The Uncle Remus Character in Black Hollywood

The uncle remus character, in keeping with the uncle tom type, has nothing to give white people but good humored service and love. In all those movies, alongside shirley temple, his screen persona was literally in service to a little white girl. He embodied the worst of what some thought of him when he told one reporter, i like white folks to like me. The movie doesn't really care about remuss depth of feeling or experience. His sadness is merely a function of the white characters unhappiness. But unlike in song of the south, sometimes harris put the character in more or less realistic situations in which he wasn't a mere catalist to introduce animated animals for the