ok, so this new 2D movie from disney underwent some changes for being racist. originally, the story is set in jazzy new orleans with the main character, a black girl named maddy, and she was a chambermaid to rich southern white folk in the 1920s.

the people claimed that 'maddy' was too much of a racist name to give a black girl and make her a chamber maid much less. disney started to get a whole lot of shit at them for making a black girl a chambermaid in the 20s.

so now maddy is no longer maddy, her name is Tiana. and she is no longer a chambermaid, she is... i dunno. she's just some black girl wandering some white people's mansion i guess. and with all these revisions i think goes the chance of disney actually making something truly great.

and who the fuck are these people getting mad that disney made some black girl a maid?!! HELLOO?!!! snow white and cinderella were maids and they were white as fuck! look, disney ALWAYS gives the story to the underdog, showing that through anything, the good guys always win and a beauty could love a beast and a hunchback would no longer be regarded as a freak and a street rat could be a prince.

and wtf, it's okay to call a middle eastern princess 'jasmine' but calling a black maid 'maddy' is too bold?

the story seemed to be so genuinely heartwarming: a young black slave girl becomes a princess after she meets her prince. i mean really, whoudla thunk it huh? on top of racism, there'd be the whole class issue she'd have to overcome as she was a maid. aladdin was a poor bum, mulan was a woman and restricted from alot of things cause she had no penis, ummm... ariel was a mermaid and couldn't walk, lol. even max from 'a goofy movie' was a complete social outcast who proved even losers can become winners.

disney's ALWAYS pretty much made the hero someone you wouldn't expect to be, someone who had the poor unfortunate chance of being born a pauper instead of a prince. and thats the point. but you got these fucking ignorant pissants going, "waaaaaah!!! i can't believe they're taking a black girl set in the 20's to be a slave of some sort!! that stuff would like, NEVER HAPPEN now!! and i don't want my kids seeing that! i don't want them to know it happened!!"

wait, am i missing the point? you sure? why else would they want the black maid concept thrown out the window like it's a rotten egg? was it really that bad and radical of an idea? are kids too dull minded to accept that people were, and still, treated differently for the color of their skin?

you know, most kids could care less mulan was chinese or aladin was arabic or esmerelda was a gypsy or whatever. THEY DON'T CARE. THEY ARE NOT THE ONES COMPLAINING. the audience this movie is aimed at could care less if tiana was black or green or purple. its the stupid parents or some bullshitted FCC comittee that's already deemed that familiar old disney concepts 'rags to riches' theme is 'too much for black people' pretty much.

well most black movies are like that!! remember the titans (i know it's a disney movie, but it wasn't aimed at kids), dreamgirls, glory- all great movies doing with black people trying to beat their oppression! well, in glory they all die... but they died with honor and as an equal to their white commander!

anyways, i had to let that out of my chest. that film didn't need any tampering with the plot as far as i knew. it's not like the black crows from dumbo, for christ'sakes... and those crows were fucking FUNNY!!! lol even though they were blatantly stereotypical black people... but it was a different time back then. i doubt now like they're gonna animate maddy scarfing down as much watermelon and KFC as she can while picking cotton.

EDIT (i'm well aware during that time, new orleans didn't really have slaves. it was a community practically where white people n black people lived together, but seperated. new orleans was mainly filled with french people and they didn't keep the idea of slavery, so it was a segregated community nonetheless. still, i liked the original 'maddy maid' story. XP)