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09-05-07, 12:06 AM
Eb0nY wrote:
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Noooooooooooooooo!blkcry
im just digusted with this. "the frog princess". but All I can do is pray that it never comes out or nody goes to see it. Africa has alot of history. Why it couldnt be an african princess?confused3
Because it's an African American princess in the Jazz era in New Orleans (which also has alot of history, especially for African Americans) confused3
I think we (blacks) should choose our battles. Disney will not fight to represent us, so why are we complaining so much about something that could be potentially positive before we even know more about it?
So far there's been all types of heroines: asian, american-indian, middle-eastern, latina, white (blonde hair, dark hair, red-head, slavic, romanian). Something's obviously missing.
Are people going to disagree w/the storyline, yeah, of course. But, be real, Disney has always attempted to somehow interweave the antagonist's ethnicity somehow to the plot: Mulan (the asian one) was some sword-yielding samurai warrior, the native American heroine was based on Pocohontus, a famous american-indian in history, and wore deerhide for clothing, the latina from "road to elderado" was some aboriginal mexicana, the romanian heroin was a gypsy, and the middle-eastern one flew around on a magic carpet and was friends w/a magic genie.
They are FAIRYTALES. Suspend belief (as well as expectations). They are meant to entertain children, who are too young and innocent to attempt a pointless dissection of a Disney movie, like some jaded adults.
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