Our pal Floyd Norman thinks Disney ought to finally release Song of the South on home video and in other venues. Floyd is right.
At the same time, I wish people advocating for its resurrection would not spin this as censorship or some kind of Orwellian control. This Disney organization does own the movie and they have the right to decide — as I presume they have — that the film has a low potential for profits and a high potential for grief and outrage. To get them to let it out of the Disney Vault, they have to be convinced it will gross more and be protested less. Floyd's essay is the kind of thing that could help achieve the latter.