because people love to cry racist, especially the people who think they suffer the most from racism (ie minorities typically) it is NOT racist. nor was how Tiana was originally supposed to be- darker skinned, kinky haired waitress named Maddie. that was how black women were! they STILL have dark skin/kinky hair! that is not racist, but it IS racist to "whiten" her up into how se is now, all the while claiming her original (and much more realistic) design was racist. I'm not black but I'm way more offended people think coarse African hair and dark brown skin is somehow racist- and that's from the people claiming to want racial equality and uplift minorities!
anyway, I totally agree. what was the point of making her American? Why not make Jasmine Arabic-American while you're at it? Maybe her dad is an oil sheik who moved to America like Tina Hakim Babams dad (if you read The Princess Diaries). Or Mulan's family moved here in the 60s and dealt with being the only Asians in their all-white Californian neighborhood. Oh, because that's racist to not have their stories set in the countries they're descended from
Tiana as a proper African princess would be cool, regardless of if they stuck to TPATF story or went with another. Next thing you know, Hispanics will ask for a Latino princess and we'll get another Cinderella type story set in the Bronx instead of something cool and realistic like an Aztec princess who hates human sacrificies or something.
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Yuffie_Kisaragi
12 years ago
I agree.... but you know the PC crowd, made up of 99% idiotic white kids who think they have the right to be offended on the behalf of minority groups, would have complained like they do about anything.
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SelenaQP
12 years ago
it is NOT racist. nor was
how Tiana was originally supposed to be- darker
skinned, kinky haired waitress named Maddie. that
was how black women were! they STILL have dark
skin/kinky hair!
you make it sound like all black women look the same which is pretty stereotypical. Not all black women have dark skin and kinky hair..even back then!! There were also light skinned blacks just as it is now. For example, the Louisiana creoles and mulattos. Beyonce's mother is descended from Louisiana creoles. There are some blacks that were born with curly hair..not kinky. I know this girl from Ethiopia and she has naturally curly hair. Yeah, black women still have kinky hair but that doesn't mean that all of them choose to keep it naturally kinky. And the majority of the black women have processed their hair and it doesn't mean we are trying to "whiten" ourselves, but we just want our hair to be more manageable...If Disney really wanted to "whiten" Tiana to make her look more like the other Disney princesses, then they would not had chosen to give her more typical Black-African features like widening her nose.
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