ANAHEIM, Calif. — Disneyland has removed a controversial lyric from a new parade in the latest symbolic step to distance the Anaheim theme park from the 1940s Disney film “Song of the South” that has been criticized for perpetuating racist stereotypes.
Disneyland has quietly cut a reference to the “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah” song from the soundtrack of the Magic Happens parade that returned in late February after a three-year hiatus.
The returning parade — which ran for only a couple weeks before the COVID-19 pandemic shuttered Disneyland — includes floats featuring characters from “Moana,” “Coco,” “Frozen,” “Cinderella,” “Sword in the Stone,” “The Princess and the Frog” and “Sleeping Beauty” all led by Mickey Mouse.
