Ngl, I wished the 2019 Dumbo remake did a better hommage to the crows in that movie. It may have been racist, back in 1941, to have white people voice them and have one of the crows (the main one with the cigar) called ''Jim Crow''. But think about it. These crows were sympathetic aids to Dumbo. The firsts, after Timothy, to show empathy and lend a helping wing to him. They are far from a racist caricature. It's actually a remarkable thing for the original Dumbo to do, as it came out in a era in which Jim Crow laws were still in place. Frankly, Disney, besides that small centaurette in Fantasia, did a pretty good job compared to the Warner Brothers.
I would have loved to see a group of black men, or just some people (varied in ethnicity, for example) dressed a tiny bit like the crows and saying a sentence that the crows would have said. That would have been a far better nod to the importance of those characters than the slight reference we got in 2019 Dumbo. I understand that times changed and for the good. But still, these crows were such major characters in the original Dumbo. It would have been only fair that they got a cameo of some sorts, without being a derogatory caricature.
