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CultureDecember 24, 2009

Disney’s Lump of Coal

By Anthea Butler

Disney’s The Princess and the Frog picks up where Katrina left off. The movie is a wholesale desecration of New Orleans, Creole culture, Cajun culture, religion, zydeco, and even Louis Armstrong.

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