Disney Princess Conflict

345 Words2 Pages
As a curious young child, I always asked my daddy why black characters were absent in children’s books, Disney movies, and toys? My parents made sure to expose me to things that related to the Black community, however, the popular things were never associated with Blacks. In the most recent Disney princess movie the main character the princess identified as an African American. I was excited because as a young child there were no African American princesses. Disney faced conflict address African-American community concern about the motion picture. The title of the film originally was “The Frog Princess to “The Princess and the Frog”. I was more concerned with the fact that the prince was not Black. Why is it that every other princess movie