They aren’t, you can still buy and read those fairy tales all you want. Disney doesn’t own the publishing rights to Joel Chandler Harris’s work.
I've been screaming this FOREVER but not because of the content (I don't visit it, I don't care) but because it has no business being in the park built on fantasy. At the Magic Kingdom I don't want to think about the world, history, conservation etc. I want to step outside of the real world. That is VALUABLE real estate in a great location and could make an incredible table service HAUNTED MANSION restaurant.
AND HERE LIES THE PROBLEM ~ the Uncle Remus stories that SOS are based on are not the original African Folk Tales. They are stolen African Folk Tales that were changed, whitewashed to perpetuate the propaganda that the slaves were happy with life.It's a shame that African fairy tales are being erased by Disney.
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The Br'er Rabbit stories can be traced back to trickster figures in Africa, particularly the hare that figures prominently in the storytelling traditions in West, Central, and Southern Africa.[4] Among the Temne people in Sierra Leone, they tell children stories of a talking rabbit.[5] Other regions of Africa also tell children stories of talking rabbits and other animals.[6] These tales continue to be part of the traditional folklore of numerous peoples throughout those regions. In the Akan traditions of West Africa, the trickster is usually the spider Anansi, though the plots in his tales are often identical with those of stories of Br'er Rabbit. However, Anansi does encounter a tricky rabbit called "Adanko" (Asante-Twi to mean "Hare") in some stories. The Jamaican character with the same name "Brer Rabbit" is an adaptation of the Ananse stories of the Akan people.[7][8]
The African savanna hare (Lepus microtis) found in many regions on the African continent: the original Br'er Rabbit.
Some scholars have suggested that in his American incarnation, Br'er Rabbit represented the enslaved Africans who used their wits to overcome adversity and to exact revenge on their adversaries, the white slave owners.[9] Though not always successful, the efforts of Br'er Rabbit made him a folk hero.
Several elements in the Brer Rabbit Tar Baby story (e.g., rabbit needing to be taught a lesson, punching and head butting the rabbit, the stuck rabbit being swung around and around) are reminiscent of those found in a Zimbabwe-Botswana folktale.[10]
Folklorists in the late 19th century first documented evidence that the American versions of the stories originated among enslaved West Africans based on connections between Br'er Rabbit and Leuk, a rabbit trickster in Senegalese folklore."[11][12]
Thank goodness because he stole all those stories. He (a white man from rural Georgia plantation community) rewrote those stories to make slavery as not so bad and that the freed slaves wanted to stay with their owner families and everyone was happy. The Harris books themselves are as bad as the movie.
LO when I was a little kid and went to the Magic Kingdom I was convinced that Abe Lincoln was still alive because of that animatronic
My understanding is Mr. Baskett didn't attend because he was very ill, not because of segregation.
Lol, these are some very selective quotations from the Harris wikipedia page. Many others you didn’t include don’t seem to share such a favorable view of his, erm, cultural borrowings.This is actually incorrect. Joel Chandler Harris was an outcast and minority (The Irish were considered an inferior race at the time). He was also an illegitimate child which was also really frowned upon. He was one of the few white people who actually hung out and was friends with African Americans.
"While at Turnwold Plantation, Harris spent hundreds of hours in the slave quarters during time off. He was less self-conscious there and felt his humble background as an illegitimate, red-headed son of an Irish immigrant helped foster an intimate connection with the slaves. He absorbed the stories, language, and inflections of people like Uncle George Terrell, Old Harbert, and Aunt Crissy.[6] The African-American animal tales they shared later became the foundation and inspiration for Harris's Uncle Remus tales. George Terrell and Old Harbert in particular became models for Uncle Remus, as well as role models for Harris."
Both Julius Lester and Ralph Ellison praise Harris,
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Julius Lester, a black folklorist and university professor, sees the Uncle Remus stories as important records of black folklore. He has rewritten many of the Harris stories in an effort to elevate the subversive elements over the purportedly racist ones. Regarding the nature of the Uncle Remus character, Lester said,
The author Ralph Ellison was positive about Harris' work:
Same on Apple Music. Maybe because DL still has a Splash Mountain? It was there a few months ago my kids were listening to it. I am sure DL will have theirs removed upon closing of SM.
It's ridiculous that Disney would eliminate access to the music, if that's what's actually happening. But the irony is really thick in a statement saying Disney is trying to erase American history (through a fictional story) with all the stuff going on in Florida right now (real-life stories) - some directed at Disney.
I didn’t say they were erasing American history I am sorry if it came across as so. I meant Disney history
