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Why are certain folks so upset about reimagining Ariel as black? The craziest? Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, and the rest of the Good Will Hunting crew starring in Boyz N the Hood.īoyz N the Hood is about the specific experience of black men growing up in Compton. Then there was the slew of memes featuring white actors assuming traditionally black roles. Some people took their ignorance to the next level, suggesting black people can’t be mermaids because black people can’t swim - or get their hair wet. But please, pretty please, leave the beloved Ariel alone. Or better yet! Create a brand-new story with a black princess.
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That said Bailey is free to play Tiana, as they said. On the contrary, they were preserving culture. These folks weren’t racists, so they claimed. A petition demanded that Disney rethink Bailey. Within hours there was a “#notmyariel” hashtag. The impact of how this historic casting - the first time Disney selected a woman of color to play a white princess in its highly anticipated live-action reboots - didn’t even get a chance to register in my subconscious before I was hit by countless offending social-media posts from folks aghast that Disney changed the race of their beloved Ariel. When Disney announced Friday that the star of its Little Mermaid reboot will be Grownish actress Halle Bailey - not Halle Berry, as I and the rest of my Gen X cohort misread - I was like, that’s pretty cool.īut, admittedly, my excitement was tempered, if only because the last time Disney had a black princess, Tiana from The Princess and the Frog, she spent less of the movie as a princess and more of the movie as a frog.