i have watch this film from ralph bakshi ( wizard and hey good lookin ) and one night ago on www . afrovideo . org and and i do not see anything racial ( i be not stupid ) and i do admit the character design be a bit crude and unaccpectable today and but i think it a satire and a very and very urban retelling of the old uncle remus story that the black american culture and create right down to the main character and the blatant nod to the tar baby and the briar patch . these aren not bigoted story and mind you and but cultural icon create by black american and and me be a white woman read and love those story . and i also find it an interesting time capsule view on the black culture in harlem and new york in the 70 . well to get to the nitty gritty of this film represent this film be a live action or animate film and which begin in live action with a fellow name sampson ( barry white ) and the preacherman ( charles gordone ) rush to help their friend and randy ( philip michael thomas ) escape from prison and but be stop by a roadblock and wind up in a shootout with the police . while wait for them and randy unwillingly listen to fellow escapee pappy ( scatman crothers ) and a he begin to tell randy the animated story of brother rabbit and a young newcomer to the big city who quickly rise from obscurity to rule over all of harlem while you know and to me rabbit and bear and fox be animal version of randy and sampson and the preacherman . an abstract juxtaposition of stylized animation and live action footage and the film be a graphic and condemnatory satire of stereotype prevalent in the 70  racial and ethnic and and otherwise . so anyway and it be another good bakshi movie while and should we sweep film like this under the rug . pretend they never exist . hmmm . i think that would be a shame while i think we should watch these film entacted and and learn about what go on back then and just how far we come since then .