This is a good book with a good message but this essay/chapter is worthless. Is this author aware that Song of the South’s last theatrical release was in 1986. Disney even called it “fairly offensive and antiquated”. I guess the author thought he was being cute or creative by giving Costa Rican mosquitos accents of poor African Americans from the Mississippi Bayou or from poor Southerners in Appalachia. Even Jar-Jar Binks was criticized for being a racial characterization, although the actor and some academics saw him as an intentional Clown character with a relaxed Afro-Caribbean vibe. Racial stereotyping or light hearted humor, the linguistic style really made this chapter difficult to read on a functional basis. It wasn’t even funny. Keep fighting the good fight in conservationism and ecology. Skip the poor US Southerner uneducated stereotype.
