Talk:Tar Baby/@comment-26536288-20160227214900/@comment-4656846-20180328050603

This character isn't racist, the Uncle Remus character is because he's nostalgic for his slave days.

There are other blackface stereotypes that the tar baby could easily have been given (overalls and straw hat, minstrel clothing, a "tribal" cannibal outfit, googly eyes, bone in the hair, etc.) but it's not. Instead it's dressed like an ordinary scarecrow.

Also notice that the other "black" animated characters in the film are not based on blackface, but instead have similar designs to European-based anthropomorpic Disney characters.

As racist as it is when looking back on it, the intent of this movie was to CELEBRATE Black culture, not mock it.