Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-38350502-20190706213403

I'm sure Halle Baily will do an okay job as Ariel, but my problem is that this is just a pandering in the form of tokenism, and I find this to very insulting and its been going on in these coporations for awhile now.

I've seen people use the excuse "She's a fictional character, so it doesn't matter" that isn't a very valid argument, because if they were to change Blade or Black Panther into a white character, people will say "race is a part of that character." So that prove it has nothing to do with being a fictional character, all your doing is moving focal point or the goal post that will benefit your side, without consider the overall problem.

Its esstentially a Hand me down and people become so protective when things like this happens; Classical white character gets change to black "just a fictional character, race isn't part of the character who cares", but then becomes the reverse and then race does matter for that character. So there is pretty much no consistency.

So overall, it just becomes this game of manipulation by hollywood, saying that they care diversity and more reprenstation. When in reality its tokenism and its pandering towards a specific audience with turning Ariel Black and this is just them throwing free candy to folk who think that this is a step in the right direction.

They can simply make a new original black princess or just develop new original black leads, but why take time building a new character up, when they can just give us a Hand-me-down. How can I be a self-hating black person when I want to see more original black characters?