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Christmas classic ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is racist, a woke Canadian college professor claims

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Christmas classic ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ is racist, a woke Canadian college professor claims

Beloved Christmas movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” has secret racial and “bigoted” messages, according to a woke college professor who insists that the fictional town of Bedford Falls is too white.

James Deaville, who teaches music at Carleton University in Canada, chided the timeless movie for its music, claiming it is full of “racism.”

“Listen and pay attention to the sounds of the movie and that’s where the racism lies, in the music,” the lefty lecturer whined to The Post.

A woke college professor claims beloved Christmas classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” has secret racial and “bigoted” messages. Everett Collection / Everett Collection

The beloved movie stars James Stewart as “George Bailey,” a man who plans to commit suicide on Christmas Eve.

His guardian angel, “Clarence Odbody,” played by Henry Travers, intervenes by showing George what Bedford Falls would be like if he hadn’t lived there.

The once-friendly hamlet is transformed into a place called Pottersville, a slum of nightclubs, drunks and ne’er-do-wells.

But Deaville, an author who lectures about music and sound in movies, moaned that the melodies are all wrong.


James Deaville, Professor of Music at Carleton University.
James Deaville, who teaches music at Carleton University in Canada, chided the timeless movie for its music, claiming it is full of “racism.” carleton.ca

“The music in Pottersville is boogie woogie and jazz, a Black type of sound, but when the town is called Bedford Falls, the song George and his wife Mary sing to each other is ‘Buffalo Gals,’ a white traditional standard,” he said.

He also griped that Bedford Falls is populated by mostly whites “apart from a Black housekeeper,” and slammed Frank Capra, the film’s producer and director, as a racist.

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Deaville’s woke words have sparked outrage among some of the film’s admirers.

“When I learned that some unhinged leftist professor claimed this classic contains ‘secret racial and bigoted’ ideas … I was beyond furious,” wrote conservative commentator Matt Margolis.

The American Film Institute has honored the holiday film as one of the 100 best US films ever made.

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