I'd like to know just how it is racist. If it is saying that black people are inferior to white people then absolutely YES that's racist. But wouldn't the black actors have boycotted it and rejected the roles of that ear the case? If it is showing stories from a time before the civil rights movement in the USA that feature black people, then surely, giving voice to the voiceless is surely a good thing? Anything else is airbrushing history to suit modern sensitivities and nothing to do with actual racism. There's enough hatred in the world without us manufacturing it on false pretences.
Just to keep on topic, Meghan isn't black and she certainly isn't voiceless.
Uncle Remus is the fictional title character and narrator of a collection of African American folktales compiled and adapted by
Joel Chandler Harris and published in book form in 1881. Harris was a journalist in post-
Reconstruction era Atlanta, and he produced seven Uncle Remus books. He did so by introducing tales that he had heard and framing them in the plantation context. He wrote his stories in a dialect which was his interpretation of the
Deep South African-American language of the time. For these framing and stylistic choices, Harris's collection has garnered controversy since its publication.
[1] Many of these stories are believed to have
Creek Indian influence too.
Structure[edit]
"Old Plantation Play Song", from
Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation, 1881
Uncle Remus is a collection of animal stories, songs, and oral folklore collected from southern black Americans. Many of the stories are
didactic, much like those of
Aesop's Fables and
Jean de La Fontaine's stories. Uncle Remus is a kindly old
freedman who serves as a story-telling device, passing on the folktales to children gathered around him, like the traditional African
griot.
The stories are written in an
eye dialect devised by Harris to represent a
Deep South Black dialect. Uncle Remus is a compilation of
Br'er Rabbit storytellers whom Harris had encountered during his time at the
Turnwold Plantation. Harris said that the use of the Black dialect was an effort to add to the effect of the stories and to allow the stories to retain their authenticity.
[2] The genre of stories is the
trickster tale. At the time of Harris's publication, his work was praised for its ability to capture plantation Black dialect.
[3]
Br'er Rabbit ("Brother Rabbit") is the main character of the stories, a character prone to tricks and troublemaking, who is often opposed by
Br'er Fox and Br'er Bear. In one tale, Br'er Fox constructs a doll out of a lump of tar and puts clothing on it. When Br'er Rabbit comes along, he addresses the "
tar baby" amiably but receives no response. Br'er Rabbit becomes offended by what he perceives as the tar baby's lack of manners, punches it and kicks it, and becomes stuck.
[4]
and nice things they can't trust Overseas relatives to use. Things like tiaras and cottages. 
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