If you want to watch “Song of the South” yourself, you can get it through the Internet Archive. I wouldn’t recommend it though. Not because of any controversy—you can evaluate that for yourself—but because it’s just not very good. Not Disney’s best work.
Watched “Song of the South” to see for myself what the hubbub was about. Between the depiction of Black characters, the kids being beaten with a stick, the boy gored by a bull, and the fact that the plot revolves around drowning a puppy, I can see why Disney refuses to show it.?
My neighbor is building a pergola. He said, “The box says it takes two people 12 hours to build it, so I invited six friends.” And now I want to give him a copy of “The Mythical Man-Month.”
Imagine you’ve had a business partner for 12 years. For 12 years you’ve been requesting changes to your business arrangement because you feel it’s unfair and hampers your growth. For 12 years your requests have been ignored. Maybe it’s time to find a new business partner?
I was experiencing intermittent problems with my Linux laptop: external monitors not waking, occasional loss of Ethernet, etc. I’m not ready to declare it solved quite yet, but seems likely the problem was the dock I was using. Since changing docks, it’s been much more reliable.
