Disneyland cancels song, recorded by Jackson 5 and Louis Armstrong, because it’s racist
Christopher Tremoglie
Old Disney animated films are good for the soul. They are wholesome fun for the family and are often packed with many valuable lessons that can be used throughout life. Take the Disney animated classic, The Lion King, for example. One of the more pivotal scenes suggests how to deal with troubling situations from the past.
“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it or learn from it,” says Rafiki, an elderly wise mandrill who advises Simba, the movie’s main character. Rafiki’s advice is a valuable lesson that the culturally left-wing executives at Disneyland failed to learn. This is especially true after the amusement park’s decision earlier this month to remove the lyric “zip-a-dee-doo-dah” from its park parades because of racism.
Clearly, Disneyland chose to run from the past.
After decades of featuring the song as part of its entertainment experience, the delicate minds of Disney now decided to remove the song because it is too racially insensitive, damaging, not inclusive, or whatever other kind of perpetual victimization some radical leftist somewhere felt it was. The controversy doesn’t come from the lyric itself but rather from the film in which the song was featured, “Song of the South,” a movie panned for stereotypes of black Americans.
It’s the latest example of the depths of Disney’s great cultural revolution. Things don’t even have to be racist themselves anymore. Now, things can be racist by association or classified as racist adjacent, I suppose. It’s a thought process crazier than Disneyland’s “Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.”
But the only people generally bothered by “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” seemed to be white left-wingers. The song has been around for nearly 80 years and has won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. In 2004, it was ranked 47th by the American Film Institute on a list of the top 100 songs in American cinema of the 20th century.
And while some leftist somewhere would probably rationalize these accolades as a product of white supremacy or other foolish nonsense, the song was recorded and performed by two of the country’s most legendary and iconic black musical entertainers, Louis Armstrong in 1966 and the Jackson 5 in 1969.
But this is indicative of the damage caused by left-wing brainwashing. Are we supposed to believe that “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” was so racist, but Louis Armstrong and the Jackson 5 specifically chose to record it anyway? Why is this song triggering people in 2023 but not in the 1960s? Do the white liberals of 2023 think they are morally superior, self-righteous, and more intelligent than black musicians?
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The people at Disneyland should start watching the old Disney movies as they are filled with valuable life lessons that are directly applicable today. And now, after decades of left-wing programming and indoctrination, those lessons are probably more needed than ever before.
It’s 2023, and people are mentally incapable of hearing a song about enjoying a beautiful day. This is the extremism that now encapsulates Disney. Disney didn’t just run from the past; it created its own past to run from.