What About a BLACK Prince Disney??

    

    So Disney is off to the races with a remake of the classic Snow White. Once again the uproar will begin with the princess not being white.

    I don't know if the vocal protestors are parents who want their children to have white only fantasy characters or are they disturbed by their own childhood bedtime story being changed? In a world filled with so many different types of children and fantasy books, surely more than one VISION of a story can exist. How wonderful would it be for the child to have a collection of the different tellings of a MADE UP tale with a FEEL GOOD message where everyone lives happily ever after. The adults are demonstrating to the children, that NO, we CAN'T live happily ever after if the princess is not white.

    The success of actress Brandi starring in the role of Cinderella, Halle Bailey as the 2023 Little Mermaid, Moana 2016, and an original Black Disney princess, Princess Tiana in 2009, demonstrates there is an audience for beautiful princesses of all colors. I believe the genie is out of the bottle for other than WHITE being a featured Disney Princess. Rachel Zegler, a Latino, is slated to play Snow White and the most disturbing comment I have read so far is, "It's Snow White. Not Snow Beige." I'm sure there is more UGLY to come.

     The reason given for doing remakes with racially diverse lead princesses is so every little girl can picture herself as being a beautiful princess no matter her color. She should be able to dream of a handsome prince falling in love with HER and living happily ever after over a kingdom of adoring peasants. Every girl should have a 'look to' for ideals of beauty, romance, love, and idealic life. Point taken.

    But, why hasn't there been a BLACK PRINCE yet? Are only WHITE men princes? Are they the only ones who can be future leaders of great kingdoms? Or is there a LARGER problem with there being a Black Disney prince?

     I wonder how many parents of tiny little girls would be willing to take their darlings or even read them a book with a handsome, dashing, physically attractive Black man coming to the rescue of a princess physically and financially? How would parents of different ethnicities feel about their little daughter dreaming of a Black Prince Charming envisioning romance, love, marriage, and family with HIM? I imagine the idea bringing on seizures in the most WOKE spoken non-black parent.

    All it takes to imagine what will happen with a handsome Black Disney prince is to look at what happened with a handsome Black man in the lead role of love interest in the hit series BRIDGERTON.

     Rege-Jean Page starred in season one of the series as one of its most eligible bachelors in 2020. Bridgerton was critically acclaimed for its direction, actor performances, production and set design. Rege-Jean Page has become world-famous for his role as the seductive and passionate Simon Basset (Duke of Hastings) in Bridgerton the series created by Chris Van Dusen and produced by Shonda Rhimes, based on the literary saga of the American writer Julia Quinn, who is taking Netflix by storm.

   The 31-year-old British-Zimbabwean interpreter’s fame has grown so much that recently his fans mobilized to nominate him to be the next James Bond to replace Daniel Craig. For the position again Page would compete, in theory with Henry Cavill, Idris Elba, James Norton, Richard Madden, Sam Heughan, Tom Hardy, and Tom Hiddleston. Regé-Jean Page, who shows off his muscular and slim body in various sex scenes in ‘Bridgerton’, has become a true 21st-century sex symbol for men and women.

     Since it is adults who are uncomfortable with the remakes of the Disney princess movies we must acknowledge, using the the 2023 release of the Little Mermaid as an example, and its target audience persona. For the remake, the target audience was young adults and families, aged 18-34, who hold a nostalgic connection to the original film. Here is how the movie performed:

Domestic Box Office	$292,241,557
International Box Office	$252,797,441
Worldwide Box Office	$545,038,998

    Not bad huh? That is a large number of possible 18-34 year old ladies drooling over a Black prince along with their little children, sisters, or little nieces. Women do tend to go in groups to movies.

    The remake of Snow White is already getting buzz for stating “It’s no longer 1937… She’s not gonna be saved by the prince.” So what will be the FUTURE ROLE of princes in Disney movies?

    Can you IMAGINE Disney giving PERMISSION for girls - women to go in droves and desire a Black MAN?!! To DREAM of being LOVED by a Black MAN?!! What's left when you take being saved by him out of the equation?

     I say count your blessings. Embrace the non-white Snow White and as they have been called, the 7 meth-head like dwarfs who aren't dwarfs. You can't even begin to be able to handle a BLACK PRINCE.