On Thursday, Today.com highlighted a tweet by the Walt Disney Museum, an organization dedicated to

On Tuesday, when  Meryl Streep got on stage at the National Board of Review Awards Gala, the audience was probably expecting a thoughtful, short, congratulatory speech. She was presenting actress Emma Thompson an award for her role in the movie  Saving Mr. Banks . Streep read a beautiful poem to honor her friend, but she also took a few minutes to blast American business magnate and animator, Walt Disney, calling him an "anti-Semite" and a "gender bigot".
Some in the audience were a bit taken aback when she described the man as having "racist proclivities". According to the  LA Times , Streep described Disney as a man born in his time, and was also part of an anti-Semitic, anti-communist group that consisted of big names such as Ronald Reagan, John Wayne, Clark Gable and others. The group was officially known as the  Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals .
Disney biographer Neal Gabler concluded that "He (Walt Disney) willingly allied himself with people disney all star hotel who were anti-Semitic, and that reputation stuck. He was never really able to expunge it throughout disney all star hotel his life.
On Thursday,  Today.com  highlighted a tweet by the Walt Disney Museum, an organization disney all star hotel dedicated to the animator. The tweet fires back at Streep by linking to an  insightful blog post  by former disney all star hotel Disney animator turned blogger, Floyd Norman.
Norman entitles his blog  Sophie s Poor Choice ,  referencing a film for which Streep won a Best Actress Oscar in 1982. In his blog post, Norman acknowledges that women in the 30's and the 40's weren't provided with equal employment opportunities as men but that by the 50 s that inequality had diminished greatly. However, he also pointed out that talented women were employed at Disney and that some of the women who worked there told him they d never had a better job . He also mentions there were also Jewish and African-American workers too and that Disney recognized that talent had no color or ethnicity.