Fantasia vs. Huckleberry Finn

In this post, I want to bring up an old discussion in class and talk about what's ok to censor and what's not. Although, I wonder if censoring is ok to start with. I think that as long as you aren't censoring important plot points, it is acceptable.

For example, Fantasia's Sunflower is ok to censor because she was insignificant to the plot. There are no benefits to keeping her, as all she does is serve everyone else.

In her only scene, Flower is a lowly slave to the pretty Aryan centaurs. She works endlessly on their hair and makeup so they can go meet other Aryan centaurs, although her masters seem to ignore her for most of the clip, making her a very insignificant character. Sunflower does nothing for the plot or the song playing in this Fantasia section and was created before TV Tokenism. She exists purely for racial stereotyping and doesn't have to be in the film. However, Cracked.com believes that the removal of Sunflower was even more insulting towards black people, as it gives of the message that in their "perfect, Fantasia world, Africans aren't servants. They don't fucking exist" and white centaurs are the only kind of centaur. But keeping flower out of the "perfect Fantasia is overridden by they fact that Sunflower (and by default, every black character) grovel under whiter characters. 

Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_15677_the-9-most-racist-disney-characters.html#ixzz2UpzHJFhhBut if you censor Sunflower, doesn't that just mean there are no African American centaurs anywhere? Also, could Sunflower be considered a deeper character than the other centaurs?

However, it is NOT ok to censor Huckleberry Finn. The racism in Huckleberry Finn is a major theme, and can be used as an example of old racism.