Top 10 Insanely Racist Moments In Disney Movies That You Totally Forgot About

wait how did we not notice these the first time around welcome to watchmojo.com and today we're counting down our picks for the top ten insanely racist moments and Disney movies that you totally forgot about before we begin we publish new videos every day so be sure to subscribe for more great content for this list we're ranking the most embarrassing anachronistic or cringe-worthy moments of racism that Disney would likely want their fans to forget or ignore we're not passing judgment on the people behind the scenes at Disney here as many of these moments were a product of their time but it should also be discussed how many of them haven't exactly aged well number 10 sunflower Fantasia Fantasia was certainly an early example of a Disney classic an amazing combination of classical music and animation that still holds up today what perhaps doesn't hold up so well as a character included on the film's initial theatrical run her name was sunflower and she was a black female centaur or centaur Rhett who's seen waiting on her white brethren during a segment titled the pastoral symphony sunflower is drawn with exaggerated black features and is a clear example of a visual stereotype that didn't need to be there in the first place perhaps this was the reasoning behind Disney's decision to remove the character from prints starting in the mid 60s number 9 Japanese soldier caricatures commando duck it may seem strange today to think of cartoons as wartime propaganda but this was actually a common practice during World War two commando duck was one such short by Disney a cartoon that sees donald duck parachuting into Japanese territory for a secret mission the short tends to focus its plot primarily on Donald's battle tactics but there are plenty of racist moments specifically with how the Japanese enemy is drawn Donald's foes are deliberately presented with slanted eyes buck teeth and overblown accents I think my pardon I bought my stomach at you berry Reverend that's all right happy cherry blossoms to you please this was certainly due to anti-japanese sentiment of the time although it has not aged well when viewing the short today number eight conveyor belt mammy doll Santa's workshop Santa's workshop was a holiday-themed disney short which on the surface is a harmless tale of st. nick and his elves getting ready for christmas however early versions featured a troubling scene between santa and a pair of dolls as the toymaker is overseeing quality control on the assembly line a white doll comes down a conveyor belt says mama and gets approved by Santa then a black doll tumbles down the belt says mammy and stamps her own butt as Santa watches on and laughs given that the word mammy was slang for a black nursemaid in the time of slavery and the dolls exaggerated features it's no wonder Disney removed the scene from all modern prints number 7 King Louie The Jungle Book King Louie is a beloved character from Disney's adaptation of read your Kipling's The Jungle Book but he didn't arrive without his fair share of controversy King Louie and his ape subjects are the only characters that speak in jive slang popular with black jazz musicians of the day Richard M Sherman was one of the songwriters on the film and has been quoted as initially wanting jazz legend Louie Armstrong to voice the king but balked at the prospect of potentially offending the n-double-a-cp with a black man voicing an ape so is King Louie racist or is it all in the eye of the beholder you decide number six Arabian Nights Aladdin the american-arab anti-discrimination committee wasn't too thrilled with the soundtrack for Disney's in 1992 hit Aladdin they took specific umbrage with a line in the film's opening song Arabian Nights where the peddler sings where they cut off your ear if they don't like your face the committee saw this as disparaging towards the Arab people and complained to Disney for a lyrical change the company did comply and replace the line for Home Video and on new versions of the soundtrack the committee was also reportedly upset about another controversial line from the song it's barbaric but hey it's home but hey it's home but Disney decided to leave this one in for better or worse flowers riches ooh I could afford some manners Oh number five Native American stereotypes Peter Pan intent can be a funny thing especially when it's perceived much differently years later this should be most enlightening Disney's Peter Pan is an example of this notion as evidenced by a shockingly racist musical number with very innocent intentions the Native American sequence in the film raises flags with the song what made the red man red we're embarrassing Indian stereotypes are the order of the day although the scene is light and bouncy and tone the effect years later is rather cringe-worthy in its execution a blemish on what's otherwise a classic slice of Disney nostalgia number four we are Siamese if you please lady in the the intentions behind Peter Pan's racism may be up for debate but it's a lot more difficult to defend the outrageous cultural insensitivity behind the Siamese cats in Disney's lady in the post-world war two tensions are the only probable reasons behind the obvious Japanese stereotypes of sy and em to villainous cats who sing this song the twins are drawn with the same slanted eyes and buck teeth we saw earlier in commando Duck and their entrance is even marked by a gong something that hampered Asian stereotypes in film right through the 80s and 90s number three shun gan and the alley cats the Aristocats we continue with Asian stereotypes here proof that negative depiction of such characters wasn't only limited to the immediate aftermath of world war two nope Asians were still being drawn with the same old slanted eyes and outrageous accents in 1970 as evidenced by Schengen in the gang in the Aristocats Shangaan roles with thomas O'Malley's alleycat friends and performs his part of the song everybody wants to be a cat with chopsticks and a buck-toothed the list he isn't the only feline stereotype here however as there's also Peppo an amorous Italian and the trumpet playing scat cat who's modeled after black jazz musicians of the 50s and 60s number two the crows Dumbo the term Jim Crow was used to describe laws or regulations designed to enforce racial segregation in the United States the lead crow and Disney's Dumbo is also named Jim and has received his share of criticism in the decades since the film's release in 1941 although Jim and the other crows are generally friendly towards Dumbo the fact that they speak in stereotypical black slang could easily be interpreted as lazy or racist in their depiction of african-american culture the gang does get to sing the films most memorable song when I see an elephant fly but this doesn't change the fact that modern audiences might see the crows in a very different light before we unveil our number one pick here are some honorable or in this case dishonorable mentions [Music] you'll be my man party party me I'm the Fuller Brush man I'm working me way to college number one Uncle Remus Song of the South Uncle Remus wasn't a Disney creation but his depiction in this 1946 film lives on as one of the company's most infamous moments Remus was a fictional character responsible for narrating classic african-american folk tales when he hit the silver screen however Remus and Song of the South almost immediately struck a sour note with audiences for starters the film never explicitly presents itself as taking place in a post-civil war south leading many to believe that Disney was marginalizing the impact of slavery [Music] there were also a plethora of black stereotypes to be found which eventually resulted in the film failing to receive an uncut home video release in the United States to this day do you agree with our picks check out these other great clips from WatchMojo and subscribe for new videos every day

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Length: 9min 8sec (548 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 22 2018