Black(?) Princess

So Disney has released a teaser trailer for their highly-anticipated (well, by me at least) new animated film, The Princess and the Frog. It will mark a return to classic animation for the studio and will also be the first time a lead Princess has been African-American; and it takes place in New Orleans!

However, my complaint is... she doesn't look black; if I had not known I wouldn't have even considered she was black! She just looks like a brunette to me.



Now, this may be because black advocacy groups complained the original concepts were racist. The film had to ditch its original title, "The Frog Princess" and the Princess herself had to lose her original name of "Maddy" for "Tiana" (so she's a Korean porn star now?). And look at an original concept drawing for "Tiana".

I think she's been stripped of her African identity and she just looks like a Caucasian-ized version of a black girl.

I'mma still see it, though.

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