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Out with the whites and in with the blacks. That seems to be Hollywood’s motto these days. The Little Mermaid is the latest switcheroo, with a black mermaid as Ariel. The character in the Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale has always been white, and he described her as having “eyes as blue as the deepest sea.”

But the author’s intentions don’t matter because “It’s time to let racially diverse casting be part of your world.”

A lot of people don’t think it’s time for that. When the trailer for the movie appeared on Youtube, it racked up more than two million thumbs down in just two days, so YouTube disabled the “dislike” counter. This week the trailer had 63 thousand likes and not a single thumbs down.

Why don’t people like the new, black Ariel?

Many articles have popped up to explain this “ridiculous backlash.”

Do you have any idea what the problem is? “Racism, plain and simple,” says this article. Not that complicated kind of racism. Plain and simple racism.

The Washington Post explained that “white nostalgia is fueling the ‘Little Mermaid’ backlash,” and even dragged in the second most evil man in human history after Adolph Hitler.

The backlash is “part of the wave of white nostalgia that Donald Trump used to win the presidency by appealing to white, working-class Americans who feel marginalized by the country’s growing diversity.”

The Post can use even a mermaid to attack Donald Trump.

And then the paper thought it landed a real haymaker with an article called “Africa celebrated black mermaids long before Disney and #NotMyAriel.”

It claims Africans have worshipped a black water spirit called Mami Wata for 600 years. The Post forgot to mention that Mami Wata is pidgin English for Mommy Water, and anything African with an English name is not 600 years old.

Mami Wata can charm snakes, is supposed to be very sexy, and often walks around on legs seducing men.

What was that hashtag? #NotMyAriel? The Post doesn’t explain how Mami Wata justifies turning Ariel black.

It was the Disney movie’s director, Robert Marshall, who made the decision.

He hasn’t explained it publicly, but we do learn from Wikipedia that “As of at least 2007, Marshall lives in New York City with his partner, producer John DeLuca.”

Ariel is not alone. J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth now has plenty of important black characters.

and if you don’t like it you are part of the “racist backlash.”

None of this is new. There was an idiotic streaming series set in 12-century Iceland that had an Afro-Viking queen.

Bess of Hardwick was a prominent 16th century Englishwoman, but she turned into an Asian when BBC put her in the movie version.

Lord Thomas Randolph, who served Queen Elizabeth I, showed up with an afro.

A recent Netflix period drama called Bridgerton – which is admittedly fiction – has a thoroughly fictional cast.

The cliché “racist” response is to say, no one would dare take a non-white character and turn him white. Well, you racists are wrong. There is a play about Martin Luther King’s last night on earth called The Mountain Top. It’s written by a black woman named Katori Hall.

I suspect it leaves out the two adulterous trysts he had that night.

But look at this: “The Kent State Pan-African studies department will be premiering “The Mountain Top.”

That’s MLK, folks. A white man!

It was a six-performance amateur production. The white played King for three performances and a black played him for the other three. Michael Oatman, the Kent State prof who cast the play, explained that it was “a true exploration of King’s wish that we all be judged by the content of our character and not the color of our skin.”

What an idea! Mr. Oatman is black, of course.

No white man would dare try that, but protective coloring didn’t work: “Playwright outraged after white actor cast as Martin Luther King.”

Katori Hall said it was “yet another erasure of the black body,” that she felt “rage,” and that on stage, “our black bodies must stand unaltered . . so that our skin, like King’s, can reflect back our humanity.”

White bodies can be altered, though, I guess because our skin reflects back our inhumanity. Katori Hall thinks shows like Hamilton, where blacks play whites, are fine.

Another switcheroo opens next month, with an old DC Comics villain called Black Adam.

He’s the arch enemy of the good guys, Captain Marvel and Superman.

Now, it’s not just his clothes that are black. He’s an Afro-Samoan, and he’s got his own feature film, in which he is the superhero.

There’s a completely different level of phoniness in The Woman King, which seems to happen when you have a black screen writer and a black director. The movie is about the Agoji, an all-women military unit that fought for the King of Dahomey in West Africa in the 19th century. A few survived into the age of photography.

In the movie, they fight to abolish slavery, whereas the historical Dahomey was one of the most aggressive slave-catching kingdoms in all of Africa. It made war all up and down to coast, hunting slaves for human sacrifice and to sell. So this is like a movie about the War in the Pacific, in which the fighting begins with a sneak American A-bomb attack on Tokyo.

The very name, The Woman King is phony. The main character isn’t a king; she’s just the head Agoji, and all Agoji were minor wives of the king.

Dahomey started using women soldiers because it had fought so many slave-hunting wars it had a shortage of men. The real Agoji mostly operated at night, and sneaked up on enemies and cut off their heads. The movie-Agoji are superwomen who slaughter men – black and white – in open battle

Dahomey fought a five-month war against the French in 1892. About 14 percent of the Dahomey army were Agoji.

They were armed with modern German rifles, as you can see in this image, and they fought in dresses, not the movie getup.

The French slaughtered them.

An estimated two to four thousand Dahomey soldiers died in the war. The French lost 52 whites and 33 Africans.

But the facts don’t matter to director Gina Prince-Bythewood, who wept for joy when she read the script.

As she explained in this New York Times article, “[T]he story was entrenched in truth. . . .”

“[P]eople can now learn that this doesn’t have to be a fantasy, that we really were these women.”

According to this article, 59 percent of the audience so far has been black, so I guess they think they really were these women.

Later this year there will be a sequel to Black Panther, and I don’t think any of the Wackandans will be played by white people – or by anyone else.

What’s the thinking behind this? That race is a social construct? Hardly. It’s elimination of white people, even from our own history – and our own fairy tales – while blacks glory in a heroic, all-black fantasy past and an all-black high-tech fantasy future. If that is supposed to boost their self-esteem and make them stop shooting each other – and us – it’s not working.

Or is it supposed to demoralize whites? Make us think we were bit players in history and have a meager future? Judging from television ads, in which all the couples are now mixed-race, it looks like we are supposed to miscegenate ourselves into extinction and have no future at all.

Black people are posting videos of their children bursting with happiness when they see the trailer for The Little Mermaid. “She’s black like me.”

What about the little white girls who say, “Daddy, that’s not Ariel.” Who cares about them? They can’t have their own stories.

This is all part of the sick and sickening adoration for blacks and loathing for whites we see everywhere. The good news is you don’t have to watch this trash. Read The Little Mermaid. It’s a beautiful, poignant story. Disney didn’t make a movie about Mami Wata because there’s no beauty or poignancy. We still have the beautiful things our people made. And we will make more.

(Republished from American Renaissance by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. With niggers and jews, you lose.
    Both piles of shit need to be all gone, terminally.

    • Agree: Pop Warner
  2. Katrinka says:

    Don’t buy their products. Don’t watch their idiotic movies. Turn off the Talmudvision. They can’t survive with only a small percentage of the population as customers. Oh, and by the way, the largest entertainment market in the world is China. The Chinese want nothing to do with blacks in their entertainment. The Chinese want to see White actors and entertainers.

  3. Most superhero comics were written by jews and pushed degenerate causes like civil rights and racemixing, so honestly I’m happy that modern pedowood is destroying those franchises. It’s time to stop worshiping this subversive trash

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
  4. Zimriel says:

    “The Little Mermaid” was always an analogy for the homosexual “Closet”. I don’t care if they black this one since it’s arguable whether Andersen ever should have cast a female in the first place.

    • Disagree: Inverness
  5. @Katrinka

    There’s an actual paper (which, sadly, I couldn’t locate it) which argues (something to the effect): “Chinese influence makes Hollywood not cast as many Blacks as wanted”.

  6. XBardon Kaldlan [AKA "Bardon Kaldlan"] says:

    The Jews do this to set off whites,so they can scream,” rayyyyyyciss!”
    The Jews used a mullatta,the confusingly named Halle Bailey,whose father is white, be cause a full blood black would be too ugly for the movie.

  7. Realist says:

    Mr. Taylor, excellent points.

  8. Phibbs says:

    And which (vile, demonic) race of people own Hollywood, Disney and the media, Mr. Taylor?

    • LOL: Joe Paluka
    • Replies: @anonymouseperson
  9. That sure was a lot of pictures of negroes to tell us what we already know. If aliens have been watching our television for the past 60 or 70 years, they would come to the conclusion that our nice orderly white planet had been invaded sometime in the 1980’s and had been turned almost instantly into a planet of the apes.

    • Agree: Realist
  10. @Katrinka

    I would think that Chinese want to see Chinese actors primarily on television and movies but when something comes from the US or Europe, they expect to see white people.

    • Replies: @Mary Marianne
  11. the ultimate souurce of all this media niggering is, of course,

    lost on JT. Here’s some news JT can use:

    it’s the Jews.

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
  12. Pastit says:

    The continued race to eliminste and disparage Eurocentric history. The best approach is to avoid these shows.

  13. I suggest the following casting:

    Superman = Snoop Dog

    Marilyn Monroe = Lizzo

    George Wallace = George Wallace (comedian)

    HRH King Charles III = George Lopez

    President Nixon = Coolio

    • Replies: @Solutions
  14. Rahan says:
    @Katrinka

    Turn off the Talmudvision.

    Tel-Avision

  15. Truth says:

    Let me see if I am understanding this correctly:

    You have been induced to miscarriage over what you consider the inauthentic racial casting of a character that is…

    A fish from the waist down?

    • LOL: Realist
    • Replies: @Kim
  16. Kim says:
    @Truth

    My personal objection is to being continally confronted with niggers. Others may have different reasons.

    • Agree: anonymouseperson
    • Replies: @Truth
  17. “Degenerate Weirdo Defiles Priceless Historical Artifact”

    Video Link

    • Replies: @Kim
  18. Kim says:
    @loner feral cat

    James Madison was a president of the American Colonization Society, which sought to send blacks back to Africa.

    https://www.amren.com/commentary/2021/08/james-madison-and-the-american-colonization-society/

    Seeing this, who could blame him?

    • Agree: Pastit
    • Replies: @loner feral cat
  19. Truth says:
    @Kim

    You chose to have a television in your living room, there, Dong-Hyun; nobody forced you.

  20. Bo Bo says:

    “This is all part of the sick and sickening adoration for blacks and loathing for whites we see everywhere. The good news is you don’t have to watch this trash.”

    I stopped watching the politically correct “trash” on American TV about a year ago. I watch primarily Korean dramas on either Netflix or Rakutin Viki. The Korean TV shows and movies are made to appeal to their indigenous population. For me, they are fun and relaxing to watch. You rarely see a white person or black person or any other of the perversions as seen on American TV. If you have Netflix and/or Rakutin Viki channel you can get the Korean shows with English subtitles. I am not running an advertisement for Korean TV-just trying to help out those out there who are sick and tired of the trash, trash, trash on American TV.

    • Replies: @tiger_road
  21. @Kim

    It got me thinking about engineering design requirements more than anything else, with 
    toilets in particular, and other basics as well.

  22. @Phibbs

    I will say it, the Amish.

    • LOL: Inverness
    • Replies: @Truth
  23. XBardon Kaldlan [AKA "Bardon Kaldlan"] says:

    The truthis,they had to use a mixed race girl,because nobody,aside from blacks,is going to pay to see some young ghetto princess on the big screen.
    But Bailey is still ugly.

    • Replies: @Reg Cæsar
    , @Truth
  24. @XBardon Kaldlan

    Ariel isn’t mixed-race. She’s mixed-species. Mixed-clade. Mixed-class.

  25. Truth says:
    @XBardon Kaldlan

    Mixed race boy, as is every white person whom you lust after, who plays a woman on TV.

  26. @Bo Bo

    Same here. Also, if you do you don’t mind unsophisticated and silly plots watch latam tv shows, they avoid blacks and aim for a all caucasian cast.

  27. Truth says:
    @anonymouseperson

    Wrong again!

    Everyone knows it’s the Quakers.

  28. I am sure that the Whites still have enough money to put together a few productions; if they have the guts, then there is a solution: make an Old Testament movie, with prominent characters played by Black peoples.

  29. Sigh. Wypipo gonna wypipo.

  30. Dumbo says:

    People are not complaining about Andersen’s story, which is indeed beautiful and poignant but few have read [and there the mermaid is blonde and not ginger]. People are complaining because their idea of Ariel came from Disney’s cartoon, which, despite having a ginger half-fish creature, was already “woke” for its time. (I think most people believe Disney created that story, just as they believe they created “Pinocchio” or “Snow White” — Well, they really can claim credit for “Frozen”, as it has absolutely nothing to do with “”The Snow Queen” except extremely vague references)

    Personally, I don’t care about Black Ariel because I wouldn’t watch it anyway, but historical films with weird racial representation bother me a bit.

    But progressives are not content with pushing race on cartoons and children’s movies, they want to push homosexuality and transgenderism too. Now there’s a new Scooby Doo cartoon where Velma is lesbian, and in Peppa Pig a new character has “two moms”.

    • Replies: @Wokechoke
  31. Wokechoke says:
    @Dumbo

    In theory all all black MacBeth could be interesting. Dress em as Zulus or as 70s guerillas or as ghetto gremlins. But to do this? Don’t blacks have their own characters? they really don’t.

  32. Hrw-500 says:

    I wonder how high the blood pressure of TPTB will go if we suggest then Anne Frank should be performed by a black girl for a new movie version of the Diary of Anne Frank? https://voxday.net/2022/09/06/amazons-diary-of-anne-frank/

    In case if it’s deleted, it’s now archived on Archive.today, Wayback Machine and Ghostarchive.
    https://archive.ph/CmXwe
    https://ghostarchive.org/archive/zVhY3
    https://web.archive.org/web/20220906222748/https://voxday.net/2022/09/06/amazons-diary-of-anne-frank/

  33. @Joe Paluka

    It’s only logical is it not?

    When I want to see Chinese stories, I watch Chinese movies or dramas. When I want to see Korean stories, I watch K-drama. When I want to see Japanese stories, I grab Japanese anime (as I find them more entertaining than Japanese movies or dramas). When I’m interested in Indian stories I watch Bollywood. I haven’t seen any Nollywood yet, but that’ll be my first go-to place when I’m interested in black African stories.

    I used to watch Hollywood movies and TV series for American stories, but lately there’s been zero depth to the characters in Hollywood. They don’t act like people, but rather like mouthpieces to whatever ideology the director wants to convey (which is generally woke). The characters generally behave like either cold-blooded, soulless cardboard figures, zombies (when they’re not part of zombie movies), or complete sociopaths or psychopaths (despite supposedly being the hero or a sympathetic figure of the story), and the actors of these characters never seem capable of nailing down a genuine relationship — whether that is a love relationship, a friendship, or a familial relationship — but perhaps that’s the fault of either the director or the screenwriter. There’s zero historical or cultural depth to Hollywood movies either. In short, it’s no longer fun to watch Hollywood, so I stopped watching most of the new movies coming out. The last Hollywood franchise that I was completely absorbed into was the Marvel verse, but that began to taper off around Civil War and it’s completely petered out after Spiderman: No Way Home. I haven’t seen anything coming out of Hollywood as of late that I really want to watch, so I stopped watching.

    • Replies: @JrNeymar
  34. JrNeymar says:
    @Mary Marianne

    I am a big fan of K-Drama and most especially the crime shows. As a bonus the Koreans are an attractive people.
    When State Farm replaced Jake with a hyper marinated person I knew that the slope was slippery and we here heading to Americongo. I went to see the marvelous John Wick 4 this week and the trailers preceding the .live featured a Zulu Little Mermaid and a Bantu Spiderman. I recall Little Orphan Annie had become a pickinninny.
    Is nothing sacred? Oh, fyi the next Pope will be a Tutsi.
    I believe that the U.S. Government still offers free one way passage to Liberia.

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