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Disney movie to feature black princess

Posted by Brett Singer

Tiana, Disneys first Black PrincessThis would belong in the "who cares" pile except that this is the first time that Disney has had an African-American princess in one of their films.

The folks at Yahoo! Shine are pleased, but have this to say: "We somehow doubt there was a woman named Tiana living in 1920s New Orleans, where the story is set, but we’ll let that slide as we have a bigger issue with the new trailer: the toothless narrating firefly. Yeah."

"The Princess and the Frog" is due in 2009. Here's the trailer. What do you think?



Source: Yahoo! Shine

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Posted Oct 10 2008, 03:00 PM
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Comments

 

chyna823 said:

Sigh. Until the last 2 seconds, I thought Disney had a good thing going here--a black princess who's just as lovely as the other princesses (and who I'm sure my daughters will adore) and then they throw in that trashy hillbilly bug at the very end. So close, and yet...

October 10, 2008 3:23 PM
 

erni said:

He's no worse then the hill billy tow-truck in Cars. Don't see you guys getting panty twisted about that.

October 10, 2008 3:26 PM
 

Brett Singer said:

@erni: If we're talking about Cars, how about the Mexican car, the Italian car, and so on. No panty-twisting, just asking a question.

October 10, 2008 5:54 PM
 

Dad said:

this trailer is kinda old, isn't it..?

October 11, 2008 9:20 PM
 

Shannon LC Cate said:

They've been talking about this forever!  Is it truly really coming out?

I have such complicated, mixed feelings about it.  I won't take my kids to see it, but they haven't hit princess phases yet.  If/when they do, I guess I'll be grateful it exists.

I just have to wonder how much real history gets fluffed over in 1920 New Orleans.  Pocahontas was a travesty of historical lies.  All the white princesses are just from fictional fairy tales, why not just make a fictional fairy tale princess be black instead of finding some historical location to completely miseducate everyone about?

I'm trying to give my daughters real people to admire. Not a fan of princesses any old way.

October 11, 2008 11:01 PM
 

Twintown said:

There are a plethora of beautiful African folk tales that would make wonderful movies for kids.  Why not use one of those?  

And yeah, chyna823, I HATE that toothless bug and I hate the accent - I expect this movie to be full of dropped g's and other irritants.  A "N'awlins" accent is one thing, the stereotypical black one is quite another.  Sigh.

October 13, 2008 12:01 PM

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Brett Singer is a writer and father living in Manhattan with his wonderful wife and two terrific sons (referred to here as Thing 1 and Thing 2). He writes about music for the Boston Phoenix, parenting for Babble and daddytips.com, and other topics for anyone else who will have him.

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