Disney films have their faults, but is there any better lesson about the dangers of racisim than this song? I'd forgotten how powerful the imagery is, too. And the final words of Pocahontas, "If you kill him, you'll have to kill me, too," go deeper than an adolecent girl's infatuation for an exotic stranger. When we allow our prejudices to rule our actions, we not only harm others, we are killing a part of ourselves.
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