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Disney Creates Interracial Film

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Disney has created their first Black Princess, and African American Princess named Tiana. The film is set to release in December of this year, and the closest person to America's African Princess Oprah even plays a part. It is called "The Princess and the Frog," and is set in New Orleans.

The controversy stemming involves the love interest of the Princess in the form of Prince Naveen of Maldonia, a white man. This interracial love interest has many questioning the racist nature of Disney, claiming that even if they had to create a Black Princess, because of outrage or whatever, they still refused to let a Black Man be the Prince as well.

I don't know that there is any real substance to this, I actually think it is cutting edge to go Interracial, although I understand the desire for a leading couple from Disney to be Black. This story could have been the one to follow that one, but they jumped the gun.

Disney just can't seem to do right by anyway, so sad for them. Enjoy the trailer, and the first link to a YouTube video that explains the controversy well.

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dangerranger

38 months ago: I think having a white prince makes the movie even more un-racist. By having an interacial couple, they are breaking down segregation in a sense; instead of black goes with black and white goes with white, they are creating a story of black going with white.

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Coloranter Raver
Denver, CO

38 months ago: I agree with Danger. It is racist to assume that all black people must date, engage, and marry other black people. It is racist to insist that a black princess must have a matching black prince.

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TheLegendTomWing

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Philadelphia, PA

38 months ago: Well, i would argue that even acknowledging a difference is racist. If we are all equal, we are all equal. No need to make a point about it in a movie for kids.

Then again, i agree with Siempre, Disney is notorious for stereotypes. They have lost their way, after Walt Disney passed on, it became about making lots of money and not about Walt Disney's vision. Then again, he wasn't perfect either.

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Radrook

38 months ago: It's just part and parcel of Anglo American culture which is hung up on this never-ending guilt trip based on historical wrongs for which they must need make amends. That's why they go out of their way to depict important historical figures such as Jesus, Mary, and Hannibal, as black. The Taino Indians were recently depicted on the Discovery channel as black a well. It's all a matter of making amends regardless of the cost in accuracy. The point is to convey no malice. In a couple of hundred years George Washington will be depicted as a black man.
Just matter of time.

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glitchypetpeeve89
Auburn, NY

38 months ago: Well on one side I am glad they are actually putting any black character at all, the only thing that even came close to a black person in Disney was in the lion king and they were lions from Africa (that buy it self has so many racial implications) . But, I also think it is very unfair that as of yet there is no full black couple. none the less I am glad that there is at least a black character in Disney its one step forward instead of backwards; and a step is step at least it is in the right direction. But maybe I am a little bias because I am a Disney girl, and as one I am still looking forward to this movie.

History is the past and should stay in the past, history shouldn’t be used as a tool to make amends. Thing now and in the future should be change. We have to walk forward and not backwards, I am not saying forget the past, no because we need to remember the past in order not to make future mistakes. I agree with Siempre lying never helped anyone even when they had ‘good intentions.’

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