“Some people apparently couldn’t handle the audacity of reinventing a cartoon character...”
I dislike it, also. The characters invented in the past were in most cases consistent with the surroundings of their stories, and were developed with an individual personality and appearance. So why reinvent it and change it for a political purpose. It’s artificial.
“Black children and their moms being able to see themselves in a Disney heroine...”
There are heroines of color in many Disney features. Of course the Princess and the Frog, Wish, Little Mermaid TV series Gabriella, X-Men Ororo Munroe, Aida on Broadway, Queen La of Opar From Legend of Tarzan, Shuri from Black Panther, and Sade.
We put too much weight on color. I’m Irish, basically, and I don’t have but one female character to root for and that was from Darby O’Gill and played by Janet Monroe, Katie O’Gill. (And Monroe is British in reality)
Why do we have to place politics in fantasy? It’s far from the truth to begin with. What color was Dumbo? Does it matter?
wy69
Love that movie. Have watched it many times.