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Wonderful World of Racist Throughout the course of eighty years Walt Disney has made a lot of movies. In these movies you have characters that dance, sing, and do things that normal people could not do. Their movies have been very profitable over the years; however, these movies have faced some serious issues. Walt Disney Movies even from the start seem to always have some sort of issue with race. Walter Elias “Walt” Disney is the of the founder of The Walt Disney Company. He started off writing short little stories that could be ran in television and movie theaters. Some of these short stories were little pieces of “perceptions of reality and constructing a normative “vision” of the world” (Tavin 21). Mr. Disney always seemed …show more content…

Does Charlotte fit that description? No, she does not fit that description because in the movie is a spoil little brat that gets whatever she wants from her father. The only reason why she is a princess in the movie is because her father is the “King” of the Mardi Gras parade. Tiana character role in the movie and how she became a princess is a major reason why so many people are against Disney and the making of this movie. Gregory stated that “Tiana is cast as unlikely princess: a young black woman living in segregated black New Orleans” (442). This mostly because of the time period and the location the movie was made in. Tiana is a very different type of princess because of how she became one. She has all the characterizes of being a princess, however she was not considered a princess till the very end. The only reason she is a princess is because she married a …show more content…

What else could they have changed to allow it to be a less racist movie? For one, the time period and the location of the movie could have been changed. After all the movies Disney has done, why couldn’t they have not come up with a fairy tale location and time that would be suitable for a story like this? They do with a most of their other movies anyway, so why didn’t they? It’s the point that Disney is trying to get across is that they cannot write people of different color in their stories without going to a race issue. However, if Disney would have started out with a more diverse color of people they would not have these issues they have today with their audiences. It’s just Disney started out on the values and they still continue to do to it this day. So with all of this why did they just do so differently? It was because their audience wanted that diversity of color, so Disney produced it and what did we

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