More on the Travails of Tiana....Disney's first "Black" princess

oy redux.

I'm sorry, I couldn't look away...there were too many links.....the crap was all too deep...the stench too odiforous....I dare say, go to the site below to read what these people are saying about Tiana, the "Black" princess and Disney....and us/humans/African people.......

http://www.whataboutourdaughters.com/2008/08/first-black-disney-princess-in-theaters-christmas-2009-trailer/

There are alot of responses to this one, including mine...which as of this post is probably being looked over by the moderator....(yikes...I suspect a conspiracy....I click submit and it tells me, "Duplicate comment detected;
it looks as though you've already said that!"  I hope that means it went through....ok, here's what came outa my digital pie-hole....(tell me if you see this post there!)

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"We're kidding, right?  We have to be!  We are STILL WAITING for DISNEY, of all cultural bandits, to throw out on its big-screen toilet seat a culturally sensitive version of a woman?...a princess?...let alone an AFRICAN(-America) princess?  We have every right to watch out for this one.  Disney has done nothing but create models of dependent, weak, sexualized women in their major franchise of so-called princesses (ain't one of 'em got an army and I ain't seen no map of their princessdoms...where are their families? Show me some real female power here....but no....that's not what they do!)

For all of the women clamouring to take their daughters to this movie.....please, please, PLEASE, I implore you.....go first by yourself.  Media images can be powerful.  Listen to the  bell hooks critiques or to Jean Kilbourne or Susan Faludi.  These women are actually thinking and caring about your daughters.  Disney wants YOUR money and your daughters' allegiance to characters that don't represent them, that narrow their definitions as women and create stories of dependency and oppression.  PLEASE check out the documentary, "Mickey Mouse Monopoly" before you watch or buy anything else Disney-fied (Demand it from your local libraries!).  Please, for the sake of their self-esteem.  If any of you are so concerned, but need more information, please look at the above writers/academics.  Also reference, "THe Mouse That Roared" by Giroux.  (Sweet mother, my sentence structure is all discombobulated now!)....(sigh....methinks I'm sweating)....

It truly concerns me that in this day and age, we have knee-jerk reactions to anything promised to be "black" in the public eye.  Neither Obama nor Tiana is gonna save African people from our own task of redefining ourselves (have we learned nothing from Kwanzaa? - or are we waiting for Disney to make a Kwanzaa movie before we think that's ok?!), looking into our past to mine the depth, the wealth of queendoms, kingdoms and chiefdoms, of political and spiritual ascendency, of governance, of communalism beyond "why can't we all just get along", of real technological advancement on every level of being.  Disney knows nothing of all that and I wouldn't trust them with 1% of our history as African people.  We have way too many film and tv producers, far too many writers, far too many teachers and professors, far to many thinkers and doers and lovers of truth and creators and poets to depend on a $ingle-minded, cycloptic megalith like Disney to throw us one more doe-eyed, disempowered princess....whether she be black, Black, Blaque, African, African-American, Afro-American, Negroid, Africoid, Carribean, Nubian, Abyssinian, Ethiopian or whatever they wanna draw us as."
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This is a train-wreck in the making.