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[Samuel Ata Kwabena Ma'at]

There's this new animated Disney film called Zootopia, and my wife and daughters went out to see it. Today we had a discussion about it, because my wife noticed all the messages and undertones in the movie and how it depicted race relations and the police in America. I haven't seen it yet, so I can't remark much on it, but from what wife tells me, there is a lot of social commentary: there's this effort to create a a "zootopian" or utopian society where all animals live (prey and predators) in harmony, a constant fear of the prey that the predators will go back to who they were, the Zootopia Police Department and their prejudices, there is a zootopian-supremacist who concocts ways for the predators to be locked up or killed, and more.

I wonder if any of you saw it. From my wife's description it seems as if they were trying to depict the prey as white people and the predators as black.  My wife was very surprised, as I've opened her up into reading into codes and underlying messages of films and videos, even in kids animated movies.

Tell me what y'all think.

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

I haven't seen it and don't plan on it. Also, I don't plan on having my family see it either. The tendency is to allow eureurasians to get to our children first and then we do damage control. As my father says, "the first one to the mind is the winner!"

[Akosua Aya]

I second your comment @obadele. We have very limited variety of television/movie consumption in our household.

A few months ago, I made the mistake of purchasing 2 movies that I thought would be generally ok...NOT! The first was one called Madagascar. It's an Kmtyw country, right? The movie is just about little animals, right? Can't be thaaat bad, right? WRONG! I should have known better and felt disappointed in myself that I thought for even a second that an "Kmtyw" movie created by euroeurasians would be tolerable.

The other movie (purchased at the same time) was called "Proud Family." The images of disrespect for parents and selfhate were the underlying theme of the movie.  This was another one where I thought to myself,  "what the heck was I thinking?"

I'm sharing this embarrassing admission of what I consider impuse buying as a warning to other parents to not trust these kinds of movies.

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[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Meda ase @Akosua Aya. I appreciate you sharing. The less poison goes in, the less need to detoxify.

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[Samuel Ata Kwabena Ma'at]

I feel what both are you are saying in terms of shielding our children from eureurasiaan influence, especially in media and Disney. I also believe we have to limit our children in what they watch and are exposed to, but not completely, there are still material that gives us room to teach our children about this world where we as parents can sit with them and offer them an Kmtyw worldview.  I let them watch certain things where we can critique afterwards and I get them to see it all from a Black perspective. I hope I wasn't coming off as someone promoting the movie. I was trying to point at that, Zootopia, in particular, from what I heard (I haven't seen the movie either), draws a parallel to what is going on today in terms of racism and fear, which could provide for a good discussion with children.