. The locs — or rope-like strands of hair — are formed when afro-textured hair is coiled or matted together. Celebrities such as Bob Marley, Whoopi Goldberg and Ava DuVernay have made the style more mainstream. However, even today, locs are still seen as unprofessional in school settings and in the workplace; California this week became thewho chose to wear their hair in its natural state or in styles that compliment our hair textures, like locs.
Back in 2015, the long-running E! series “Fashion Police” was forced to revamp after host Giuliana Rancic rudely commented onwhich was styled in locs; Rancic stated that her hair looked like it,"smells like patchouli oil or weed." Her comments, of course, aren't uncommon for Black people who wear their hair natural or in traditional styles to hear; the fact that, in 2019, states have to pass laws allowing us to work with our natural hair is evidence enough.
Her casting also brings an end to Disney's"Same Face Syndrome," a term coined in 2015 by Tumblr user Every Flavored Beaned in a postfor all of its female characters for the past decade. Princesses like Anna from “Frozen” and Rapunzel from “Tangled” all have round cheeks, giant round eyes, and tiny button noses, a glorification of European features and an impossible standard. Bailey, with her high cheekbones, brown skin and bright brown eyes, shatters this mold entirely.
Of course, in the midst of all of the joy and delight surrounding Bailey's casting, the racist trolls are out in full force. They even have a hashtag,. To try and suggest that a mythical creature has an assigned race is beyond preposterous, but it's also to be expected by those who have grown up with a constant parade of lily-white faces in their films and on their television screens that they’ve been able to look toward for validation.
When the animated film"The Little Mermaid" first debuted, it elevated Disney back to Hollywood's A-list after a slew of
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I don’t understand all the controversy. halleberry is an excellent actress and will crush it as Ariel! I mean she was great in Monsters Ball and John Wick 3. postracialAmerica
and I have to reveal that I initially misread this as Halle Berry and kept thinking, 'Isn't she a little old for the part now?'
Brandy, Cinderella, 1997, so, three. But it took Disney 60 YEARS to give the first Black princess. 60 FUCKING YEARS.
It's only irritating because when roles traditionally cast with people of color are cast with whites there are screams of appropriation. It needs to flow both ways to be fair. Good luck to the young lady.
She is beautiful
Like dont care that shes black, great. But really tired of all the remakes. Couldn't they have done something original and cast her in her own story? At this point people will just make comparisons
White supremacists r losing their mind over this
Just when you think AmeriKKKans can’t be any more racist, they throw a tantrum when a cartoon mermaid is not white. WhitePrivilege
So she’s black who cares
Hopefully she can sing better than Emma Watson !
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