I have been waiting TWO YEARS for the release of The Frog Princess (the title has been since changed from The Princess and the Frog). The initial release read as such:
FromMarch 17, 2007Disney films go from Snow White to a black princess
See that date? I have been waiting TWO YEARS AND ONE DAY to see this princess come out!!!!
This is the first released picture of her back in '07
Isn't she pretty?!
And then, today, I see this in the blogosphere
Can someone please tell me who that man sans pigmentation is and why he is STANDING NEXT TO MY PRINCESS?!?!?!?!?!
Now, after my rage subsided, I recognized that this was, in fact, a blow the progress that we have made in what some call the "post racist era."
Viewing this picture forces us into the realization that this is, in fact, not the post racist era. It is, rather, an era of suppressed racism. This Prince Eric (see The Little Mermaid) looking so and so is the graphic depiction of an ideology that says, though Black women are making strides, Black men are still lacking. And even now, in an era that a Black man is running this country, his fair skinned disposition makes it excusable.
Therefore, my Frog Princess's prince Charming has to be light skinned. I mean, isn't it a little much to ask Disney to have a Black princess and a Black prince?
*side eye*
As I stated in my letter to Walt Disney, they need to go back into the crayon box and pick themselves another shade for Prince Charming.
Because my Prince Charming doesn't look like that.
And then, today, I see this in the blogosphere
Can someone please tell me who that man sans pigmentation is and why he is STANDING NEXT TO MY PRINCESS?!?!?!?!?!Now, after my rage subsided, I recognized that this was, in fact, a blow the progress that we have made in what some call the "post racist era."
Viewing this picture forces us into the realization that this is, in fact, not the post racist era. It is, rather, an era of suppressed racism. This Prince Eric (see The Little Mermaid) looking so and so is the graphic depiction of an ideology that says, though Black women are making strides, Black men are still lacking. And even now, in an era that a Black man is running this country, his fair skinned disposition makes it excusable.
Therefore, my Frog Princess's prince Charming has to be light skinned. I mean, isn't it a little much to ask Disney to have a Black princess and a Black prince?
*side eye*
As I stated in my letter to Walt Disney, they need to go back into the crayon box and pick themselves another shade for Prince Charming.
Because my Prince Charming doesn't look like that.
1 comment:
though i @ times am all for interracial dating etc ("Something New" is one of my favorite movies)...seeing this picture brought me right back to the whole slave-era days of white slave owners taking advantage of and messing with black women slaves (esp since the princess clearly has a bayou/southern accent) ie. your earlier mention of Pres. Thomas Jefferson and the idea that if you are of status or quality as a black person, some people feel the need to date only white person/a nonblack (ie. esp black men, many athletes & politicians & celebs) to validate their status or "upgrade" in society??? idk its disappointing but on flip side im sure many are like is it really that deep in "Post-racial America"? smh...
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