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C.J. Pearson is a PragerU personality and host of the weekly online news series, The Wrap Up
When I was growing up cartoons were just cartoons.
Those days aren't just long gone. They're long dead.
As a black kid, I never saw a problem with the Saturday morning and after-school offerings. I was raised on The Disney Channel's 'The Proud Family,' which first aired in 2001. And I remember it fondly.
It was innocent. It was funny. It was a normal, light-hearted sitcom about the importance of family and community.
But Disney+'s reboot, renamed 'The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder,' is so far removed from what I grew up watching that I don't even recognize it. In fact, it's a Trojan horse of un-American, woke, propaganda.
I was raised on The Disney Channel's 'The Proud Family,' which first aired in 2001. And I remember it fondly. (Above) Author, C.J. Pearson
I have now watched every single new episode in the hopes that you might not have to. You can thank me later.
The series is not just political. It is downright radical; demonizing the police, denigrating white people, and perpetuating leftist narratives that you'd expect to see on MSNBC from Joy-Ann Reid, not Disney+.
In one viral clip, which has been viewed more than 1.7 million times on Twitter, the topic of interracial relationships is pushed to the forefront.
One character, Zoey, who is white, is ostracized by her friends, but not for any fault of her own. She's punished because another character, Noah, a black boy, likes her.
Zoey's friends, who are minority children, can't accept it.
'My cousin lives down the street from [Noah] and says he only goes out with the vanilla,' says one girl. Another derides Zoey as, 'Becky, with the red hair.'
Zoey earned the ire of her friends not for doing anything wrong, but – ironically enough for a show supposedly concerned with female empowerment – for choosing to like whom she liked.
Her crime was ignoring skin color. Martin Luther King Jr. would be appalled.
They collectively decide that Zoey's not invited to a gathering before the Valentine's Day dance. But regardless, Zoey shows up – causing her friends to leave.
Shockingly, the episode ends with Noah admitting that he does prefer white girls and Zoey breaks up with him. Only then do her friends welcome her back into their social circle.
To many, this suggested a disgusting condemnation of interracial relationships. I don't disagree, but to me, it was also a source of confusion.
In one viral clip, which has been viewed more than 1.7 million times on Twitter, the topic of interracial relationships is pushed to the forefront.
To Penny, the main character, complexions are merely an afterthought, as it likely was for everyone watching at home. And that's the problem.
Had the KKK or Disney+ produced this? I genuinely couldn't tell. Is this intended to relieve racial division or stoke it?
To Penny, the main character, complexions are merely an afterthought, as it likely was for everyone watching at home.
And that's the problem.
While Disney+'s admittedly leftist producers may take issue with interracial couplings, America doesn't. In 2023, interracial dating isn't taboo. It's not just accepted, but it's become commonplace.
According to a recent Gallup poll, the approval rating for interracial relationships clocked in at a record high of 94% - having risen steadily for decades.
Why does Disney+ think this is an urgent societal issue to be tackled in their ever-so-worthy fight for social justice?
An Axios analysis of the Gallup data observed that approval of interracial relationships is 'sky-high no matter how you slice the data' across nearly every demographic with 96% of non-white Americans and 93% of white Americans approving.
Not to mention, we've come a long way since 1967, when just 3% of married couples were interracial. Today that number is 17% - nearly one-in-six newly married Americans entered into a union with a person of a different race or ethnicity.
So again, I ask: Why inject this conversation and into a children's show of all places?
But as the Left so often does, it seeks to make an issue out of a non-issue, shamelessly and recklessly pitting whites against blacks, even as children.
And it wasn't only that episode. This is a theme throughout the series.
In another viral clip, viewed more than 6.4 million times, the cartoon cast declares that 'slaves built this country,' portraying white supremacy as an ever-present threat and demanding so-called reparations.
Of course, there's no mention of the fact that no one alive today was a slave or ever owned a slave, or that the proponents of reparations have never offered a fair or fiscally reasonable way to re-distribute America's wealth to an ill-defined population of the allegedly aggrieved. But apparently, facts don't matter to Disney+. It's the narrative.
By ingraining into the innocent and impressionable minds of children that whites are oppressors and blacks are victims, the left is trying to indoctrinate.
They aren't trying to entertain. They are trying to control.
If you're still inclined to give Disney the benefit of the doubt, I implore you to consider a final example. As they say, once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, but three times - well - that makes a pattern.
In another viral clip, viewed more than 6.4 million times, the cartoon cast declares that 'slaves built this country,' portraying white supremacy as an ever-present threat and demanding so-called reparations.
By ingraining into the innocent and impressionable minds of children that whites are oppressors and blacks are victims, the left is trying to indoctrinate.
The black helmeted, jack-booted officers loom over the kids – billy clubs in hand. An African American parent demands that white parents intervene with their 'white privilege' to save his babies. And he's rudely shoved back.
'The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder' perpetuates the false Black Lives Matter narrative that police exist to brutalize and not to protect.
In another disgraceful scene, the children stage a protest against the fictional slave-owning founder of their town. So, their horrified parents and teachers call in the riot police to 'put these little kids in cuffs.'
The black helmeted, jack-booted officers loom over the kids – billy clubs in hand. An African American parent demands that white parents intervene with their 'white privilege' to save his babies. And he's rudely shoved back.
This is filth – pure and simple. What a vile caricature to present to children, especially minority children, who we should teach to seek understanding with law enforcement – not fear.
As Hollywood continues to veer towards woke, declaring a war on the hearts and minds of America's children, we have no obligation to sit idly by. In fact, we have an obligation not to.
Parents, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends should seek out alternatives to the propaganda being pushed on our kids. Pay attention to what your children are taught in schools and fed in the entertainment media.
I found my way to conservatism through free-thought and individual discovery.
Every child deserves this opportunity – even though producers at Disney may not agree.