The Federalist Reports: Disney’s latest attempt to fundamentally change America shows the company’s diabolical nature. “The Proud Family” episode deliberately distorts our nation’s history. The fact that slavery was universal among cultures is ignored. There is no mention of the fact that North African and Ottoman Muslims enslaved millions of white Europeans for over 1,000 years. 

Children are intentionally left with the notion that only black slaves “built this country.” Children are not informed that both Hinton Helper and Alexis de Tocqueville offered plenty of evidence that slavery — far from being responsible for all the nation’s wealth — actually retarded the South’s economic progress and development.

There is no mention of the exploitation of Irish immigrants in the nation’s coal mines and in the construction of our railroads and canals. Apparently, the white farm girls who worked 13 hours daily in the Lowell Mills, the Chinese “coolie” laborers who built the Central Pacific Railroad, the immigrant miners who worked 364 days a year in our mines, the striking workers who were machine-gunned in 1914 at Ludlow, Colorado, and countless other examples of exploited non-black victims who helped build this nation played no role in creating our nation’s prosperity.



Nor can we forgive Disney for helping to inflame the racial hatred and violence that currently engulfs America. The cartoon’s attempt to reaffirm the lie surrounding the Michael Brown case by promoting the phrase “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” in the cartoon is unpardonable.