After facing backlash for its response to the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, Disney is under fire yet again, this time for a high school drill team's performance at Magic Kingdom theme park near Orlando.
"Our children shouldn't still be spouting this kind of language," she told USA TODAY. " offensive to see Disney, of all places, who have been the perpetrators of racial stereotypes in history, allowing something like this in their park, this kind of song, regardless of the young, innocent voices singing it.
“I've seen iterations of leftover racism in the form of mascots in professional teams and collegiate level teams,” Houska, a citizen of Couchiching First Nation, told USA TODAY. “This one is unique just in the sense that it was really overt – like saying ‘scalp ‘em’ – and that it was at Disney parks.”While Disney spokespeople said the performance was not consistent with the drill team's audition tape, Houska pointed out that the group's name and uniform are also offensive.
“ should not be giving a platform to overt racism,” Houska said. "If you're a parent and you've got a small child there and your kid is seeing firsthand people being dehumanized right in front of them for fun – I mean, that's not a good message to be sending our children."A spokesperson for the Cherokee Nation shared two letters that were sent to the school district in 2020 and 2021, asking the school to stop using "derogatory" imagery.
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