The cut and cover-up in Disney's 1940 Fantasia:
The segment of the film set to Beethoven's "Pastoral Symphony" contained three shots with a black female centaur (named Sunflower). Performing menial duties for the blonde, white female centaurs, Sunflower is a racial stereotype along the lines of Amos and Andy, Buckwheat, and Aunt Jemima.
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The Memory Hole.
Somehow I think Disney has a lot more demon's in their closet then this. Any company that purports to have created the 'happiest place on earth' is suspicious. You've created your
conception of the happiest place on earth. But at what cost? Have you lost the very sorrow that makes joy meaningful? Or maybe the
cracks at the seams tell the true story.
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