Disney dumbo7/6/2023 The next few lines talk about how the men work tirelessly throughout the night but are totally fine with it because that’s what they love to do, apparently, so there is no problem with it. It was a well-known assumption that many black people didn’t know how to read or write in the 1940s because they were never taught, and the writers of this song used that knowledge as a “cute” added rhyme for their song. While they start to set up the tent for the upcoming circus, a beat and melody start to work their way into the scene using the sounds made from construction, titled “The Song of Roustabouts.” As soon as you hear this song, it will throw you off because the opening line states a well-known black stereotype. Approximately 13 minutes into Dumbo, a group of burly black men exits the back of a train cart. For most people, this meant-spoiler ahead-skipping over the scene when Bambi’s mother is shot or the scene when Mufasa dies, but for me, that meant skipping the scene in the 1941 movie Dumbo where faceless black men sing about how much they loved slavery. But, when we went to summer camps, we would finally see those scenes in all their glory-or lack thereof. Many kids can remember that, at some point, their parents skipped certain scenes from a movie with little to no explanation why. At some point in everyone’s life, we have all seen at least one classic Disney movie, ranging from Cinderella to Peter Pan.
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