General "Did you Know?"s

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There has been a huge demand for an official release of Song of the South, but Disney isn't paying attention to it since they dont want to be accused for being racist. Speaking of Song of the south. There is a similar movie(although its an adult cartoon and parodies the stereotypes of blacks in general) called Coonskin. The working title of the movie was 'Harlem Nights', but Ralph Bakshi couldn't get that as the name of the film due to Eddie Murphy being part of a movie with that title.

Coonskin has been wildly considered as Ralph Bakshi's masterpiece. Solely for the fact that he managed to dodge the bullet of losing his career as a director. Al Sharpton protested against Coonskin before it was even released. Despite the film getting banned from a complete theatrical release, Coonskin managed to be showcased at film festivals(but was given a different name by the name of Street Fight). In the late 80s to the early 90s Coonskin did receive a VHS release, but was considered rare before Coonskin managed to get on DVD in 2012. And to this day. Ralph Bakshi holds a grudge on Al for banning Coonskin to this very day, as well as abusing the power of the NAACP to get the attention to ban the film after all that hard work that was put into making the film.