politically correct

I went to get some fake flowers with Jackie last night and in the store I noticed that they only had barbie-like dolls of the white characters in High School Musical on sale. I then got to thinking about board games and shit like that. When I was in New Orleans, I spent some time at a children's day care. I played some games with the kids, but a few minutes into the one game, I think it was "Clue Jr.", I started getting this really trippy feeling. I was pretty much the only white person in the room and here we are playing a board game that consisted of all white characters. I can't imagine being surrounded by things like that. If the games featured characters of different origins, it probably wouldn't just be called a board game. They would call it a "learning tool for children" or "diversity game" or some weird shit like that. Why is it that it's the year 2008 and we still can't get past that barrier?

Disney is especially super weird with their shit. All the princesses up until 1992 (Aladdin) were white. They even added a ginger kid to the mix which was The Little Mermaid. Aladdin, set in the middle east, featured Jasmine who is personally my favorite. They followed up with Pochahontas, which although is historically a true story, they definitely tweaked it quite a bit, and last but not least, China's Mulan.

While representing multiple cultures, Disney failed to do that in a tasteful way when representing Africa. The Lion King, set in Africa, displays a movie of all animals. The movie is epic no doubt, but why not humans like the rest of the movies? Disney has failed to display any black characters in their films unless it was given an animalistic role. Aside from the lions, warthogs, and monkeys--there was Sebastian, the Jamaican crab in The Little Mermaid.

Disney also made a proposal a few years back to build an area representing Africa in the company's renown Epcot, but failed to follow through with the plans.

HOWEVER, in 2009 they will be having their first black princess. All I know about the movie is that she is given the title "The Frog Princess" (what the fuck?) and that it will be based in New Orleans. Hmmm... prior to or after Katrina I wonder? At least the music will be dope.