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Song of the South, Disney’s 1946 live-action/animation hybrid, won’t be appearing on the company’s new streaming app. Photograph: Photo 12/Alamy Stock Photo #Disney #Racism #SongoftheSouth For all the uncertainty surrounding the streaming wars – even for a dominant company like Netflix, which is still hemorrhaging billions of dollars – there’s a reason to believe that Disney+ is a safe bet. Even if every one of its original launch titles landed with a thud, Disney just needed to crack open the vault and allow viewers to dive, Scrooge McDuck-like, into its riches: 80 years of peerless animation, from early classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Bambi to renaissance titles like The Little Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast to recent hits like Frozen and Moana. And that’s to say nothing of Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars and a mule who kicks 100-yard field goals. Yet The Walt Disney Company has a longstanding Walt Disney problem, and for Disney+, the answer so far has been to...