miley's mammy

i touched on this last night, but today i got to thinking and realized that this probably deserves a bit more attention. what is with hannah montana's treatment of black peoople? the show has two black characters: one is an evil b-word who goes to school with miley and has no redeeming factors besides that she is cool for an unoriginal archetypal reason, and the other is roxy, miley/hannah's bodyguard slash maternal figure.
think about that for a second. a southern, tennessee family employs a rotund, jovial black woman to care for their white, petite child. she only breaks from her character's distinctly annoying drawl once, and that is in an alternate universe episode where the actress plays an angel that has simply taken roxy's form as to not intimidate miley. at the end of that episode, three white kids are rapping, and in a last-ditch move that adds nothing to the song besides a black presence, roxy--with a flava-flav clock draped around her neck--says, "peace out!" i thought disney stopped overt racism once song of the south caught so much fire and instead relegated itself to expressing racism only through its implied minority characters like ursula, scar, the hyenas, and everyone besides aladin (played by a white actor, scott weinger, aka steve, dj's boyfriend, in full house) in aladin.

ps...in case you need this-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannah_Montana