watching the Proud Family’s Kwanzaa episode and man were they on some cultural awareness shit.
first they celebrated Kwanzaa, a holiday Disney hadn’t covered yet.
then they talked about homelessness
then they had vegan characters who took the time to explain what that meant
all in a show already progressive for it’s time.
man disney needs to crank out shit like this nowadays.
They also had an episode on Islam and Ramadan!
Penny wore the hijab and everything and they even mentioned how the hijab is a choice!
At the end of the episode the Muslim family’s house is vandalized. You spend an entire episode loving these characters and then see their home ruined with ‘go back to where you came from’ scrawled over their garage. A very powerful episode.
LOVED this show as a kid and thanks for reminding me why.
A nonprofit group is taking a novel approach to helping the homeless in San Francisco with a new bus that allows them to take a shower.
The former public transit bus has been outfitted with two full private bathrooms and offers hot showers, clean toilets, shampoo, soap and towels free of charge. The founder of the nonprofit Lava Mae mobile shower bus (Doniece Sandoval) said she wanted to return a sense of dignity to those living on the streets.
