Disney's NEW “Little Mermaid” GOES WOKE 

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Exactly, Representation matters!

I agree with that but it’s just stupid to change white characters to black characters

Wow damn ya know I never thought that 😂 but some probably would

Name it “the black mermaid “

I mean they’ve done this for years and sometimes it works out. Nick Fury was white for years in the comics. But I can’t imagine anyone but a sam Jackson type being Nick now

No

@@mufoitzzz8798 💀

@@maximummax29 but thats because hes a great actor, and its hard to think of anyone else in his spot because it wouldn't feel the same without his personality and style. race has nothing to do with it

A reskin of the old one but it’s live action. No one said it’s a whole new person and a whole new story tf. The main point isn’t about race anyways, Ariel has nothing to do with her race. Y’all just want a reason to bxtch and complain

exactly

facts

Literal reskin

tbh he acts just like young peter

what?!

Race aside, that movie was amazing, like animation, plot, superpowers, i watched it like 4 times

@@emylet3206 so pumped for the new one

I remember him saying in the Texas high school vlog that he wasn't a big fan of marvel movies (probably superhero movies in general)

@@elilucero8862 that’s fair

i dont think any of yall in the comments were there for that either, like unless u a 33+ yr old in this comment section we basically ALL watched it becuz our parents showed us it, not because we were there when it came out

Man was like 7 😭😭 he just became conscious like 3 years ago

@@indygogames exactly lol. Im 21, no way someone just coming out of toddlerhood has been acheing for this

@@indygogames yeah, but we werent focusing on the color of their skin

@@pastjdzz ^^^

her names HALLE Bailey and parent weren’t dragging nothing.

@@raissa5521 I DONT remember asking mamas

Halle not Chloe

Didn’t even have the intelligence to know who’s staring in the movie lmao

@@MissMurfreesboro somebody’s projecting

its totally different, because im pretty sure miles morales was black in the comics, way before the movie, so sony didn't do that. plus he's just a great character in general so it doesn't matter lol

Be he’s his own character

Miles is a different case because Spider-Man is a persona if miles was Peter Parker but black then yeah but he’s his own character with his own motivation and backstory

It's completely difference because they kepted the other spidermand and plus miles morales is a w. Fuck Peter Parker

W miles It’s Black and latino rep

Well that is different because it’s a different interpretation of Spider-Man and Miles Morales isn’t Peter he’s his own character and Spider-Man has a thing where everybody can be Spider-Man

Funny is they made black spider man the villain.. idc what anyone says representation matters especially for Black people because we live in a anti-black society.. you can’t name me a European, Latin, Asian country that isn’t discriminatory against Afro-Black people..

You’d think he’d know too since he’s fought Peter Parker and miles before, bloody hopeless writing

@@Jedi_Black cope bambo Edit: also, I wish it was true, but it isn't.

@@Jedi_Black Idk about anti black society, but I can agree that black people a lot of the times are portrayed as violent gang banging thugs in a lot of shows. Or loud people who have no respect for public society which is the image most people have of black people, because that is the image the media pushes to the world about black people.

No...Christina Aguilera did the exact same thing as Hailey Bailey but she wasn't cast as the character.....Disney is just flat out wrong

@@nothx512 Christina Aguilera is like 40. I’m gonna so her age is a bigger difference than Halle being black.

Exactly

its just forced diversity that disney is doing, I ain't with it

@@ItsAndy__ how can you force diversity when Disney IS JUST now showing diversity in their PRINCESS based movies … Disney is doing what everyone in the film industry is doing with studying and showing different diversity.

the only sane comment ive seen

its more about how disgusting the parents are for teaching their kids about it

sounds like what a white person would say

Kids definitely think about race. They’re just so used to seeing white people in shows but if they saw a person who looked like them they would be excited. I’m grown now but I still think the Princess and the Frog was my favorite Disney movie because Tiana was black and represented Louisiana culture

That’s not true😂 they are kids

Absolutely!!!!!

@@dapo3538 I agree. Rhino said kids don't see race which I don't agree with. Kids definitely see race, but just don't talk about it like adults do (kids don't talk about anything, they just observe and internalise). How do I know this? Because I remember as a kid I always liked Flora and Aisha from the winx club the most just because they were black (I just recently discovered Flora wasn't black lol) they looked like me and whenever I played imaginary winx club with my friends, I would always play as one of those two characters. Same with Strawberry shortcake, I always liked Orange more because she was the only character that looked like me, so I gravitated towards her. I was around 7-10 at the time, so I definitely observed the racial differences in cartoon characters.

This!! Only person I see with some sense in the comment section, so far.

Best singer!!! Yeah right...

Im sure shell do great in the role but it was the people on tik tok and the media in general making it about race. Not these guys.

@@anaespinosa5084 that's what I'm talking about

@@mew10521 I'm guessing u were the director?

Good point

Good point!

Good point!

Good point

Good point!

Not one bit

Perfect example of making a new character!!!

@@madelyneloeffler1669 fr

@@splurg6180 Not really, it still based off a white character. So isn't exactly new as you claim it better than just taking Peter and making him black but still lazy. Blade is good example of a new and original character.

@@Dayz671 He is literally a different person than the original Spider-Man. And a completely different story

Exactly. Their imagery is everywhere. They are the default.

exactly

I am not white and I am not American yet I've always watched American TV shows with majority of White people in it but black people too yet I've never focused on seeing "my race" in it...having that mindset is weird, dawg. and reeks of racism.

but you act like their are no black characters in tv shows when their are plenty.

@@shizu-chan3942 I am not white and I am not American. I am Jamaican and grew up in Jamaica. And it mattered to be that a character was black like me. It felt more familiar and safe.

Too true 😂 Shit it’s like bizarro world 🤣

😂😂😂 right?

I don’t think they mad

They're mad at the trend, genius

@@kevinkenobipius1557 Also I’m not taking about the trend either. If you go Twitter there are people genuinely upset that they made her black saying that it “ruins the lore” and just some dumb shit

Nobody considers Miles a real spider man.

@@electrikoptik i do

@@Magiic168 nah. Miles is miles. Spider-Man is Spider-Man

@@electrikoptik He isnt the original spider man but he is a real spiderman, just black.

@@wackydude2137 okay but anyways miles is Spider-Man

And I forgot about the excessive ebonics they use in the movie

Exactly

Exactly

exactly omg

Facts

This!!

This should be the top comment

Thank you !!

Swapping skin for characters sets a bad precedent no matter which way you cut it. It's just one of many "white" princesses is no excuse. It's dangerous to teach kids that doing a skin swap is all they need or should expect. Tiana wasn't just a skin suit, her story involved elements of specific part of black culture in New Orleans. Mulan wasn't a skin suit, even though some stuff was made you got to see bits of Chinese culture. Moana got that. Pocahontas got that. Belle is French. Rapunzel is German. Merida is Scottish. And by your logic they can be lumped under their skin tone and erased for another group with another skin tone. Pushing for black faces on white stories isn't representation, it's tokenism except for some reason folks today are glad for it. Cooperations like Disney are happy for it too because they don't have to push for new characters and can just repaint old ones to the flavour of the month. One day black won't be that flavor. There's a reason most don't know Brandy was once Cinderella. Don't accept empty representation. I rather have Moesha, Kenan and Kel, My Wife and Kids, The Cosby Show, The Bernie Mac Show, Sanford and Son, The Fresh Prince, Sister Sister, In Living Colour, Living Single, The Wayans Brothers, Family Matters, The Sinbad Show, Jett Jackson (rest Lee Thompson Young's soul), The Princess and the Frog, etc. than some Friends reboot with a diverse cast nobody will remember in a couple years. Imagine how awesome it would be if Halle was given a character that was based on her, with her own name and a story that belonged to her likeness alone.

It's only about black kids....sad...even Tinker Bell....Disney is wrong....just make a show with the original Mermaid again to put out the fire

Do kids even care about skin color though? The thing is kids specifically black kids are still KIDSSSSS. kids don’t careeeee about stuff like this. The problem is parents telling them to overreact and do this and do that for a Tik tok video? The guy made a great point about when we were kids we didn’t care what color our favorite cartoon was. Although I do understand the point you were making, the intention is there but the way it’s going about it not .

Cry me a river lol

@@forgondor881 if you aren’t a black girl just say that LMAO

GLAD someone else sees it

Right like??? How do u expect non black people to educate you on struggles and issues that they won’t ever come close to experiencing? Like omg

rightt

Fr as I was watching the video I was think Noah and rod don't even really have a say in this

He literally said it’s narcissistic and exhausting for black people to want more representation in the comments…..

Ariel has always been white with red hair. That's like changing Sonic to orange

Facts that’s what I was thinking the director wasn’t any probably thinking about race he just thought “Hey Halle your great come audition you did good we are going with you”

@@ZaWrldo Disney did the same, in the original book she was green.

@@ZaWrldo they have other colors of sonic tho

@@ZaWrldo No, the character has not always been white and they don’t stick to the original story because in the original story, Ariel is green and people die lmao. Disney altered the original story.

Facts

100% facts

@@strawberryparkchannel rhino spittin rn 😮‍💨

Like the video said, if your kid’s only way of relating to a character is by the color of their skin, then you have failed them.

@@strawberryparkchannelsaying that someone wishing to see themselves represented on the big screen from time to time is narcissistic is crazy like woah?????

It's a slippery slop simple make your own princess character

For the last time, you can’t represent a race, it’s racist to think a white character, for example, is the mascot of all white ppl (that’s what the use of words like “represent,” in situations like these, means)

I think no character should be changed; ez work, make a new character like what they did with remaking the Brothers Grimm’s _The Frog Prince,_ Tiana and Naveen are completely different from the characters in that story, even the plot is different.

There’s no way kids actually care about “representation” (that racist bull), I can’t wrap my head around it. I don’t think/know any kid of any race, unless they were taught to be a racial supremacist, jumped for joy when they saw a character with the same race as them. It’s not like that character looks like them because they share the same race. That logic of “racial representation” reminds me of how everyone called any black kid a Lost Boy (usually as a joke) when we watched The Good Lie in school just because of the actors’ race and because Lost Boys were Sudanese, and well, black. I dunno, i become physically repulsed by the term “representation” these days. I get cultural representation, but not racial representation.

I mean America is a majority white country so that is the way it should be. Imagine animators in Africa made most of their characters white? That wouldn't even make sense. You'd expect the majority of characters to represent the actual population, nothing wrong with that.

@@strawberryparkchannel first time I have ever seen Strawberry Park respond

That’s what Rob said that it’s different for a show like that because of the culture behind it which is shown in certain episodes and is core part of these characters in the show

Well they could change that to any ethnicity and just make them immigrants

@@papi_18 there’s no representation behind a mermaid im glad she’s black and I don’t see a white person having a high top fade and the hair goes up like will did

Same still my favorite Disney movie from today because she resembles me , I remember falling in love with the movieeee.

Same and the voodoo man scared me for years 😂😂

Well I’m black and when I was a kid my favorite princess wasn’t even black still isn’t never cared about the color of a skin of a character and just because she is black she is like you😂😂(interesting way of thinking 😂)

@@ilovesummer9750 girl it’s interesting to say you never saw color as a black child .😂 tf you thought every princess was just like you ?? Mulan you could relate to her culture ?? Did you have hair like Rapunzel or Pochantas???? Girl NOOOO. Like be for real .

But I feel bad for the black girls who had to grow up without seeing or knowing what representation of us was or feels like . It’s truly something developed young .

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I would also like to believe the reason a lot of these parents are posting these videos is to counteract the racism. It shows that this stuff really does matter, her skin color does matter. Representation does matter, just look at our youth.

Asian don't even have a Princess but a Ninja...let that sink in...

Yeah I agree with you bro ✊🏾

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Exactly like… ok yeah you don’t feel represented seeing these black characters on tv rhino. But you don’t even make up 1% of the black population so where do we go from here like…

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Bro shutup 💀

@@ceezee57 you gots to be no older than 13 usin that emoji dawg 🤣

@@evanlick I’m way older “dawg” what has an emoji got to do with anything wtf 😂

Like as a child I obviously knew when someone did not resemble my family or color on TV.

Exactly like don't speak on something you know nothing about and they say it so confident it'd crazy

Bruh

you really believe that?

@@maustray the casting director literally said it himself 💀

Okay well would you agree the same way if they made a princess and the frog movie and made tianna to be casted as a white girl cause she sang and acted better?

@@averageperson4524 Yes..

Hispanic is not a race, its a language family. Hispanics can be white, black, Asian, native, mixed etc. White Hispanics could easily relate to white american characters, but what about black Hispanics?

@@sweetlemonade6925 I too look to asian movies for an African perspective

It is because they use black people as a money grab but don't actually TRY to make a genuine story Abt us. It's just lazy writing. I would love to see a black movie what I don't like is the fact the just race swap and don't make a actual story Abt us while calling it inclusive. It's obvious Disney doesn't care Abt black people but want money

Fr love some of their takes

Absolutely

They wherever the money is big bro

most people have differing opinions on different topics dont be like the npc republicans and democrats that make their parties their whole personality

@@ryboi1337 E.M.A.F.T.B

​@@devinsmart1547 idk what that means hopefully you are agreeing with the notion that people shouldn't be hiveminded

Someone said they casted her for her voice

the director said he thought her voice was perfect for the role

Jesus Christ am I right 😂

Right

Ok so for the next black panther you’re saying if a white person did the best in the auditions he’d get the part 😂

Yeah it is..They're doing it to Tinker Bell too...

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And? She was still black?

@@X-sway Yeah but she barely got shown as being a black woman in the movie

@@charismamayo9230 and she a mermaid so she technically not even black? So what’s your point?

@@X-sway dude the movie isn’t even about here being a black mermaid she didn’t get casted for her role bc she’s black she got casted bc she’s good at acting

@@X-sway the princess and the frog Milan and Aladdin were all about showing those princess culture but the princess and the frog was the only movie that barely showed her being a black girl and actually if you were to get someone who’s never seen princess in the frog and were to skip 10 mins into the movie I bet they would never kn she was a black women until the very end

They just don’t wanna believe that black people can be good at something

No, the reason they made Miles was to get a black Spider-Man it was essentially making a black spider-man based off of Peter Parker. Also, he was a crap character also which his comics failed because it wasn't ingenious and it wasn't good until the movie came out.

Representation by replacing pre-existing white characters with black ones? If they made a black character white, the entire black community would be in an uproar.

I totally agree but i was actually really disappointed about Princess and the Frog since she was the first black Disney princess but she had to be the struggle princess and she was a frog most of the film. I definitely feel like representation matters like you said but we need fresh and better examples than what Disney already gave

@@natarixo9965 I completely agree

Sure princess in the frog came out 13 years ago but how many Disney Princesses have been made since? State the whole story

@@gman4eva9 they purposely had princesses of other ethnicities lined up so they won't get hate. Tiana was an animal for 95% of the movie when she wasn't slaving away with her poor and ghetto lifestyle before a white girl saves her day. LOL.

What about Asians?? They don't have a Princess...but a Ninja....that argument is void

& not ‘woke’ woke but legit self aware.

@@strawberryparkchannel i dont think u guys r controversial ur stating what the woke media doesn't wanna hear

Stop Lying lol

@@morarynn Corporations don't care about being "Woke" they care about making money and being woke brings in more audiences. Back then most of these corporations were racist and pushing an anti black narrative because most rich white people back then wanted that. Nowadays it has changed

Nigerian that like strawberry park I feel represented lol

Fr and the original mermaid was a greenish blue color it wasn't white in the first place but no one complained that it was turned white

No I think her being black isn't really the issue. It's giving black people the scraps when they could make an actual movie Abt us. The entire situation is just Disney being money hungry not that they ACTUALLY care about black people. And black people eat this stuff up because we're not used to seeing ourselves but at the same time we deserve a much more better story that actually has a plot Abt us. They think they can just race change and they can get money how Abt make an actual effort in it. This movie just really shortchanges us. It has nothing to do with inclusivity it has everything to do with money and that's it. They just see black ppl as a money making avenue

@@aurerixa6379 That is a factor but the majority are just made because she’s black. I do believe disney should just create new and more diverse characters. But that’s no excuse for people to react the way they are.

HELP 😭😭😭

My point exactly.

Exactly, but these guys are just grown men that throw tantrums for no reason.

You don’t but at the end of the day making the charecters yellow isn’t a smart idea for the movie who said kids movies can’t be enjoyed

What if race is not a part of the story, it’s not based on real life events. Is it okay to make the original black character white?

@@xxUkiyo in this situation yes

@@xxUkiyo yes they’ve done that many times

@@xyzcredits4614 so if Marvel casted a white dude to play Blade or Falcon, that would be fine? Yalls logic is so messed up

Most princess were white tho it's base on heritage..

Same

I would say that we do see race and colour even when we are 8,9 years old. But we don't attach the colour or race to any other ideology. Which is what makes it innocent. If you stay the same. You don't deny the truth of your eyes and the colours it shows but your able to see beyond anything prejudiced.