Ok... So I guess this is what we get when Disney finally makes a movie with a black princess. A young black girl who falls in love with a prince that is is apparently from India (not African American or even African).
I was happy when I first heard about the movie, as I have a young daughter, aged 9, and I thought she would be more excited about seeing it than me. To my surprise, she was not really intrigued or interested in the concept at all. Probably because she is 9 years old in an era where we have a black president, and her mother is an immigrant (who knows not the struggle of African Americans in this country) and her father is a successful business man that does not seem to struggle with being black in America.
Well despite her lack of interest (good job Disney in promoting this to young black females and black families, yea right!), we went to check out the movie a couple of days ago. It started out good. Nice black family. Cool. A young black female with aspirations of running her own business. A hard worker, all good... Then in comes the news about a prince coming to town. The ship pulls up and well the guy looks black (or brown), but as soon as he opened his mouth, my stomach dropped... Wow! I took my daughter to see a black princess, thinking, see you can be a princess too, and it turns out she'll be crowned a princess by marrying someone not like her own father. Don't get me wrong, I have nothing against interracial dating. I mean, I'm of mixed heritage, so is my daughter. But in this country, we are considered black, and that's that.
Couldn't she have married a black Prince? Seems Disney went out of their way to NOT have a black prince if you ask me. If my daughter falls in love with someone from another country or ethnicity, so be it, but I can't lie and say that I don't feel like I got slapped in the face taking my daughter to see this. It's like, ok black girls, you can be a princess, but the only way you can do it is by not marrying another black person. Man! Don't we have enough freaking problems with black men and black women marrying?
Maybe I'm overreacting?
Posted By: Will Moss
Saturday, January 2nd 2010 at 7:55AM
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