Yes, I know, the crows in Disney's Dumbo are depicted being like jazz-age stereotypes of 'Black' Americans... but come on!
If the crows in Dumbo are 'Blacks', the movie is celebrating 'Blacks'!
The crows are, along with Timothy the mouse and his own mother, literally the only characters in the movie who show sympathy to Dumbo before his triumph!
They help Dumbo! Show themselves to be his friends!
They are depicted as clever and smart!
And those jazz-age stereotypes were not necessarily negative either- the jazz scene belonged to 'Blacks', after all, these were the jazz world's own cliches!
The fast-talking hipster, the clever bandleader... these were the jazz world's own cliches!
I wish movies would depict blacks more like this!
Instead of the stereotypical street thugs!
Disney's Dumbo is not racist- it is celebrating Blacks!
Watch the move and see for yourself!
And one more thing- if the circus workers who set up the tent are 'Black', the film is definitely celebrating them, too- listen to the lyrics to the song they sing in that scene!
Big, strong men doing good, honorable work who care more about seeing kids happy on circus day than making money, depicted heroically in the most gloriously animated scene in the movie- the film is definitely celebrating them too!
If you want a textbook example of art celebrating the common working man, that brief scene has to be the finest example ever made!
Which also goes to show... Free America celebrated the common working man in that scene better than any Communist country ever did! Freedom means genius!
(Now that Poland and Bulgaria are Free, we will see Genius from them!)
Again, I wish more movies would depict blacks like this!
The movie should be given an award for positive depiction of 'Black' Americans!
Again, watch the movie and see for yourself!
God loves you!
Sincerely,
David S. Annderson