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Walt Disney's first black princess causes controversy
news.com.au ^ | 04/27/09 | news.com.au/heraldsun

Posted on 04/26/2009 6:46:26 PM PDT by TornadoAlley3

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To: TornadoAlley3
It has also changed her name -- Tiana, instead of Maddy. Critics thought Maddy was too similar to Mammy -- a once-common term for black female slaves in white households.

And just how old are the handwringers at Disney??

How many four-year-old girls in the theaters with boxes of Milk Duds in their laps will be saying, "Mommy, did they name her Mammy 'cause she looks like the slave wet nurse my great great Grandma had?"

61 posted on 04/26/2009 7:27:28 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: GOPGuide

Yeh, maybe if she stayed covered in soot, she would not have lost her standing...


62 posted on 04/26/2009 7:27:44 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: Winstons Julia

With all of the airline layoffs, that would involve a demotion and a pay cut


63 posted on 04/26/2009 7:27:46 PM PDT by Gil4
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To: TornadoAlley3

64 posted on 04/26/2009 7:27:55 PM PDT by traumer
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To: Sir Clancelot

“she can clean and jerk”?
________

I won’t ask...


65 posted on 04/26/2009 7:30:00 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: Talisker
With Obama in the White House, the race-baiting industry is facing the appalling concept that he finally disproves their endless charges of rampant racism. Something Must Be Done.


66 posted on 04/26/2009 7:30:09 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Shouldn't there be equal time for our Bill of Responsibilities?" -- Justice Clarence Thomas)
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To: Richard Kimball
For marketing purposes, they need a black princess and a hispanic princess. This is more about doll sales than the movie.

So what these Highly Trained Anti-Racist Specialists are saying is that no girl should buy a doll that does not match the color of her skin.

68 posted on 04/26/2009 7:31:59 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: TornadoAlley3

Oprah isn’t playing the frog part?


69 posted on 04/26/2009 7:32:40 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: TornadoAlley3

It serves them right for trying to be politically correct and imposing a black princess on this old fairy tale.

As they say, “No good deed goes unpunished.” It was intended to ingratiate Disney with politically correct audiences and critics, and they have punished the company for even trying.

Next thing Disney’ll try to give us a black Cinderella. But they’ll have to change her name and give her a new job. Maybe instead of scrubbing floors, she could be a top partner in a Chicago law firm, who marries a Prince and goes to the White House.


70 posted on 04/26/2009 7:33:06 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Atom Smasher

It’s weightlifting where you take the weights from the floor right over your head. In the Olympics, the gold used to go to the Russian men and East German women.

No, I’m sure it’s not 300 pounds, despite the stereotypes.


71 posted on 04/26/2009 7:34:23 PM PDT by Sir Clancelot
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To: Sir Clancelot

Thanks for clearing that up!


72 posted on 04/26/2009 7:40:56 PM PDT by Atom Smasher
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To: bill1952
I was at WDW in Orlando and my kids watched Cinderella’s parade - All of the female characters were men drag queens.

Excuse me? Was that an attempt at humor or sarcasm or something?
Never happened in any of the times that I was there.

73 posted on 04/26/2009 7:41:06 PM PDT by Tanniker Smith (The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weight-lifting sessions each week and...)
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To: Atom Smasher

Anything I can do to clarify.


74 posted on 04/26/2009 7:41:58 PM PDT by Sir Clancelot
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To: GOPGuide; Richard Kimball
Scar was GAY?!!!

(I though the same thing) It was claimed so anyway, whether or not it's true: The claims seems a little far fetched, at least to this guy.

75 posted on 04/26/2009 7:44:21 PM PDT by Toki
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To: FloridianBushFan

Not totally true, South of the South is available overseas in many other countries, just not available in the US. And yes, it is because of political correctness.


76 posted on 04/26/2009 7:48:30 PM PDT by packrat35 (You could make a fortune as a politician if you have the moral standards of a convicted pedophile)
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To: Richard Kimball

Well Home On the Range was excruciatingly bad. It is literally the only one ever released that I absolutely hate. Dull and uninspired.


77 posted on 04/26/2009 7:50:18 PM PDT by packrat35 (You could make a fortune as a politician if you have the moral standards of a convicted pedophile)
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To: TornadoAlley3
"What? No black prince? What's up with this?" blogged James Collier on Acting White, an anti-racism website.

...hope I wrong, but from this snippet it sounds more like a hyper racism website.

78 posted on 04/26/2009 7:56:15 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: TornadoAlley3

Imagine what they’d have done today to the seven dwarfs.


79 posted on 04/26/2009 7:58:05 PM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: PLK

Martin Luther King said the same thing.

But it gets lost in the scramble to blame America first.

When I was first discharged from the Marines in the 70s I got a job in a paper mill in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The work force was predominantly black. They would, to a man, call me ‘White Boy”. I always made a point to retort “Yeah, I’m white. And I’m a MAN!” after a while they did judge me by the content of my character and not by the color of my skin.

I didn’t let this experience make me bitter. Instead I learned that bigots have no place anywhere in society. And if I see one now I don’t hesitate to instruct them on the error of their ways.


80 posted on 04/26/2009 8:14:25 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (A society that doesn't protect its children doesn't deserve to survive.)
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