They should be focusing on doing the stories and tales of Africa instead of changing pre existing characters. Its just lazy to do that, and shows that they dont care about diversity in a real way.

Dude, the Woman King just came out. Black Panther? Yes, there are African-oriented films being made, but insisting that Black performers must be restricted to those is segregation all over again. Seeing as how merfolk aren't real, the race of the performers is rather irrelevant.

It is more of an irk when they don't change the story of a movie when they remake, and it gets arguably worse... but hey, they changed the skin tone of a character so it must be amazing! And if you don't like it then you're a bigot.

THANK U!!! I don't see how people don't get this!

Omg i dunno who you are but i love you for this ! Especially since tiana spent half of the movie as a frog .we need more of this !!

I'm going to assume by your comment you mean any one with darker skin (not european/northern peoples). Have you heard of Tiana (princess and the frog), Moana, lilo and stitch, that one awesome head guard from frozen 2, Maui, falcon (MCU), Nick fury, James Rhodes, frozone (yea ik Sam L Jackson played him and fury, get over it), Joe Gartner, Penny proud, jasmine, Aladdin, black panther, and most of the Encanto cast

but why should Black Americans be relegated to only films about Africa? Especially as Black Americans. We lost our ties to Africa 100's of years ago. This is an American rendition of a tale that doesn't have anything to do with race. She was the best actress that auditioned and she killed it!

Wait Yasuke. Is there not an anjme series on Netflix about him?

there's an animated series about Yasuke on netflix

I have literally never met any POC who has said that. I have met some who say the opposite, actually, but tomato tomato

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so why not make stories about their history instead of taking Europeans history and inserting black characters everywhere?

The Little Mermaid was written by Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish author.

And was an alegory of himself, a gay man, suffering for being in love with a straight guy, cos they 'lived in different worlds'. Oh, and was blonde. Your point?

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Maybe, but the setting was europe based, making a dark skinned Mermaid in that location kind of silly. I wish they had gone the "princess and thecl frog" route. Then it wouldn't feel off.

Don't try to conceal your racism with geography you actual mcnugget. Don't know if you heard but segregation is illegal and segregating POC actors to just the few projects 'made for them' is disgusting.

Oh I thought inclusive meant to want other Charakters to and not force them and cats them just because. "We need a black character" which in my opinion is worse.

How about the best actress for the role? Do u think they just auditioned Black girls? Or maybe 🤔 she was the best regardless of color? Or do u think that Black people are 2nd class to every white person?? I watched the movie twice and she freaking killed it.

You do know that Europe is multicultural?

gosh everyone is so surprised when people point this out, but in the TV show, there was a black mermaid. May not be geographically correct, but it's already been done

TV show..?

And we should keep doing it

The author was also bisexual and the story was inspired by his love for a man. Maybe the little mermaid should have been a merman since some of y'all want "accuracy." No anger that she didn't turn to sea foam at the end?

Are you honestly complaining about cultural appropriation of European myths? I’m from Europe and could care less about our myths being reinvented. I’m loved seeing a black Heimdal in the Thor movies.

Because we eradicated a lot of that history when we colonized them.

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Kids that have yet to see the originals because their parents are too busy, forget, what have you. When they get older and can scrutinize things with a critical eye, they're going to hate this one. It doesn't work in the long run.

Oi you wretched hag, maybe not everyone raised their kids to get distracted by movies and we have no obligation to expose our kids to anything but kindness and respect. I'm sorry you're a bigoted donkey and can't understand that maybe our kids will be better people and not give a c**p about the originals.

Wow!!! Sounds like you need to be exposed to kindness and respect a little more yourself. 😳

Yeah right they will kindness and respect. Which, just casting some one because they are black is not nice.

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Yeah all good and all but what about the culture behind the original one?

Well, the culture is that she's a fictional being that lives in the ocean, in a fictional underwater city, with fictional "culture", so her being black, in this case, has no effect on the story whatsoever. Because it's fictional, and skin colour, in this particular piece of fiction, has absolutely no relevance. Whereas in other stories, it may do. (eg, Snow White being named because of the paleness of her skin, or Lilo and Nani being native Hawaiians which is a huge part of their story, in Ariels case, race isn't a part of the story other than that she's a mermaid)

Mermaids aren't real. There's not actually a culture behind them. It's all made up.

Why are you counter arguments about two films which nobody complains about the colour?

ok I do kind of agree with Snow White, because the whole reason she was called Snow White was to do with her skin colour, but otherwise, unless it's specifically part of the story, (like Nani in Lilo and Stitch gdi) I don't think skin colour when it comes to fictional characters is super important, compared to historical ones.

Yeah exactly! My favorite character, Godzilla, has been all kinds of colors! Usually Charcoal grey (Shodai, Showa, Heisei) , but also green (Hana Barbera), brown (Godzilla 1998), darker green (Godzilla, the series), Green with purple fins (Millenium and Vs Megaguirus), Greenish Greyish (Kiryu Series) , Black (GMK, Final Wars), Lighter grey (Monsterverse, Godzilla Ultima) , pale yellow (Kamata-Kun), red (Shinagawa Kun, Godzilla Aquatilus, and Godzilla Amphibious), and Greenish Bluish (Godzilla Earth, Godzilla Fillius, the Servum, and Godzilla Terestrius), but nobody cares, because it doesn't matter!

Impressive!

That's actually not entirely true. The original never mentions WHAT is made up of the colors white, red, and black. "The red on the white looked so beautiful that she thought to herself, "If only I had a child as white as snow, as red as blood, and as black as the wood in this frame.""

It's almost like people shouldn't hire anyone based on looks.

Then what happend at Star wars?

honestly I would love that. Time to rally for a Grimm brother's accurate non Disney Little Mermaid movie!

So much this!

Okay boomer

The design is pretty, but I was thinking more fish like and creature-y, thanks for sharing though!

I'm not good at drawing humanoids, but I'll try to make a humanoid fish creature.

Yeah, I like monsters, so It'd be very fun for me to see an accurate mermaid design.

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Egyptian would have fit better then, judging by the map, sp for me that reasoning doesn't work.

You know the original Egyptians weren't white right? They would have been anywhere from a light brown (maybe) to black.

Black? S**t need to tell all Egyptians that they are not.

There's also no reason to keep it the same. Even though the story is European there is nothing in it to suggest that the imaginary fish person that's in it had to be white. You're already taking a leap of imagination to pretend that such a creature could exist in the first place. Why is it so difficult to imagine that the creature is black?

For me personally, not saying this is what everyone thinks (because there are moron racists out there), but it's an insult to black people. It's going "this story is already made and beloved by all, so we'll just dumb down the story and make it worse than the original and throw a black person in so they can have some representation somewhere". So instead of giving them the credit they deserve and actually making a new story with new characters with new ambitions and such, they do the backhanded approach. They aren't doing this for inclusion. They're doing it to be PC, but people are seeing through the b******t now.

I read some pretty great stories and legends from parts of Africa that could make super movies, same with other cultural fairy tales. I wish they would do something with those.

In addition that would be a great way for many people to learn about different cultures. learn about their stories and heroes of the past etc.

So, how about making an original story about an original black mermaid instead?

We just wants that there are original movies about black people. And that Disney don't go the easy rout to say. We are good an totally support them

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Also the fact that she spends a lot of time in the sun

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huh? she lives underwater?

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yeah why is new black panther not a white guy? they could have easily changed it after the previous actor died. just because the name is black panther doesn't mean it has to be a black actor. sounds just as dumb to me a

it would be better if Disney would do some research into the stories of other cultures and make movies of them, but still

You are forgetting a very important fact Europe IS multicultural, and has been for centuries.

Why the heck is MomB getting downvoted? It is an imaginary being. What does Ariel being played by an African American woman do to you?

Not supporting really black people and showing them the middle finger.

You don't think there's black people in Europe? Dude, there have been black people in Europe since the Roman empire (and probably before). Like they're literally across the Mediterranean from Africa. Why are racists always so proud of their ignorance?