When I saw this, a little piece of me died inside. I thought, wow we haven’t done this yet? And wow, I almost didn’t notice that we haven’t done this yet! Now, I pride myself in being somewhat color blind, which may have contributed to me not noticing that, in 2009, we are only now having the first ever black Disney princess. I thought we had made a little more progress than that, but I guess we’ve taken the term ‘‘baby steps’’ literally. To restore our faith in humanity, somewhat, I`ve listed a few other great days in Black History.
SEPTEMBER 11, 1999--At 17, Serena Williams became the first Black female to win the U.S. Open tennis title since Althea Gibson's historic 1958 victory.
JULY 11, 2000--The Rev. Vashti Murphy McKenzie is elected the first woman bishop of the AME Church.
FEBRUARY 19, 2002--Vonetta Flowers (with teammate Jill Bakken) won a gold medal in the women's bobsled event at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City. She became the first Black athlete to win a gold medal at the Winter Olympics.
MARCH 26, 2002--The first class-action lawsuit for reparations was filed in U.S. District Court in New York City on behalf of descendants of African-American slaves.
APRIL 12, 2003--Army Specialist Shoshana Johnson, the first Black female Prisoner of War, is rescued by U.S. Marines. She was one of seven soldiers captured by forces in Iraq.
OCTOBER 26, 2005--Ken Williams, general manager of the Chicago White Sox, hoists the championship trophy after the team he put together won the World Series in a four-game sweep against the National League champion Houston Astros. The White Sox hadn't won a World Series title since 1917.
January 20, 2009 – Barack H. Obama is the 44th President of the United States and the first African- American president.
The excerpt dated from 1999-2005 was taken from -http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_4_61/ai_n26732708/pg_3/?tag=content;col1
The picture of Tiana the Princess was taken from http://www.cinemablend.com/images/news_img/12019/12019.jpg
The movie is called “The Princess and the Frog” and is set to release late November 2009. I will keep you all posted!!
Question time!
The movie is said to be quite controversial as Tiana, the black princess, spends most of the movie as a frog and falls in love with a white prince. What are your thoughts? I know you have many...Comment below.
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3 comments:
It's plain and simple... black girls don't trust black guys, hence the white prince. As for the whole being a frog for half the movie it sounds like either Disney is trying to stray as far from the frog prince story as possible or they would much rather animate a frog for half a movie than a person =P
why did she have to be a frog? couldn't she be a horse? now that's a majestic animal! so did the white prince kiss her and turned her into a princess? now i could read a lot into that...but i wont...i just changed my mind!!
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