Disney’s The Princess and the Frog: Racist Undertones

Standing on my soap Box

I have bone to pick and I figured that twitter couldn't handle the volume of verbiage that I was about to let loose on this computer so I decided to do a whole blog post about this Walt Disney Animated foolishness they call a movie. Yes People I am writing an angry blog post about Disney. Why do you ask? Well let me tell you. Disney's new full length feature animated movie is entitled The Princess and the Frog. The hype around this movie is that this particular animated fairy tale features Disney's First Black Princess.

Cool…right; I think not!

I personally found it way past over due on the Disney's Companies part. Black people didn't just appear out of thin air a couple years ago. We hit the earth sometime early B.C. I am almost sure of that. If this is true then why some thirty some odd years after Disney's first full length movie snow white are we just now getting representation in the animated community according to Disney? I will tell you why, because the Disney Company are some racist bastards. Yes, I said racist!

Oh, whip that funny look off your face. You and I both know that Disney ain't right! There are so many examples that I could give, but I don't want to ruin any of your childhood memories. SO I won't go into detail. Oh Hell! Why not? Let's start with all the murder that goes on in Disney cartoons. Just about every one of their animated movies somebody dies. Ursula the sea witch in The Little Mermaid was Impaled by a boats mass. Maleficent from Sleeping Beauty was severed with a steal sword by the Prince Charming. Scare was torn apart by the Hyena's in The Lion King. Gaston was thrown from a castle In Beauty and The Beast. Shall I go on? You may say that is just Disney teaching our children about death, I say it is Disney teaching children about murder, no they aren't one in the same. Everyone that dies in a Disney film dies a horrible death.

But we aren't talking about murder here. We are talking about Disney's inability to be sympathetic to the history of our people, and the racist undertones that lie beneath the surface of this movie The Princess and the frog.

It just so happened last night that after a long day at work I ventured out to catch a movie with my BFF. We went to Atlantic Station to catch some horrible movie which doesn't even deserve a blog post because it was too satanic for me to talk about. Anyhow, I saw the poster for the Princess and the Frog and I wanted to get a closer look. As much as the idea of Disney just now hopping on the black band wagon, disgusted me, I still felt somewhat intrigued by the new movie. After all I did grow up on Disney. But when I got closer to the poster I noticed something weird. The background of the poster resembled a city that I had visited. As I got closer I realized it was a sketch of urban street. Yes Burban Street in New Orleans.

WTF!

SO the Black princess doesn't deserve a kingdom. Oh no she gets a city in America. How in the hell is she a princess without a fucking kingdom. Excuse me my blood pressure is up. But really what the fuck! Not only that I noticed that a lot of the stuff going on in the movie was about voodoo. Now I can't be mad at that. Not too much hell there has to be some magic in there somewhere. But seriously she isn't a princess she is the daughter of the mayor of New Orleans. That is just downright wrong Disney, and I am calling you out.

For one, you had no problem finding a story for other ethnicities, you reach in China's history and pulled out the tail of Mulan, Hell you even managed to get a great story about the Native American Princess Pocahontas But you couldn't go to Africa and research a story about an African Princess. Why not there are plenty of them in history. What's wrong, that just would have been too much like right. Well Disney I am here to tell you that I am boycotting this Disney first Black Princess mess. I will not support your efforts to degrade my race or myself, and my fellow readers and bloggers I say; you say no the the racist Disney as well…

Say No to Disney's The Princess and The Frog

 

Stepping off of my soap box now!!

 

By Rafael Solece