberately working to help fuel racism amongst our most innocent citizens, young children. A recent production of Disney’s
The Proud Family put forth yet another false narrative about our nation’s history -- that Black slaves “built this nation” and that Blacks today deserve reparations “for every moment we spend submerged in this systemic prejudice, racism, and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for.” To illustrate this last point, the cartoon showcases a picture of a young Black man with his palms turned up and the words “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” written on them. The film features predominately Black girls angrily denouncing the Founding Fathers and at one point shows the presidential images on Mount Rushmore being replaced with the likes of Harriett Tubman, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass -- the “real” champions of freedom. Lincoln is deliberately snubbed as the girls proclaim “we can only free ourselves... emancipation was not freedom.” No context, of course, is supplied for these outlandish charges, thus exposing the cartoon for the racist propaganda that it is.
Disney has certainly declined from the company that virtually every home was tuned in to watch in television’s formative years. In earlier times, Disney regularly featured wholesome, patriotic portrayals of America’s past that influenced generations of children. Recently, however, it has worked diligently to promote the leftist goal to “fundamentally change America.” One
executive producer has admitted she deliberately infused gay-lifestyle themes into as many productions as possible. Disney’s Diversity and Inclusion Manager, Vivian Ware,
led the effort to ditch the words ladies, gentlemen, boys, and girls in its theme parks in order to not alienate transgender children. The company has already pulled or posted warning labels to old
movie favorites such as
Dumbo,
Peter Pan,
Aristocats,
Swiss Family Robinson, and
Song of the South for their being deemed offensive to minorities.
It fired the conservative star of
The Mandalorian,
Gina Carano, for posting to a social media site her criticism of attacks upon Republicans. Secretly recorded Critical Race Theory training for Disney staff has blamed all whites for "systemic racism" and instructed them to never “question or debate Black colleagues’ lived experience.” Disney’s white employees were also asked to complete a “
white privilege checklist” with such qualifiers as “I am a man,” “I still identify as the gender I was born in,” and “I have never been raped.” Upon discovering this, Chris Rufo rightly argued that “the Magic Kingdom is a house of lies” because it has used slave and child labor, filmed
Mulan near Uighur concentration camps, and censored its content for the Chinese Communist Party.
