For a movie that’s still respected as one of Disney’s classics, elements of Dumbo have sure aged poorly. Case in point: the movie’s band of crows — a jive-talking (“Been done seen about everything when you see an elephant fly”) group of friendly deadbeats. And in case the stereotype isn’t blatant enough, the lead crow’s name? Jim. As in Jim Crow, the series of laws that mandated segregation for blacks prior to the civil rights movement.
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