Boycott Disney until they release this film

I'm sick of supporting this smarmy, greedy, hypocritical company for anything they do. That sexist pig Michael "pretty women aren't funny" Eisner pulled the film out of circulation thinking it would make racism go away, but it didn't (police are still targeting unarmed POCs disproportionately while targeting people), yet they still exploit its sum parts with theme park rides, costumed characters, and the omnipresence of "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" which has been covered by artists of all races in every imaginable style. Meanwhile, Germany committed one of the worst mass murders of the 20th century and they still got it anyway along with a Blu-ray of its Ralph Bakshi satire COONSKIN.

Modern Disney can barely make films that are even nominally different from their predecessors anymore, but in the rare instance that they do, they're still looking to it for ideas just like they have been for the last 70 years. ZOOTOPIA's story about a fox and a rabbit (with white voice actors in an unambiguously heterosexual love story, while the Br'ers in SotS have no female love interests to speak of) owes them at least that much acknowledgement. All the other live-action/animation hybrids that came afterwards owe their existence to this, especially that obscenely overrated one about that white woman who flies over England in an umbrella singing about the virtues of simple carbohydrates (I will not give her the undeserved dignity of mentioning her name). The perpetual availability of these ersatz Uncle Remii is no substitute for the real deal.

Disney knows they won't lose money if they release it, and that if there's a threat of a boycott, that there'll be a retaliatory buycott for sure. I'll certainly be one of the first in line to buy it. I'll buy multiple copies if I have to. That b@@ts of the film still are traded proves there's a demand, but those copies are of inferior quality and do not do justice to the Technicolor cinematography or the animation.

It is NOT a racist film. It is not anti-anyone; the only thing it's against is the whole concept of "anti" itself. The critics are the racist ones, and not just racist, but homophobic, too. The reasons the Favors boys beat up Johnny were the same reasons many gay boys and girls in the South and elsewhere in the world are still getting beaten up today. It's the same reason Empire's Lucious Lyon put Jamal in a garbage can when he was eight. For that reason and more, we need this masterpiece back in the public eye and kept available in perpetuity just as all the other hybrids are. How would you feel if they kept this alive and treated Uncle Remus as if he were Jesus but pulled that white woman with the umbrella from circulation? You'd probably feel the way I do about their current policy.

I've had it with their excuses and stonewalling. Between this, the endless strip-mining of the past through soulless revisionist technocratic remakes and reboots, the gutting of Disneyland and Disney World and systematic cutting of corners that resulted in a toddler's death, their utterly lazy and insulting policy of only releasing live-action catalog titles on bare-bones Blu-rays you can only get through a club, and the last straw of the needless re-butchering of Bedknobs and Broomsticks after having restored the original cut (with all due respect to Roger Rabbit and Elliott, it is the best of the post-SotS hybrids IMO), I am actively boycotting this company until they release the film. I have even told them so myself. If you feel the same way, write to Disney and DEMAND that they re-release the film.

Write to them at:

Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
500 S Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521

And call them at:

800-723-4763 (U.S.)

888-877-2843 (Canada)

And make every opportunity to call them and write them, and keep telling them until they do it. Tell them your future support of the company for any reason depends on it. We don't want any trouble, we don't want to hurt anyone, we just want the friggin' movie. But we will not stand down for any reason, nor will we give any legitimacy to concern trolls pretending this film's critics are anything other than censorious puritans. Everyone who bashed this film and offered rapist Bill Cosby as a "respectable" black role model are part of the problem, too. It's one thing not to like a film, but to actively forbid those who do from owning a copy is beyond the pale.