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Ban Jungle Book Too!

posted 15 years ago by mjprogue
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I mean come on...the only part in this movie for a black man was as an ape...singing swing?!?!? Oh...so a black man wasn't needed to sing any of the typical disneyesque music, they had to import one to sing "black" music...and then the only animal in the jungle Disney felt could be voiced by a black man was an ape? Anyone missing the insult buried in there?

So we all need to get together and get the NAACP to start a ban on Jungle Book...this dangerous movie absolutely cannot be allowed to continue its vile and insidious campaign to turn the youth of America into racist scumbags. Its bad enough we have to listen to skin heads humming "zippedy doo dah"...can you imagine the horror if they graduated to "the Bear Necessities"?...<shiver>

Once this has been done, we can examine other potential training propaganda for Nazi youth...I've always had suspiscions about why Mary Poppins didn't nanny for black children...and seven little white guys get to live with a white girl and no little black men are invited? Oh and the mine where they work...ever hear of fair hiring practices? That foreman has some explainging to do!

I could go on and on...but one battle at a time...

[–] esskayess 15 years ago

How about "Blazing Saddles?" N-words galore and it gets a free pass. I'm not for banning it, either, but what a pack of morons to ban a film like SotS, which has not a scintilla of racism anywhere.

"You cannot erase God with an edict." - Rod Serling

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[–] alcockell 15 years ago

Umm - I think you'll find Louis Prima was white.

http://www.louisprima.com/images/3.jpg

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[–] bjlevine 14 years ago

Doh!!!

[–] caracallac 14 years ago

Skin heads humming "zippedy doo dah"... and seven little white guys get to live with a white girl and no little black men are invited.

ROTFLMFAO

[–] TheLittleSongbird 14 years ago

No, Jungle Book is NOT racist and never was. Louis Prima was actually white, sorry to be rude, but get your facts right before writing. Also Jungle Book is a classic, terrific music and a great voice cast, not to mention a cool and calculating villain and one of the coolest characters ever in a Disney film(Baloo!).

"Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage"- Madeleine Kahn(CLUE, 1985)

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[–] razor12 14 years ago

This was almost as bad as saying about horror movies, "this movie's racist because the black guy dies" (even though about 10 white people die prior to him along with the rest of the cast). OP, you're an idiot.

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[–] He-Who-Must-Still-Be-Named 14 years ago

Jungle Book is fine.

I could see arguments for Dumbo or Peter Pan though... Of course personally I think stereotyping in old Disney films is a good way for parents to teach their children about race, and I also think it's dumb to censor entertainment because it may be offensive or politically incorrect. Especially when 99.9% of the things that should be censored aren't, and meanwhile some wonderful works are collecting dust because they aren't squeaky clean.

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[–] goodsmartman 14 years ago

Lol, you are so PC ridiculous, lol.

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