re: Black mermaid

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Shhh.. I just got the lead role in Malcom X 2

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this pretty much sums up the whites. Want to be victim so badly they make outlandish statements like this and are dead serious. You are comparing a real person to a fish..

If that sums up whites, then stealing white work because you're so desperate to be successful and relevant to history besides being the generator of HIV sums up blacks.

If you were trying to sum up blacks, you could have stopped at stealing. #thiefmobs

Bans incoming duck and cover lol

What about Hamilton with all the black founding fathers?

That's cool. Now let's have a white guy play Thurgood Marshall

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So, like casting Tiana (a black princess) as a blonde haired blue eyed princess would be okay and diverse enough for black people to accept it, right?

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Diverse enough for black people? Not to speak about a whole group as a unified block, but no, I would not think it would be deemed acceptable by contemporary blacks.

I don’t know who Tiana is, but is her story an archetypal narrative? Would there be a benefit to white kids to see this story through a lens that’s more familiar?

There’s multiple issues at play.

I think it’s fair for blacks in western society to want to be included more in all manner of ways. I also think that the victim mentality is corrosive and has been pushed too often and too far.

Casting a black girl in a fantasy story doesn’t upset me, and I would even venture to say that I support it, especially if (ideally) the casting process simply identified this young black actress as the most talented and best fit for the role.

I’m ready to stop looking so hard at people’s skin color.

Idc what skintone a mermaid is.

The only thing that irks me are racist white liberals who, most likely, only cast that lady because of her skintone. I envision a bunch of white liberals in Hollywood sitting around a table, looking at a list of actors, the list is divided by skintone.

I stopped watching anything related to Hollywood, a few years ago.

I can't speak for everyone who is "outraged" by this move, but the few people I know who have commented are only pointing out the hypocrisy of others who would basically riot if they changed say Black Panther to Zach Efron. And since we are on a political board, the left created this fake outrage by always bringing identity politics into every last thing.

Disney is an ultra liberal corporation working really hard to appease a segment of our country that does nothing but pander to people who can barely afford to visit Disney World.

If disney really cared, they’d allow low income people to come to their parks for free