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Who Framed Brer Rabbit?

By AAN Staff
february 20, 2003  10:44 am
Who Framed Brer Rabbit?
"Song of the South" is one of Disney's most celebrated films. It's also one of Disney's most controversial. The film’s detractors say it presents an idealized vision of the Old South, a world where blacks joyfully work in the fields, spurred on to work not by the threat of the lash, but by the cheerful songs in their hearts. In the face of criticism, Disney refuses to release the film on video or re-release it at theaters. MetroBEAT's Chris Haire examines the controversy and how Disney got the story of Brer Rabbit all wrong.
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