Is Song of the South racist?

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Ebonics covers the Gullah dialect,any dialect that is descended from people who were slaves falls under Ebonics,Gullah is usually associated with Georgia and South Carolina Low country areas.Alan Lomax did quite a few recordings of Gullah songs,blues and hollers.They are available from the Library of Congress for a reasonable price.

I dont think so it was made however during the times racial segregation still went on and because of it it was highly controversial hence why they banned it from public television etc you cannot get it on dvd or cassete in the states. Maybe in Canada though. Its rather silly these days though because todays standards its not really racist at all maybe some steriotyping but that is about it.

Apparently Goofys racist thats why his son Max hates him and is mad at him![youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVNoybnB-Ew[/youtube]

Any race can be a target of racist jokes.

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Never watched it but I heard some things. It was something like how the Uncle made slavery seem not nearly as bad as it truly was when he told his stories. and also that he was this stereotype too I heard. never heard of Eubonics, it is a dialect of English right?

^^^^^^It's the dialect some of the descendants of slaves have.

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The idea that "song of the south" the racist is based on the assumption that Uncle Remus is a slave when the movie makes it clear that he is not.

however, I have heard that br'er (not sure if that's the right made-up word) rabbit's nemeses are supposed to be sterotypes of whites held by the african-americans of the era in which the stories were originally written.

Song of the South.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHdXQAQHjd8[/youtube]

I don't think it's racist. I also watched it on youtube.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BtjW7PW2z0[/youtube] heres the movie!

Are you sure it was NY and Jersey accents? It could be Yat you know. They do sound similar to the uninformed ear.

As for ebonics, well we all have our regional dialects and our racial ones as well. It's true. While we are certainly free to speak them, we should all learn standard English. Dialects should NOT be taught in school. My teachers spoke with heavy Southern accents and most made use of dialect language, but they insisted that we write our papers and do our homework in standard English. They even explained that "How we talk, it's called a dialect, and that just means it's how we talk down here, how we choose to use the language. It's not the correct form, but it's ok for everyday use, but we need to know the proper use."

It's not just black people who speak Ebonics either. I know white folks who speak it. There are many different situations, but one that I know of is that when people hang out together, they tend to mimic each others way of talking. When my younger son who sounds like Jethro Bodine, hangs with his black friends who sound like that guy in (What is that movie, the one with "It's Hard Out Here For A Pimp") they each change parts of their speech unconsciouslly and meet in a middle ground.

I've seen it with myself and my black friends who speak that way. We each cross a divide, changing the way we pronounce some words, our cadance, and our tone and the use of words, to meet in the middle. It's really done when people of different language backgrounds meet anywhere. Another example is that my youngest daughters best friend is from California. She's from LA. She's got that non accent newscaster voice. My daughter sounds like shes speaking some sort of Yat dipped in honey (we are not from NOLA, I have no idea where she got the Yat from) yet when they are together, the Cali girl gets some Southern drawl and my daughter gets some clipped words. The Cali girl is black btw, just so you know I'm not being all "racial" here.

Caucasians in Louisiana speak in ebonics as well.I don't because dey would think I be stupid dey jus be trippin n hatin mah game.Just because people talk like that does not mean they are stupid though.

Well you can tell if a person is black or white even though they do speak ebonics. You do know that don't you?

Thats called Yat. Not Ebonics. Blacks in NOLA speak differently