Disney Is Trying To Turn Your Kids Into Historically Ignorant Little Racists

During the Super Bowl on Sunday, the Walt Disney Company aired a commercial celebrating the company’s 100-year anniversary. Notably, it didn’t feature any of the company’s recently released, highly political and divisive content and instead highlighted the company’s seemingly nonpolitical and more unifying aspects. 

Nevertheless, Disney continues to churn out highly divisive, political content. The once-great corporation that was universally admired in the 1950s and 1960s is today deliberately working to help fuel racism among our most innocent citizens: young children.

A recent production of Disney’s “The Proud Family” put forth yet another false narrative about our nation’s history — that only black slaves “built this nation” and that blacks today deserve reparations “for every moment we spend submerged in this systemic prejudice, racism, and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for.” To illustrate this last point, the cartoon showcases a picture of a young black man with his palms turned up and the words “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” written on them. 

The cartoon features predominately black girls angrily denouncing the Founding Fathers and, at one point, shows the presidential images on Mount Rushmore being replaced with the likes of Harriett Tubman, Nat Turner, and Frederick Douglass — the “real” champions of freedom. Lincoln is deliberately snubbed as the girls proclaim, “we can only free ourselves … emancipation was not freedom.” No context, of course, is supplied for these outlandish charges, thus exposing the cartoon for the racist