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Shop NowWhen Disney remade “The Little Mermaid” with a black girl, Halle Bailey, as Ariel, it surely thought it would be pleasing the woke portion of this country.
Instead, the move has completely backfired.
Reviews have been harsh, with one diversity advocate hammering the movie for trying to erase slavery.
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The days of being creative are now gone.
The woke crowd is now lurking around every corner waiting for someone to make even the smallest mistake so they can pounce, as is the case here.
Marcus Ryder, an influential British campaigner and chair of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, applauded the movie for casting a black lead.
He stated, “A world in which the very idea of race for the main characters seems to be subverted, consciously ignored and at the same time Black beauty is celebrated, needs to be applauded.”
Then he went off, stating, “While the importance of casting the Little Mermaid as a Black woman has been commented on in numerous articles the casting of the other roles is also worth a mention … At the same time the Little Mermaid’s father is White while her Mermaid sisters are of various different races and ethnicities.
“Race as a social construct, as we know it, clearly does not exist underwater.”
He continued, “In this setting, I do not think we do our children any favors by pretending that slavery didn’t exist.
“For me Disney’s preference to try and wish the inconvenient truth away says more about the adult creatives than it does about children’s ability to work through it.”
He added, “But the total erasure and rewriting of one of the most painful and important parts of African diasporic history, is borderline dangerous, especially when it is consumed unquestioningly by children.”
This is a fantasy movie, not a historical piece, so how about you just give it a break for a second and let the kids enjoy it.
Does everything we do these days have to succumb to these woke narratives?
Source: New York Post
