Do u think its ok to have a "Black" girl playing the Little Mermaid ? 🐠 🐟

Her name is Halle Bailey, sister of Chloe Bailey from the tv show Grownish. Now I'm gonna be honest with you people here. As a person of color, I felt like she should have turned this role down. Why ? Because The Little Mermaid just so happens to be, White. Just like Black Lightning, is actually Black. He is a comic book character. But anyway, this is just a good example of politics. That ugly evil thing that is used to divide and conquer people. What do you think ?
Should there be a Black girl playing the Little Mermaid. They could have just made an original version of a mermaid film so that is wouldn't cause so much friction for certain people. Right. You tell me. I'm listening.
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Whodunnit · M

I think the simplest way to look at it is like this.

Would people from other cultures be happy if the characters from their own traditional stories, myths, and legends were to be race swapped for no apparent good reason?

I think the answer to that would be a resounding no.

In an effort to 'do better' and not repeat the mistakes of the past (John Wayne as Ghengis Khan for example) I think we may be straying too far in the other direction. Perhaps this is a form of appeasement, white guilt, race-baiting, or just good old fashioned laziness. I'm really not sure.

Yes, these days the West is by and large a multi-cultural society, but rather than explore and bring to the silver screen examples of the folklore of those cultures it appears that certain people and organisations would rather copy and paste todays societal structures onto (what is largely) European fantasy whether or not it makes any sense given their setting.

Of course... this could all just be a plot to eradicate redheads from society 🤔