Man remains optimistic despite hardships faced in his long life

>Man remains optimistic despite hardships faced in his long life
>This is somehow racist

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It was shunned for the depiction of slaves as being happy and well treated, which was a revisionist history being pushed hard by the kkk at the time.

>for the depiction of slaves as being happy and well treated
For the last fucking time he was not a slave in the film

What about Briar rabbit and the tar baby? I know they are used as entertaining stories but tar baby is not an innocent turn of phrase. Also plantation life wasn't all smiles and dancing. It was film released at the wrong time and not one of Disney's better films

>slaves
>Takes place during the Reconstruction era so they can't be slaves
It's like you didn't watch the movie

It doesn't take place during the slavery period, care to explain what you're talking about ?

>It's like you didn't watch the movie
Neiter did the people who criticize the movie for that aspect

Lots of schools either skip, or outright down play the positive parts of the Reconstruction Era. It's treated as a flawed time because Lincoln wasn't helming the project.

Reconstruction wasn't exactly an idyllic time to be black either.

The movie was bland and corny, nobody would care about it if it wasn´t for the cartoon segments and its supposed racism