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Throughout most of the history of the United States, Black people have been viewed as a regrettable nuisance, easily confined to ghettos and living quarters on “the other side of the tracks”. History books found it difficult to chronicle a list of exploits or inventions ascribed to Black people, a most unfortunate side-effect of the institutional and self-segregating ways employed by Black people.
Black people were largely ignored and history seemed to relegate their shockingly minor contributions - save for the inclusion of a tale of Harriet Tubman here or Fredrick Douglas there – to a mere footnote in the chronological accounts of America.
That ignorance of Black people’s truly colossal significance to the United States has been replaced with a month long celebration of their history and a marketing campaign generated by a large Fortune 50 – McDonald’s – that works to celebrate an authentic 365 Black atmosphere.
The success of the Civil Rights movement in America, of course, distilled United States history to one long train of abuses and usurpations toward Black people by the white majority and helped codify Black Run America (BRA), thereby creating a nearly infinite army of Disingenuous White Liberals to monitor and Crusading White Pedagogues to enforce the official policies of this benevolent regime at war with Pre-Obama America’s racist past.
Nothing could be more shockingly racist then the 1960s cartoons drawn by the artists at Hanna-Barbera. There, the future – as depicted in The Jetsons – was all-white, devoid of Black people completely. Worse, the past – as depicted in The Flintstones – was awash in a mesh of whiteness and hilarious un- PC, BC jokes.
Remember, the population of the United States in 1960 was roughly 9-10ths white, with the other 10 percent being Black people. Rare was the sight of the Mexican or Oriental. The reflection of the 90 percent white population was commonly replicated on popular television shows at the time.
Thus, The Jetsons and The Flintstones storylines reveal the cartoon predilections of Pre-Obama America and showcase a past filled with only white people (and their love for bowling) and a future filled with only white people (who find joy in the benefit of machines performing the mundane tasks of life).
Fred Flintstone and George Jetson were merely the products of furtive minds rooted in the racist past of America (consider, the Flintstones lived in Bedrock… thus creating the impression that white people form the Bedrock of any competent society).
Thankfully, the insipid white world of The Flintstones is giving a colorful make-over in the 1994 live-action movie adaptation. Halle Berry, the Black actress (who has the peculiar racial heritage of being the byproduct of a white-Black fornication session), breaks the color-barrier of The Flintstonesmonochromatically white world:
"The Flintstones" cartoon, which was a major prime time hit back in the 1960s, did not feature any Black characters. And Ms. Berry said it was time for that to change. "This is the '90s and we're a whole lot different today and that was one of the reasons I went to my agent when I heard they were having a hard time casting this role. Sharon (Stone) had turned it down and they saw a lot of White actresses and nobody got the role. And I said to my agent, |This is a comedy. Can they take a joke? Will they see me?' And he said he would try. The director agreed to see me. When I met with him, I told him I thought it should be integrated. This character wasn't established in the cartoon. And they could make it whatever they wanted. And if not me, it should be somebody of color."
Director Brian Levant agreed with her. When asked about the casting, he told Jet: "We wanted to create a more racially-balanced world. I minored in Black History in college and learned where life began. I thought it was ridiculous in 1960 that it was a totally White world and here we have all these different culture existing today and I wanted to see it in the film."
Ms. Berry said it is extremely important for her to go after all kinds of roles--those written specifically for Black women as well as those that could be played by either Black or White women.
"In 1994, we're viewing Black women differently," she said. "There was a time when Black women weren't considered beautiful and sexy and the objects of man's desires. And when we were in films, we were the nanny or the prostitute or the crackhead. This role is one of those small little steps that say, |Hey, the way we're being perceived is different today.'"…
"I'd just like to have good work that I can be proud of and hope that I've crossed the color line and opened doors for others who come behind me," she said.
As Sharon Stone, the sexually amped secretary in The Flintstones, Berry knocked down an ostensibly impenetrable white wall of intolerance, removing one more hindrance in overcoming the insidious nature of Pre-Obama America by integrating The Flintstones.
In the rubble of The Flintstones once uniformly white world, you could almost hear Barney laugh.
The Hanna-Barbera cartoon franchise is a sad reminder of the sordid days of Pre-Obama America, when the nation was building to a Jetson-like future, until the Civil Rights movement thankfully got in the way and created a new path for the American experiment to tread down.
That path is paved with subprime mortgages instead of the bucolic Flintstone’s past and the futuristic white world of the Jetsons.
Stuff Black People Don’t Like welcomes color-barrier busting Halle Berry to the fictional Black History Month Heroes list, for she brought some much needed color to the white world of Fred, Wilma and Dino.This achievement shouldn’t be overlooked, for pop culture is a vital source of creating Black heroes to look up to.
The wait is finally over. After patiently waiting nearly a century to see it, Black people will finally enjoy the sight of a Black princess in a Walt Disney film, with the November 25 release of The Princess and the Frog:
"Move over Snow White. Make room for Disney’s first black princess.
With America’s first African-American president in the White House, Disney is counting on an African-American princess to be a big hit in Hollywood.
But even though The Princess and the Frog isn’t released until later this year, it is already stirring up controversy.
For while Princess Tiana and many in the cartoon cast are black – the prince is not.
Which has led some critics to complain that Disney has ducked the opportunity for a fairytale ending for a black prince and princess.
While some have hailed Disney’s decision as a reflection of melting pot America, others say the company is sending out a mixed message.
Although the black princess’s love interest in the new animated musical is called Prince Naveen of Maldonia and is voiced by a Brazilian actor, he looks more white than black in photographs from the film that Disney have released.
Since Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937, all of Disney’s princesses have predominantly been white.
A native Indian princess was featured in Pocahontas and Jasmine in Aladdin had a Middle Eastern appearance."
Analyst are unsure if this movie will play with a global audience, for as we found out earlier Black people don't like their own hair and do everything they can to make it appear like a white persons locks, but the ebony Disney princess appears to be of perhaps 1/4 or 1/8 African ancestry. Thus, can she really be an authentically Black princess, when her features are oh so white?:
"The Frog Princess is the first animated film to be conceived since Disney's 2006 acquisition of Pixar Animation Studios, the computer animation house that created such blockbusters as Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Finding Nemo and Cars.
The use of a classic hand-drawn process may be an indication Disney intends to create two streams of animation — one computer based, one based on more classic techniques.
Randy Newman, who created music for Toy Story, A Bug's Life and Cars, will write the score.
John Musker and and Ron Clements, who co-directed TheLittle Mermaid, Aladdin and Hercules, wrote the story and will direct the film, which is set in New Orleans.
"The film's New Orleans setting and strong princess character give the film lots of excitement and texture," Walt Disney Studios Chairman Dick Cook said.
The heroine, Maddy, becomes the first African American among the Disney princesses, who are collectively responsible for more than $3 billion in annual retail sales.
Disney abandoned hand-drawn animation after 2004's Home on the Range, one of a series of animated films that provided poor returns.
The company bought Pixar, known for its computer-generated imagery, and gave Pixar's John Lasseter creative control of animated features.
Analysts said Disney may be retesting hand-drawn works with The Frog Princess with the idea of producing more films using the classic animation process that launched the original Disney studios."
A hand-drawn cartoon coming out in an era of James Cameron's Avatar and other computer animated movies, such as Pixar's Toy Story 3, might be bit of a stretch, considering Disney's last hand-drawn film - Home on the Range - made a whopping $50 million at the domestic box office (compared to Pixar's Up, which made $292 million).
Black people might not like the answer to this question, but are they being used in an attempt to regenerate interest in Disney's traditional money-making behemoth (hand-drawn animated films)?
After all, it will be primarily Black people in the audience of The Princess and the Frog, for this is who the movie is appealing to (interesting the setting for the film is everyone's favorite chocolate city, New Orleans).
"Fifty years after psychologist Kenneth Clark conducted the doll test that was used to help make the case for desegregation in the landmark case Brown v. Board of Education, a 17-year-old filmmaker redid the social experiment and learned that not much has changed.
In the 1954 test, Clark showed children a black doll and a white doll and asked black children which doll they preferred. The majority chose the white. The findings were not surprising for the time. In the summer of 2005, Kiri Davis, a high-school teen, sat with 21 black kids in New York and found that 16 of them liked the white doll better.
"Can you show me the doll that you like best?" Davis asked a black girl in the film. The girl picked the white doll immediately. When asked to show the doll that "looks bad," the girl chose the black doll. But when Davis asked the girl, "Can you give me the doll that looks like you?" the black girl first touched the white doll and then reluctantly pushed the black doll ahead.
The film has left audiences across the country stunned and has reignited a powerful debate over race."It's amazing that two generations after the 'Black Is Beautiful' mantra of the 1960s, some African Americans still believe that it's not," Monroe Anderson wrote in the blog MultiCultClassics.
"It's amazing that four decades after James Brown's chart-topper, 'I'm Black and I'm Proud,' so many African Americans aren't. It's amazing that in the same year hip-hop artist Kanye West told the world that 'President Bush doesn't care about black people,' Davis was discovering that neither do shorties in Harlem."
One blogger thinks that when black girls try to bleach their skin or black kids pick white dolls as a better-looking toy, it is merely a reflection of the societal stereotype. This stereotype is continually reinforced."
SBPDL is going to lapse into a prediction: The Princess and the Frog will make roughly $125 million at the domestic box office, flop in Europe and be a relative hit in South America. Black people will flock to the film like single women did to Titanic and testosterone fueled guys did to 300.
However, the merchandise wing of Disney will profit nicely off the ethnocentrism that Black people rightly feel for this film, as they will buy their kids every conceivable piece of flair that promotes this movie:
"This Halloween, 4.5 million girls will dress up as a princess, according to a recent survey from the National Retail Federation. More than a few of them will be a Disney princess, a category that ranks seventh on this year's list of top 10 costumes for kids. Cinderella has been a perennial favorite, but this season, there's another princess on the rise. Princess Tiana, Disney's first new princess in 10 years, is also the brand's first African-American princess. The movie, "The Princess and the Frog," is a musical fairy tale in which Tiana, a girl from New Orleans, voiced by actress Anika Noni Rose, is mistaken for a princess by a frog prince who asks her to kiss him to break the spell. Though the film does not arrive in theaters until Dec. 11, Tiana Halloween costumes are already a hot property. And in an unusual twist, the character is resonating more with adults than with little girls.
Deidra Willis, 31, went through great pains to track down a Tiana costume for her 2-year-old daughter, Daylin. At one store, the costume was already sold out. At a another, she saw no trace of Princess Tiana. A friend was finally able to locate a costume at yet another retailer, Willis said. Good thing, because Willis was just about ready to create her own version of the outfit based on images from the movie trailer.
Disney Consumer Products representatives confirmed they have received calls from customers looking for the sold-out costumes. Sales, they said, have exceeded expectations, especially since the film has yet to be released. Willis typically doesn't celebrate Halloween, but this year, Princess Tiana was a good enough reason to start.
"I am very passionate about this particular Disney character," Willis said. "It has been 100 years in the making. I've been very disturbed because I love the concept of a princess, but they don't exist for the African-American community."
The excitement extends well beyond Halloween. Willis, like many parents of African-American girls, has taken a hard line on Disney products. She has avoided filling her daughter's toy box with too many princess products that don't reflect her image. The only other Disney-themed product she has purchased are Pull-Ups, but she has plans to scoop up more of the Tiana merchandise.
"I'm looking for Tiana dolls. I want pajamas and slippers. When I go to get her toddler bed from Toys 'R' Us, I want a Tiana bed to be there," Willis said.
If interest in Tiana merchandise is to be expected, so much early interest is less the norm. Usually, it's kids begging their moms to buy them princess this or that, but Tiana has moms all aflutter.
Nicole Nobles' 5-year-old daughter, Jaida, opted to be a cheerleader for Halloween this year (she had been a Disney princess for three years running, including Snow White and Cinderella), but Nobles can't wait to buy a Tiana doll for her daughter this holiday season.
"I refuse to put Sleeping Beauty on her bed," said Nobles, of Jonesboro. "I heard about Tiana, and I said 'Oh we are definitely going to get that one.' "
A Princess Tiana cookbook for kids, Tiana Band-Aids, a calendar, apparel and plush toys are already available for purchase online and at mass retailers. A Princess Tiana-inspired wedding gown, part of the Kirstie Kelly for Disney Fairy Tale Weddings collection, will be available this spring.
It is unusual to see so much merchandise hitting the market two months in advance of the film, said Suzanne Diamond, a marketing lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business and president of Diamond Group Ltd. The early in-store arrival of Tiana products is in part an effort to get the merchandise on shelves for holiday shopping season.
"You would normally time it for the merchandise to hit at the same time as the movie, maybe slightly before, so you can capitalize on all the excitement and extend the brand," she said. "This is fascinating because this is really driven by the moms. This is very significant to the moms and it is word of mouth."
While the $4 billion Disney Princess brand is supported by a massive marketing strategy (which should begin in a few weeks for Tiana products), the buzz already generated by blogs and other less traditional forms of advertising helped Carol's Daughter sell out of "A Magical Beauty Collection" gift sets in just seven hours online, said the company's founder, Lisa Price. Price, who collaborated with Disney on the line of shampoo, conditioner, detangler and bubble bath, said she sees similarities between Tiana's story and her own and that may be part of the appeal for women.
"I feel like this story has a story that goes beyond the film. Tiana is someone who has the support of her family and her family encourages her to live out her dreams. ... That is a beautiful lesson," Price said.
Pre-Obama America is dead. Welcome to the coronation of a new princess for a new nation, conceived in the proposition that all colored people are equal, and all white people must bow down to this decree.
Cinderella, Snow White, Bell (Beauty and the Beast) and Sleeping Beauty are so 20th century, and will one day appear in a list of most racist Disney characters - like this one - as a symbol of white people attempting to instill the archetype of beauty upon the beleaguered colored masses of the world - even though Black people love white dolls.
Stuff Black People Don't Like includes waiting nearly 100 year for a Black Disney princess, for every princess since Walt Disney conceived Mickey Mouse should have been Black, and it is an absolute joke that we had to wait until 2009 to be graced with the beauty of an obviously Octoroon princess.
When all is said and done, Black people will still probably scream that The Princess and the Frog is racist and demand another princess be drawn to raise self-esteem among young Black girls. A trailer for the film can be viewed here.
Black people love cartoons, almost as much as they love professional wrestling. Cartoons are simple to follow, contain an easy-to-digest storyline and hardly any difficult words to understand. All of that equals the perfect formula for the Black persons medium for a television show.
Black people might love cartoons, but Black people do not love The Jetsons. Produced in 1962 and 1963, when the United States was more than 90 percent white, The Jetsons depict a white family in the year 2062.
The only problem: in the future, there are no Black people. The lovable story of George Jetson, Jane his wife; his boy Elroy; and daughter Judy, unfold in a world without the deft touch of Blackness and Black people.
It is unhip, uncool and boring.. a world without rap music and where robots play sports instead of Black people and the occasional white guy. It is also a world of advanced technology, flying cars, zero pollution and, apparently without war and chaos. Crime seems to be a thing of the past and murder doesn't even happen.
Black people watch The Jetsons and see a white bread world that works efficiently; has advanced technology and a people who have mastered artificial intelligence. No longer are lower class people necessary for performing simple tasks around the house or janitorial work; Rosie the Robot is more than capable of said chore.
The future envisioned by the creators of The Jetsons is one of relative peace, without violence or murder, where technology has continued to move forward unabated and where Black people are no where to be seen.
Stuff Black People Don't Like begrudgingly includes the The Jetsons, though it might be a cartoon, it is unabashedly a cartoon that depicts what the future could have been like in the United States, without Black people fingerprints all over that blueprint.
The Jetsons offered white people a glimpse of a possible future on this continent, but they decided just like Black people, that they did not want any part of that future either.
