Diversity on Broadway- Page 26

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 4:29pm

You've already looped through this president/disney princess list.  And it does not prove that the one-way street that is racism is gone in this culture.  It doesn't.  And I am absolutely sure whatever black people you think you encounter in your fantasy life are ever so grateful that you don't see their color, because your decision not to see things is what your entirely unbaked theories about race hinge upon.

 

You really need to pull back to this "comparison to slaves all day" BS that you have contrived and stop trying to make it seem as if this is a real thing anywhere but in your racist imagination.  Because it is NOT.  

Updated On: 11/7/15 at 04:29 PM

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 4:38pm

Then why did Disney receive so many death threaths in letters when making The Princess and the Frog, when Tiana in the first script was like Cinderella? Maid turned into princess?

Not feeling inferior? Dream on.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 4:46pm

You're HILARIOUS the way you shift the goal in each of your posts.

 

Let me just tell you something about how the world works:  However much you may imagine isolated stories about the making of a single feature length cartoon illustrate larger trends that somehow (in some way that has never been clear by you) illustrate that racism isn't a problem and that every single day you have to endure hearing every single black person in 2015 compared to a slave, THEY. DO. NOT.

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 4:51pm

They do. An you are hilarious for not realizing it.

What is your opinion on those threats? Which were actually on the news. Or is that one of those things you conveniently close your eyes for too. Bravo. Have fun in your fantasy world.

Also, all examples have the same point. In case you didn't notice.

Updated On: 11/7/15 at 04:51 PM

[Showface]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 4:56pm

You know another thing racists do? Make broad generalizations about a race.

 

Example: saying that every single black person in 2015 compares his or herself to a slave.

 

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 4:59pm

BUT IT WAS ON THE NEWS

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:02pm

Ok, have it your way, black people don't feel inferior, they don't care about equal rights or more jobs and they never compare themselves to slaves. Sleep tight.

 

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:06pm

Showface said: "You know another thing racists do? Make broad generalizations about a race."

 

You mean like "all white people are responsible for our unhappiness and we, black people, ourselves never make any separation based on race whatsoever?"

Good one.

 

Updated On: 11/7/15 at 05:06 PM

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:07pm

Source?

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:09pm

Again with the quotation marks around things that are only in his own head!

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:11pm

Phyllis Rogers Stone said: "BUT IT WAS ON THE NEWS"

 

They also showed the letters and the broken windows of the office. And people were interviewed about it, and couldn't believe such racism from black people still exists. Maybe they were hoping that white people would open their arms and say "oh pityful black creatures, how bad to have a  black Cinderella like we had a white one, but don't worry, we fully support your threats and we will be there for you, equality out of pity, that's wonderful". or something like that?

 

Updated On: 11/7/15 at 05:11 PM

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:12pm

FindingNamo said: "Again with the quotation marks around things that are only in his own head!"

 

And where is your head? In the sand?

 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:16pm

It's up in the air enough to know that a Disney princess doesn't disprove you know nothing about racism OR critical thinking.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:18pm

I just Googled Disney broken windows princess and the frog. 

[Dave19]

Posted: 11/7/15 at 5:27pm

Now we're at it, the first big controversy in the media actually was about the title of the film "The Frog Princess", people insisted to have it changed, because it could indicate to some people that he black princess would be as ugly as a frog and that would be out of the question because the frist black princess had to be beautiful. So they had to change the acftual title of the film.

 

After the movie title controversy cleared, Disney was faced with another piece of controversy when people started to object to the black princess's name and her occupation. Her original name was Maddy and she was supposed to be a maid to a white family in New Orleans. The name bothered people because it is not the kind of name people would associate with a black princess, so Disney agreed to change the name to the more regal-sounding Tiana. Somehow, Disney did not see the original maid occupation as demeaning, but after it was pointed out to them the Disney animators changed her from a maid to a cook.

The prince caused some problems for people as well. Some groups were expecting a black prince to go with the black princess, but that is not how the movie turned out. The prince is a Middle Eastern sounding guy named Prince Naveen. Disney thought that an interracial love story would be a contemporary plot device, but Disney quickly realized that they are not going to win no matter what they do, so they left the Prince as a Middle Eastern man and shunned those that wanted a black prince.

In the long list of things that Disney could not seem to understand when it came to the "Princess and the Frog" controversy was setting the movie in New Orleans. Of all the places that Disney could choose as a setting for its first black princess story, it just had to be the place recently associated with a bad case of racial tension.

But Disney plowed through all of that and finally released the movie to what they still thought would be a triumphant reception. In the end, the reception was less than triumphant .....The use of voodoo......... to the point where many groups called for a boycott of the movie.
Etc.

 

If one would not feel inferior, none of this would matter. And because of this behaviour, they will evoke the opposite of equality. Cause and result.

 

 

Updated On: 11/7/15 at 05:27 PM