In Disney's Defense

There has been alot of mixed reviews with movies that Disney Animation has produced in the last decade or so. I personally doubt it will ever stop. I believe this is still a hot topic which is release of the newest Disney Princess, Tiana. I was still in high school when the movie was first announced, I was one excited 11th grader. The movie went through probably numberous rewrites and changes before it was released in December 2009. The number one rewrite was the plot altogether. She was orginally suppose to be a chamber maid. For those who haven't seen the Disney Princess movies, Snow White and Cinderella both were in the maid catagory. Belle and Mulan were peasants. Snow White, Jasmine, Pocahontas, Aurora and Ariel were actual Princesses. Also they are all based in non-American countries, excluding Pocahontas.

Tiana is the first African-American Princess. If she wasn't American she would have had to be placed in another hugely "black" country or area. How popular would have the Disney's first Congo Princess have been? Alot of follow bloggers and Youtubers say that they came out with Princess Tiana only because of our current Presidents two adorable daughters. Well if thats the case and putting the facts, what if Barack hadn't have won? Since this movie was announced 2006 or 2007 before the elections had even begun either Disney's productionist can see the future or this movie was simply Disney Animation going in a different direction. I think the latter. The main point of this blog is to pretty much defend an aniamated movie. This movie was full of first: first black princess, first cajun firefly, the first interracial couple. I suppose the black population of America wasn't ready for a interracial couple. However as an African-American lady I have zero problem with any type of couple. I feel that African-American women deceived to have a princess since we have stepped up, we raise the kids, work to provide for our families.

I'm not saying every guy, but African-American men still haven't stepped up as much as they need too to become that Disney Prince. So intead Tiana got a racially ambiguous Prince. Prince Naveen isn't black, white or anything no one knows, no one ever will probably. He's whatever you want him to be. Personally he remains me of one of my Turkish co-workers back in 2009. Pretty much it all boils down to a the fact this is a Disney movie, it's not going to do any harm to your little Princesses and Princes if they see it. If anything it'll make them want to work just as hard as Tiana does to get what they want out of life. Is that so bad? Thanks for reading.