The prince is not white. He loves jazz music and is easy going and fun-loving. He’s soo laid back in life his parents cut him out of the family fortune until he learned some responsibility. He took this to mean he should find himself a sugar-momma. Hence his visit to NO (for the jazz history) to court the daughter of a wealthy white man who owned most of the city.

Tianna is a hardworking (2 jobs and no social life) determined woman. It’s her life goal to save up enough money to open a resteraunt, which was her father’s dream before he died. She is freinds with the daughter of the rich man as her mother was the girl’s seamstress and they grew up together.

Tianna teaches the prince the value of hardwork and determination and he teaches her to have a little fun. This is why they fall in love, not because of skin color or social standing or wealth.

All in all, it was a beautiful story, animated in the old disney style. There are prettier scenes in that movie than almost any other before it. My 2 year old loved it and pretended she had a frog in her hand that she was kissing. She would tell eveyone only she could kiss the frog.

There were black, white, hispanic, a good even mix of many backgrounds in the theatre with us. The common denominator was the children. And it’s a great movie for boys as well.

The only racial undertones I saw was the portrayal of some back-woods swamp dwellers. They were basically the southern version of the 3 stoodges but 10 times dumber. So your over-all idea of of white southerners based on the movie is that they are A) Materialistic and spoiled (The wealthy man and his daughter) or B) cruel and dumber than a box of rocks

I’m married to a latino man and so I’m partial to showing mixed couples. But I’m the white side of that equasion so you can take my perspective or leave it.

The real fight, IMO, should be instead of trying to make people accept other races, eliminate the old notion of race. Otherwise we’ll just keep analyzing every single commercial, movie, cartoon and article trying to decide whether it’s acceptable to every single racial group they define. To kill racism we must understand that the only race is the human race, even though some of us have blue eyes, brown eyes, light hair or dark skin.

No matter what they did someone would complain. You can’t please everyone.

I think they’ve done a good job

And as a black mother with a black 5-year old daughter, it isn’t just a movie. Especially when your little girl wants to have ‘princess hair’ that ‘lays down’, who has school friends who play the ‘let’s run away from you because you have dark skin’ game. If grown women can complain that Vogue and Elle hold women to different standards, that we grown women feel less than beautiful sometimes because we cannot emulate all that we see in glossy magazines, the same would hold for little black girls who watch Ariel and Cinderella and Belle ad-freakin’ nauseum.

Nothing’s ever just anything. Especially when Disney will be raking in lots of dough. On a good note: thank Cheesus we’ll have a black princess (other than my daughter) in the house.

America already has a black prince and princess and they are much better than anything disney will ever do :D

I agree that most of the time disney is racist and sexist
BUT
I think this time they’ve done it quite well!

I mean, to date, we are used to seeing white-white couples, black-black, asian-asian, etc
but we rarely get to see black-white, asian-white, etc
hale berry and her gourgeos husband are the exception!

there is MULTICULTURALITY but NO INTERCULTURALITY

so it is a bold choice to hava a white price choose a black pricess, my props to disney!!

It’s based on the Epic of Sundiata, who was called the Lion King of Mali. As far as I know, the stories are part history, part fantasy/legend.