Maryam Amir – Disney and Racism

			This guy is on my screen or is
		

			speaking, I am having anxiety.
		

			He literally sounds and acts like a Disney
		

			movie villain.
		

			Yes, well, the reason why this Arab man
		

			sounds like a Disney villain to you is
		

			because for generations, Disney has spent billions of
		

			dollars casting white actors to play the voices
		

			of black cartoon characters and those of people
		

			of color in order to shape the way
		

			people across the world, because of the exportation
		

			of Western imperial hegemony, receive black communities and
		

			people of color, including the way that we
		

			perceive our own selves.
		

			For example, Aladdin, the cartoon was incredibly racist.
		

			The villain's voice was Jonathan Freeman.
		

			Lady and the Tramp, the Siamese twins was
		

			played by Peggy Lee.
		

			And there were so many racist tropes towards
		

			the Asian community in their characters seen all
		

			throughout Hollywood.
		

			For example, The Simpsons, Carlton Carson is played
		

			by Hank Azaria, and his voice is that
		

			of Apoos as well.
		

			Peter Pan, Candy Candido is the one who
		

			played the father of Tiger Lily.
		

			That movie is filled with incredibly disgusting and
		

			racist caricatures of the Native American community.
		

			And can be said of Tasia or the
		

			Jungle Book or so many other classic Disney
		

			movies.
		

			He was also asked by the United States
		

			government to push propaganda around the world.
		

			Saludos Amigos and the Tres Caballeros were films
		

			which were supposed to build trust between the
		

			United States and South America, but were actually
		

			filled with stereotypes about South America.
		

			They also produced film that was anti-German
		

			and anti-Japanese.
		

			Generations of that type of propaganda has absolutely
		

			worked because look at Palestine.
		

			We are all witnessing babies being beheaded by
		

			Israel.
		

			People being melted alive in hospitals while they
		

			are already injured from another bombing at a
		

			mosque or a school or a UN refugee
		

			center.
		

			Living in little tents with no food, no
		

			water, no supplies.
		

			They are being butchered.
		

			Yet with decades of propaganda like this, something
		

			as benign as a cartoon, someone like me
		

			is seen as a threat, is seen as
		

			oppressed, is seen as violent.
		

			And someone like you is seen as needing
		

			saving or the savior.