{"id":556413,"date":"2023-01-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=556413"},"modified":"2023-02-01T09:13:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T09:13:26","slug":"explaining-the-controversy-around-disney-s-splash-mountain-and-the-racist-movie-that-inspired-the-popular-ride","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/explaining-the-controversy-around-disney-s-splash-mountain-and-the-racist-movie-that-inspired-the-popular-ride","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the controversy around Disney&#8217;s Splash Mountain and the &#8216;racist&#8217; movie that inspired the popular ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Disney&#8217;s &#8220;Song of the South&#8221; has been criticized for its romantic portrayal of plantation life in the post-Civil War era. FilmPublicityArchive\/United Archives via Getty Image Disney is closing its iconic ride Splash Mountain on Monday, January 23. The movie behind the ride, &#8220;Song of the South,&#8221; was criticized for its depiction of Black Americans in a post-slavery era. The rebranding of the ride is part of a broader reckoning of Disney&#8217;s troubled history with racism. When Disneyland unveiled Splash Mountain in 1989, it sparked renewed controversy over &#8220;Song of the South,&#8221; the movie that had inspired the ride. The 1946 live-action film follows the story of a 7-year-old boy named Johnny, who visits his grandmother&#8217;s plantation in Georgia after the abolition of slavery. Bobby befriends an ex-slave living on the plantation named Uncle Remus, played by James Baskett, who spins moralistic tales about the adventures of Br&#8217;er Rabbit, Br&#8217;er Fox, and Br&#8217;er Bear. &#8220;Song of the South&#8221; garnered some accolades<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney is closing Splash Mountain on Monday after renewed controversy over &#8216;Song of the South,&#8217; which depicts stereotypes of plantation life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}