The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters

Cole Gamble — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:00:00 GMT

In the Twentieth Century a man named Walt Disney created a magical fantasy land for children and adults alike to escape to. It was a place where boys could fly, as could elephants and a little mouse becomes a sorcerer. The world of Disney was completely tethered to our quotidian natural of regular life, um except for all the racism.

# 9 The Crows from Dumbo

Okay, they are black birds; they talk jivey and don’t like to do much work. That doesn’t mean they’re African American stereotypes. You’re reading too much into things. Oh, the lead crow is named “Jim Crow?” Oh forget it.

#8 The Indians from Peter Pan

One thing you can say for good old Walt, he spread the racism around. When Disney asked his animators to illustrate the Native Americans, he must have taken away all of their colors except Magenta. Just in case you didn’t know, “Injuns” are beet red.

But it doesn’t end there. “Red man, why are you so red?”, asks one boy. “Why do you say ‘how!’” asks another. “Well kid,” the man should have said, “there are not a lot of good parts in Hollywood for people like me.”

# 7 The Fish of The Little Mermaid

You think I’m gonna hammer on Sebastian and his Jamaican flavored antics. No, he’s kind of in that category with Jar Jar Binks, no so much offensive to a race as just offensive to humanity. But here I want to show you a couple of the supporting characters.

Who cares about supposed penises drawn into the towers, this stuff is right out in the open.

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Russian Boy Raised By Birds

Cole Gamble — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:20:00 GMT

Tarzan was raised by monkeys. Ryan Seacrest was raised by a family of mole rats that lived under a Banana Republic. Now here is a story about a boy raised by birds.Did they boy wander into the forest and lose his family? Did a family of macaws then take him under their wings (puntastic)? No. The boy lived at home with his mom who simply didn’t talk to her boy and surrounded him with birds.

From Pravda:(The) boy lived with his mother in a 2-room apartment full of cages with feed and droppings. She had her own domestic birds and fed wild ones. A woman neither beat him nor left him without food. She just never talked to him. It was all the birds that communicated with the boy and taught him birds’ language.“When you start talking to him, he chirps”, - says Galina Volskaya, a social worker of Kirovskiy region, Volgograd. A boy doesn’t understand human language at all. He just chirps and when realizing that he is not understood, starts to wave hands in the way birds winnow wings.The boy has been diagnosed with what is called Mowgli Syndrome, named after the child character in The Jungle Book. Photo: www.flikr.com

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The 9 Most Racist Disney Characters

Russian Boy Raised By Birds