'Above all else, these videos demonstrate that representation matters—it is important for young Black girls to see themselves represented in the shows they watch.'
“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction,” she once cautioned. “It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do… Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.
The nostalgia driving the desire for Disney to remain true to its 1989 animated portrayal of a white, red-haired Ariel is a bit disingenuous in its arguments for authenticity, given the ways that Disney’s film altered the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
The heroics in the tale concern the little mermaid being offered a chance to return to the sea to her family and to get her tongue back, if she would only pierce a sword through the heart of her beloved. She chooses instead to spare his life, and so she fades away from existence into sea foam. In some versions of the story, the little mermaid gains a soul for her altruistic deed and ascends into heaven as an angel.
Given the cultures of the Caribbean—not just in the proliferation of water spirits from Vodou, Santeria, and Lucumí but also in the sea-faring adventures of pirates, sailors, merchants and explorers like Christopher Columbus, whoof seeing three mermaids off the coast of Haiti in 1493—the mermaid is a convenient framework for cultural fantasy.
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