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Disney: Happy Black History Month, White America!
So, here we are again, Black History Month. Or as it could alternatively be called, White Demonization Month. Although, come to think of it, how is that different than any other month, or week, or day, in post-George Floyd America?
Oh well. I guess white people are just supposed to suck it up and penitently endure another beatdown over the sins for which they and apparently no one else on earth is guilty. Therefore, history gets twisted like a pretzel and the blatant demonization of whites for their skin color is relentless. And remember, in the woke religion there is no grace or forgiveness.
All of woke corporate America, it seems, is celebrating this glorious month and of course, Disney is no exception. Therefore, let’s examine this fallen and debased company in the context of Black History Month and see what we find.
One thing’s for certain: this isn’t your father’s Disney anymore – unless your father is a Marxist or a member of BLM. Forget about Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and silly movies about shaggy dogs and Love Bugs. Now it’s, “Say it loud, I’m black, and I’m proud!” As in “The Proud Family,” a cartoon from the early aughts that Disney has rebooted into a showcase of woke rage.
Imagine a cartoon depicting a bunch of angry children of color – one of whom, weirdly, is blond – screaming about slavery, white supremacy, systemic racism, and reparations. They sound like a bunch of Black Panthers from the late sixties, their voices dripping with righteous anger, indignation, and belligerence. Listening to them, you’d think nothing had changed for black folks since King was assassinated. Or, for that matter, since Lincoln was assassinated.
One of the characters is Maya, a “14-year-old activist,” who was adopted by two men. Of course, she was because woke Disney despises the normalcy of a male/female-headed household. (By the way, how does Maya rate two dads when most black households nowadays don’t even have one?)
In this cartoon, the angry kids of color (and a token white) let loose with a full-throttle stream of CRT-inspired historical illiteracy and white-hot white hate. Here’s one of their favorite and most repeated, um, inaccuracies:
“Slaves built this country (screeched in an angry tone)!”
Correction: like hell they did. What slaves actually did was pick cotton and other suchlike. That does not equate to building the country. That oft-heard claim is a dishonest and frankly pathetic attempt to undeservedly take credit for building the greatest country in history – but it won’t wash. Just to be clear, and using the language of the first black president, “You didn’t build that!”
In fact, there was very little country-building going on in the entire slaveholding South, by blacks or whites. The overwhelming majority of country-building went on in the free states, where the most industrial and economic development and scientific innovation occurred. Slavery was actually a hindrance to country-building, which is why the South remained a backwater for a hundred years after Emancipation, and which is why this claim of building the country is so patently absurd.
If the angry little woke Disney kids of color (and a token white) want to rail about the evil of slavery, then I’m with them. But there’s going to need to be some acknowledgment of the fact that back when slaves were first brought here, it just so happened that slavery was legal everywhere on Planet Earth, including – gasp! – Africa (where they’re still trying to stamp it out). But, of course, there is never any such acknowledgment.
Also missing from the constant anti-white diatribes is how white people were the first to outlaw slavery. How about a round of applause for those white people?
Crickets.
Did I mention they’re still trying to stamp out slavery in Africa?
Another gem from this Disney woketoon is the contention that America has still not atoned for its sins against black people. Still not atoned? Are you out of your woke little minds, honey chiles? No country in the history of human civilization has done more to atone for its sins of the past than America. The country has bowed and scraped, bent over backward, and fallen all over itself trying to atone for slavery and segregation. For decades now, every institution in the country has exalted and promoted black people in a nearly irrational torrent of praise and affirmative action, regardless of qualifications or subsequent results. Just get them into every university, every government agency, every profession, no matter what.
On top of that, we’ve insanely declared every institution, every profession, every sport, every branch of science, even mathematics itself, to be racist in an attempt to find some level of atonement that might be enough. What more can be done short of all white Americans gathering together and ritualistically offing themselves in a mass lynching of atonement?
(Whoops! I just gave Disney an idea for its next antiwhite woketoon.)
Actually, if woke Disney was serious and not just pandering to the spirit of the age, it would start by cleaning out its own festering nest of white supremacy. Looking at its executive leadership team, one can’t help but notice a remarkably melanin-deficient crew of oppressors. The angry woke Disney cartoon kids of color (and the token white) need to storm their own corporate offices and purge the whiteness right out of the building. But don’t expect to see that scene in any upcoming Disney woketoon.
Look, getting back to Black History Month . . . You want some black history? In 1960, when the civil rights movement was barely getting off the ground, the black out-of-wedlock birthrate was 22% and the black family unit was mostly intact. And now, over a half-century after the wildly successful civil rights movement and trillions in welfare spending (reparations!), and several years after a two-term black president, the black family lies in ruins, decimated. That is the source of nearly all black problems – especially the wildly disproportionate black crime that ravages every black community of any significant size – and it’s all self-imposed and has nothing to do with imaginary white supremacy or imaginary systemic racism in the here and now.
But Disney, along with every other institution in the country, will continue to lie, distort and self-delude in order to try and placate the woke spirit of the age. What they don’t understand is that neither all the diversity departments and diversity officers and diversity training in the world, nor entire months set aside for racial minorities and sexual deviants, will placate this destructive (and perhaps demonic) force that is gobbling up Western civilization.
The only thing that could change Disney’s current scorched-earth woke campaign against whiteness and gender and sexual normalcy would be if a critical mass of the American public imposed the following rule: go woke, go broke. It would be easy to bring this crazed company to its knees simply by not giving it any of your consumer money.
And granted, Disney’s profits have been significantly cut in the last year, enough to sort of get their attention. So they brought back Bob Iger as CEO after the hubbub over the sexualization of children and he promised to tone things down. And then the next thing you know, they roll out these white-hating cartoons.
So much for toning it down. Most of these corporate leaders just seem so unregenerate in their devotion to woke ideology. Therefore, only a total boycott will work. Can you do that? No one’s asking you to storm the beaches of Normandy, just stop consuming Disney for a while. Then, if Disney regains its sanity, accept them back with open arms. But if it insists on continuing its depraved woke agenda, it can just die – and good riddance.
If only Black History Month could be dedicated to promoting the principles of Dr. King, black excellence and the like, rather than the divisive demonization of white people for sins that have been committed by all races. But in the Age of Woke, we can’t have nice things and I shudder to think what Disney will cook up for Pride Month and Juneteenth. I have a bad feeling the Proud Family is going to be in a foul mood once again.
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Watch the clip embedded in this Tweet for a sampling of this garbage:
If Disney is looking to fill the streaming ban this month, how about making Song of the South available?
Very good post.
Blacks did build this country — along with frick’n everybody else! Angela Davis (yes that Angela Davis) just found out she could be a card-carrying member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (not just the Communist Party) — and that her family owned slaves. How about we rename Black History Month as US Constitution Month?
@drewinwisconsin I never knew Disney had gone this far. I don’t pay much attention to them anymore. Sad how the purveyors of innocent fun and family-friendly activities has deteriorated over the years.
I mean, that whole clip is just shouty, angry, divisive rhetoric (as well as historically ignorant) and should have no place in polite society. If the clip had ended with the audience staring slack-jawed at how stupid the whole thing was, I might have written it off as an over-the-top parody of Woke, but instead we have an audience that stands and applauds wildly.
Note: It would be entirely possible to celebrate the role of Black Americans in American history without demonizing the melanin impoverished northwest European contingent. We´ve got heroes- Robert Smalls, Hiram Revels, Benjamin Bannecker, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Oscar de Priest, George Washington Carver, Allen West, and other Republicans…
She also learned she had an ancester on the Mayflower:
https://www.newsmax.com/thewire/angela-davis-mayflower-ancestry/2023/02/23/id/1109861/
I want to point out that just because slaves didn’t “build the country,” that doesn’t negate the contributions that have been made by black people. And they are free to contribute to their hearts content, and that’s a good thing.
Absolutely. Yet they’re pushing the idea that only black people built this country, and whitey took all the credit.
Sometimes I wonder if the 1980s were the most racially harmonious time in our nation’s history.
It was in my world. I went to a integrated high school in Louisiana. We all generally just got along. I had my 30 year high school reunion recently – just as integrated as high school was. A real pleasure. I hate that our kids and grandkids are sold on victim/oppressor mentality.
Perhaps @Rodin or @Stad could start a thread on Angela Davis.
Conservatives should be using the Aikido approach to this stuff: embrace and redirect. Redirect the anger towards the party of slavery, the KKK, segregation, eugenics and Jim Crow. Celebrate Black achievement (very often Black Republican achievement) in the face of Democratic opposition. Gently reframe things away from white vs Black to pro-slavery Democrats vs anti-slavery Blacks and their Republican allies (being sure that the Black contribution is front and center). And be ready to guffaw contemptuously every time someone mentions the Southern Strategy fantasy.
And into the 90s…the thread was cut somewhere between 9/11 and the election of that reptile-hearted fraud Barack Obama.
The elite gave up on America when it reelected Bush in 2004. When it gave up it decided to descend into racial nonsense.
Do you think Disney will ever have a cartoon showing the Uighars protesting the CCP?
There’s no fixing this. Stop whining about it and just move on. The left ideologically hates whites. A recent Rasmussen poll said a quarter of black people said”it’s not ok to be white” with another 22 percent saying they’re not sure if it’s OK to be white. You’re not going to outleft the left on providing support, excuses, cash, benefits, and rhetoric to them. The right needs to just ignore it and focus on moving this country without their support to a better place devoid of leftist rhetoric and policies where the right is in charge.
Just remember that Obama is more likely to be a descendant of slavers than slaves.
Those screaming kids are appalling.
The reason why we don’t have a “white male history month” is because everything with extremely few exceptions has been created by men, and most of that has been by white men. There’s no way to contain it in a month, even if we limited it to US history and even if we limited to US history in any single decade of US history.
Ignoring it will not work. It must be destroyed.