Comments on: Black Little Mermaid Angers White America

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 17:01:49 +0000

In reply to Mr.BD. Yes, I hear you BD. That's what did it for me when I first saw their reaction over the weekend. That video touched my heart!

By: Mr.BD

Mr.BD — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 16:06:41 +0000

That video of the little girls seeing somebody look like them got me tearing up in the office. I forgot what else I was going to say after seeing that because that said it all for me.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:40:35 +0000

In reply to Truthiz1. Oops! I meant to say....First, I want to say this.....

By: Wil

Wil — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:23:42 +0000

Guardian:

If your reaction to little Black girls feeling included is to dismiss is it as ‘woke’, then there is something deeply wrong with you Grown men are getting triggered by a little mermaid. Disney recently released a trailer for a new live-action version of the Little Mermaid starring Halle Bailey, a Black actor, and it has sparked a depressingly predictable racist backlash. The trailer has received 1.5m dislikes on YouTube and caused a lot of bigots to have a conniption fit. If you’re getting a sense of deja vu about all this, it’s because the same people already had a meltdown in 2019, when the live-action remake was first announced.

By: Truthiz1

Truthiz1 — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:23:11 +0000

So here’s my problem with the remake of this movie (and Black Cinderella too quite frankly)

Whose idea was it at Disney to *borrow* Hans Christian Anderson’s “The Little Mermaid” story, and make her Black, in the first place?

WE (Blacks) have never been short on talent. God gave Us TALENTS to spare! And yet, I sit here so frustrated with the lack of imagination and creativity on the part of Black writers and film-makers to write and produce Our own Black mermaid story.

Seeing the faces of those little girls light up is deeply moving! D*mn it, Black writers get bus writing, millions of little girls of Color are waiting!

Personally, I long for the days when WE have creative stories and movies For Us By Us.