do you know what tarbaby is??

Yes. My first encounter with the term was with the movie "Song of the South." I actually saw a rerun of that movie in the theater in the early 80's. But after that, the movie became extinct, and Disney distanced itself from the movie in everyway possible. So probably in the mid to late 80s.

Im 30.

Update: Disney re-released the movie in theater in 1980 and 1986. Nothing since then, but they did re-release it in Finland in 1995.

Like others said, references can be found in the now virtually nonexistent Disney movie Song of the South.

However, there was a deeper significance to the term as it was a cultural reference, if I recall right, a discriminatory epithet, a slang word used to describe African Americans.

Like stereotyping language and modes of African Americans speech in old movies, books like Little Black Sambo, references to cotton and chicken and watermelon in the Little Rascals. Like other tales, stories, songs, and movies of that era, using slang like that was acceptable. Some of that derogatory terminology is still in use today and some isn't. Now, a lot of the harsh significance of those words have been lost with time.

With the civil rights movement of the sixties people started to realize the effects of using words like that and it started to slowly filter itself out, books were pulled (not banned just disappeared) from libraries and stores, and movies and shorts were edited for content (hence the now hard to find unedited Our Gang shorts) and the lack of rereleasing Song of the South despite numerous rereleases of other Disney movies. When blacks started to receive the equal status due them, these references slowly dwindled and are now dead. A new version of Song of the South is coming out, and it will also echo the mentality of our times.........a story without the derogatory backdrop.

Oh yeah, and I'm 29.

This comes from the Br'er Rabbit stories of Uncle Remus - also known as Robert Roosevelt and Joel Chandler Harris

The tar baby was a trap made of tar used to capture Br'er Rabbit in a story which is part of American plantation folklore. Br'er Fox played on Br'er Rabbit's vanity and gullibility to goad Br'er Rabbit into attacking the fake and becoming stuck. A similar tale from African folklore has the trickster god Anansi in the role of Br'er Rabbit.

The story was originally published in Harper's Weekly by Robert Roosevelt of Sayville, New York. Years later Joel Chandler Harris wrote of the tar baby in his Uncle Remus stories.

53 years young

Yes... I'm 24, and my sister (who also knows) is 22. It was less being told the story and more just given the impression by our grandmother. Needless to say, it's nothing we've ever repeated.

It became right into a ordinary component in the African thoughts of Br'er Rabbit. Br'er Fox used it as the thank you to attempt and seize the Rabbit to consume him and because it became into sticky he could not get the tar off certainly and it hindered his flow, yet he became into waiting to flee it by working in the process the brambles. It later became a derogatory term for a black toddler even though it has ben used for adults who're of black descent. It became into because of the fact some slaves have been likely so wealthy in epidermis coloration they have been "darkish as tar". term is rarely used at present... it went out with slavery. while that's used nevertheless, except that's directed at a gloomy-skinned guy or woman or approximately one, it is not meant to be racist. that's meant to be sticky and problematical to enable flow of. occasion: "The president became into caught to that tarbaby." not racist. "flow returned to the initiatives you damn tarbaby!" Racist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarbaby

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and i'm 17

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