So ok...if you don't know by now....Disney is coming out with the FIRST BLACK PRINCESS (check out the trailer)...but wait!!! She ain't no princess...she is actually a damn chambermaid...tht I think was dressed up one night and mistaken for a princess by the frog prince.
Thats not it...MADDY, which was the original name...(now is Tianna) and is as Heidi Trotta, Disney's spokesperson states
"Princess Tiana will be a heroine in the great tradition of Disney’s rich animated fairy tale legacy, and all other characters and aspects of the story will be treated with the greatest respect and sensitivity."
I am actually quite happy, but i know people brought up the fact that, "yo, she's a chambermaid that wants to be a chef...where the princess title come from?" All I can say to that is to watch the movie coming out December 11th, 2009. "Jus in time fa Chris'mass yaw" lol (ok I'm a stop)
But no really, the racial discrepancies I have with the movie is one the dental plan....WHAT IS IT WITH HOLLYWOOD'S PERCEPTION OF BLACK PEOPLE AND TEETH??? Ok, check it out...see where I'm coming from.... remember Transformers two...(y'all know where I am headed with this)...yea who can ever forget them twins...you know with the (drum roll please) THE JACKED UP GRILL!!!!! Then they couldn't read on top of that.
Ok discrepancy #2: why is there jigging...now if you have ANY remote knowledge of African American history, you should be familiar with: the black minstrel...you know the black men (or sometimes even white men painted in black tar) with white faces painted on....and they do this type of tap dance, flailing leg monkey type dance...yea well thts jigging...and there are two black characters jigging in the movie trailer...now...my academic researcher came out to survey the issue, and it pointed out that maybe, just maybe...that is fact...and if we want to be represented CORRECTLY...why not be represented by facts??? Makes sense right...the thing that is getting to us...is the fact that those facts are the truth...and u kno what grandma dem say: The Truth Hurts!!!
check out the firefly's teeth: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rjtdl1a_Jqc
Is Holly wood trying to tell us something though? Yea, they are. They are telling us about our history through a Disney Tale representing the FIRST BLACK PRINCESS!!! I know it is like..."but why: the teeth, the jigging, New Orleans, the witch craft?" Well, guess what folks? That is life...that is our HISTORY. Back in the day they could not afford dental care... (though there is no excuse for a ROBOT with jacked up teeth...aren't they suppose to be better than human?? jus saying) ...Back in the day: they did jig....New Orleans along with SOuth Carolina, and Virginia, and Georgia was like a cesspool of the black populous. The witchcraft...when you think New Orleans...be honest what comes to mind??? Well, besides Katrina and Wayne....I think of them Bayous and then next is the voodoo/hoodoo that take place there....that is AFRICAN heritage passed on people...
William Blackburn, former columnist at The Charlotte Observer, voiced his criticism of another matter. He stated that the "story is set in New Orleans, the setting of one of the most devastating tragedies to beset a black community" and felt the choice of this setting was "insensitive."
Here's the official trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8N-kIiELUA&feature=channel
And that's all folks!!!!
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