Don’t look now, but White America is going bonkers over a BLACK Little Mermaid.
Racism :
Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” stars African-American singer/actor Halle Bailey as “Ariel.” However, despite the fact that the Disney character is completely fictional… and is a fish… and lives in the sea… and has a best friend that is a crab, White America has somehow claimed her as “their” own and is now up in arms that Disney would dare to disgrace the character by remaking her as a Black Little Mermaid.
Now, here’s the kicker: The movie hasn’t even been released yet. Still, the preview has already garnered 1.5 million dislikes from outraged White film fans who simply can’t accept the fact that the character is no longer caucasian and a redhead.
“With ‘The Little Mermaid’ can we also just mention that from a scientific perspective, that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean?” said Daily Wire host Matt Walsh. “Not only should the Little Mermaid be pale, she should actually be translucent. If you look at deep sea creatures or like translucent, they have no kind of pigmentation whatsoever. And they’re just like these horrifying, they look like skeletons floating around in the ocean. That’s what the Little Mermaid should look like. She should be totally pale and skeletal where you can see her skull through her face. And that would actually be a version of Little Mermaid that I would watch.”
The anti-Black rhetoric didn’t stop there.
“[I] Don’t want the black face, but sure to keep the black singing voice,” tweeted a racist.
One bigot was so incensed with a Black Little Mermaid, that he used his AI skills to whitewash the promotional ad of Bailey as “Ariel” and digitally remake her as a White girl.
“Credits to our member Artificial Intelligence scientist @TenGazillioinIQ,” tweeted @vandalibm, who supported the whitewashing of the Black Little Mermaid.
Thankfully, most of Black America is unfazed by the pushback, since little Black girls (and their parents) have been celebrating the new Disney character for looking just like them.
“Mommy! She’s brown like me!” a little Black girl said in a TikTok video.
What do our girls think about the new Little Mermaid? pic.twitter.com/xjbR8kza0c
— LaTosha Brown (@MsLaToshaBrown) September 15, 2022
“Do you understand how it feels for our babies to see themselves in the fairy tales that the world said wasn’t made for them?” one mother said. “Say what you want and complain all you want … I hear nothing over the joy and excitement that this little girl has over seeing a person that represent[s] her.”
Oh well, Disney and little Black girls across America have spoken. The Little Mermaid is “Black, just like me!”
OK WASSUP! discusses Racism:
Racist whites are angered over Black Little Mermaid.
Now, here’s the kicker: The movie hasn’t even been released yet. Still, the preview has already garnered 1.5 million dislikes from outraged White film fans who simply can’t accept the fact that the character is no longer caucasian and a redhead. [….] -DJ Full disclosure: I’m not a fan of this remake of that particular movie and I’ll share my reason in the next response. First, I want to say this first……. I’m curious as to just how many of the “outraged” white folk posting their “dislikes” for this *Black* version of the movie are actually film fans? When you’re dealing with hard-core racists and bigots they have NO shame about their hypocritical and total BS stand on anything! The truth is, they are an extremely insecure and Fearful people. Ignorance, Hate and division is all they know. Plus, given all the madness we’re dealing with here in America today, can’t say I’m surprised at the (mostly) white backlash. But I’m also mindful that… Read more »