This is not a new topic for me -- but yet still it is a very interesting topic. If one sits and just watches cartoons created by disney intended for the children it appears their is a strict reinforcement of these racist beliefs: basically that it is a white person's world.
Over this past summer I worked in the psych department doing research. My research was concerning racist beliefs and negative connotations that are associated with specific races. One weekend my boss went off to Disney for some benefit they were hosting. It was apparently a benefit to show how Disney was moving away from this negative light (whiteness) that had been stamped on them for past cartoons. But ironically my boss had the worst experience on his travels concerning these matters he has ever had. First, they set them up in a terrible (and he said dangerous as well) hotel. Apparently Disney made them pay for their stay as well. Then Disney had a banquet in where their main speaker was a man preaching that racism didn't exist in this world and it was something merely made up. Another important note is: the banquet lasted for quite a while (if i remember correctly he said somewhere around 5 hours), yet they were not fed. Moving along, apparently Disney's host site was connected to disney world, but it was on a side entrance; and they wouldn't let the banquet members enter into their park. They said they could go to disney world, but it had to be off their own budget.
This just seems funny to me -- a company trying to prove a point were not willing to allow those, who they are trying to convince, have a good time.
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Well, that really stinks that your boss has such a terrible time. I do agree with you that this "little trip" was a big fopa on Disney's behalf. However, I still believe that they are trying to be less "racist" in their cartoons; they have to, they really do not have a choice.
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