#zipadeedoodah

Listen, I've been pretty impressed with the #blacklivesmatter movement. I being African American want to see change. It's great people are demanding change for an issue that's been swept under the rug for far too long.

That said, I don't think they should re-theme Splash Mountain with the Princess and the Frog. Now before you get mad here me out.

Yes, I understand people are upset about the rides racist roots. Yes, I understand Tiana is a strong Princess who deserves her own ride in the parks. And yes, I understand this is growth for Disney.

But consider this.

1.) I dunno it feels like some handout. Like shouldn't Tiana have her own ride entirely instead of being used to cover up racially controversial ride? Like they only chose her to replace the ride because they figured she'd appease the people the ride currently offends. (If you catch what I'm saying) This girl was all about putting the work in to make her dream happen. Instead of working to create a new ride in honor of her story, her story feels like it's just a new paint job. Was her story chosen to replace splash mountain because it was a good fit or for other reasons?

2.) Tiana's dream was to open a restaurant. Why not instead of a ride give the Princess what she dreamed of in Liberty Square? Have beignets and a jazzy New Orleans vibe restaurant. At an affordable price, like the princess would have wanted.

3.) I read Disney's release statement saying they'd been planning this update for almost a year. So what? Was the original tweet just to create buzz so that when they changed the theme it would seem like the people's idea? I don't know if kind of suspicious if you ask me.

4.) Maybe I'm wrong, but I'm kinda assuming more than 5o% of the people advocating for the change had never heard of Song of the South until this was brought up. Like I asked my co-workers who are all at least 4 years older than me and they had no clue the movie existed. I was the only one out of 12. Soo... the ride kind of existed too many as its own thing separate from the movie all ready.

5.) By replacing the ride entirely, it feels less like Disney is owning their mistake and more like they're trying to forget it. Maybe instead of replacing the story you fix it so it isn't racist rewrite the characters. Fix the problem instead of covering it up with something shiny and new. Perhaps giving the characters new names, improved dialects, and a story all their own is the right way to go.

6.) Where am I going to hear Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Da? It's kind of a park classic, that'll leave me feeling incomplete if I don't hear it somewhere in the park.

7.) If they are going to redo the ride are they still going to own up to what they did. For me personally they should or they should just consider number 5. Will there be a plaque for people to read while in line that basically says they messed up. They made a ride that hurt many people. They know this won't fix what they did, but they want to be better.

8.) It's a classic Disney ride. They've already taken away so many classics. The Great Movie Ride, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, etc. This is one ride I want my kids to enjoy. And they later want to educate them on its history. This one was a big part of my childhood and I want it to be a part of my children's.

9.) Also if they really want to make a statement maybe the profits made off the Splash Mountain Merchandise that's seein a price increase, should be donated to the BLM movement.

10.) My biggest fear is that by replacing the ride many will forget what was once there. And just let Disney off the hook. They'll forget the history. They'll forget the story. And when we forget history, we often repeat it.

"History is who we are and why we are the way we are." ~David McCullough

No amount of guilt can change the past and in order to move forward we can't forget it. Any way... There's my rant on that. I'm sure you all have your opinions. I just ask that you respect mine. And could you imagine a Tiana, New Orleans style restaurant? God, I'd love it.

Also I do love Disney I do. But they doesn’t feel like they’re respecting the character it feels like they’re using her because she appeals to a group of people they’ve offended. Tiana deserves her own ride made from scratch and her own god damn restaurant. Thank you for listening to my rant.

#5EB1E9

One day, her mother said to her, “Come now, my little sanguisuge. Here is a piece of cake and a bottle of wine. Take them to your grandmother, for she is ill and weak, and it will do you well if she is healthy. Set out before it gets hot and, when you are going, walk nicely and quietly down the path, or you may fall and break the bottle, and then you will get nothing. And when you knock on her door, wait for her to invite you in, for it would be most impolite to not.”

“And,” she continued, “make sure you dress yourself in your cloak before you set out.”

“I will take great care,” said the girl to her mother, and gave her hand on it.

The grandmother lived out in the woods, half a league from the village, and just as the girl entered the wood, a wolf met her. The girl knew what a wicked creature he was, and was not at all afraid of him.

“Good-day, child,” said he.

“Thank you kindly, wolf.”

“Whither away so early, child?”

“To my grandmother’s.”

“What have you got in your cloak?”

“Cake and wine. Yesterday was baking day, so poor, sick grandmother is to have something good, to make her stronger.”

“Where does your grandmother live, child?”

“A good quarter of a league farther on in the wood. Her house stands under the three large oak-trees, and the nut-trees are just below. You surely must know it,” replied the girl.

The wolf thought to himself, “What a tender young creature. What a nice, plump mouthful, and she will surely be better to eat than that old woman. I must act craftily, so as to catch both.” He walked for a short time by the side of the girl, and then he said, “See, child, how pretty the flowers are here. Why do you not look around? I believe, too, that you do not hear how sweetly the little birds are singing. You walk gravely along as if you were going to a funeral, while everything else out here in the wood is merry.”

The girl raised her eyes, and when she saw the sunbeams shooting through the trees like bullets, and dull flowers growing everywhere, she thought, “Suppose I wait for the wolf to leave for Grandmother’s, for that is surely what he plans to do. It is so late in the day that I shall still get there in good time.” And so she ran from the path deep into the woods to fool the wolf. 

Meanwhile, the wolf ran straight to the grandmother’s house and knocked on the door.

“Who is there?” 

“Grandmother, it is me,” replied the wolf. “I am bringing cake and wine. Open the door.”

“Lift the latch,” called out the grandmother, “for I am too weak, and cannot get up.”

The wolf lifted the latch, the door sprang open, and, without saying a word, he went straight to the grandmother’s bed and devoured her. Then, he put on her clothes, dressed himself in her cap, laid himself in bed, and drew the curtains.

The girl, however, had been sitting under an oak-tree, waiting for the wolf to arrive at the grandmother’s house. 

She knocked on the outside of the house.

“Who is there?”

“Grandmother, it is me,” replied the girl. “I am bringing cake and wine. May I please come in?”

The wolf, shocked that the child had recited his words nearly verbatim, called out, “Come in, child.”

She went to the bed and drew back the curtains. There lay the wolf, with her grandmother’s cap pulled far over his face, and looking very frightened.

“Oh, child,” he said, “what big ears you have.”

“The better to hear you with, grandmother,” was the reply.

“Oh, child,” he said, “what big eyes you have.”

“The better to see you with, grandmother.”

“But, child, what big hands you have.”

“The better to hug you with.”

“Oh, but child, what a terrible big mouth you have.”

“The better to eat you with.”

And scarcely had the girl said this, with one bound she was on the bed and swallowed up the wolf.

When the girl had appeased her appetite, she lay down in the bed, fell asleep, and began to snore very loud. The huntsman was just passing the house and thought to himself, “How the old woman is snoring. I must see if she wants anything.”

So he went into the room and, when he came to the bed, he saw the girl lying in it. “Do I find you here, you old sinner,” said he. “I have long sought you.”

Then, just as he was about to fire at her, her eyes snapped open and she pounced on the huntsman, staining her white cloak with his blood.

And so was the tale of Little Red Riding Hood.

ok so explaining time.

i’m working on a production of alice in wonderland jr. which has the song “Zip-a-dee-doo-dah” in it. i recognized it (obviously) but i knew that it couldn’t have been from that show. so i googled the song and found that it is originally from the horribly racist disney movie “Song of the South” (which they are pretending doesn’t exist). 

so i watched the music video, and accidentally paused it on the first picture, when i realized that this was truly meme-worthy. so anyway i figured o could just post the raw photos before i spam this account with bad theatre memes (also there used to be like birds and bees and stuff in these which i kindly edited out so there).

so here. spread this to your friends. i dont need credit or anything. just meme away (ps they are good post reaction shots too)