Stop the presses! Disney is going back to the basics and making a traditional (non-CGI) cartoon musical movie called The Princess and the Frog. And the big news is that, for the first time in Disney Animation Studio's 72 year history, the princess is will be black! Awesome, right? We thought so, but it seems a lot of people are pissed off that they decided to make her Prince white.
Well, we can't say we didn't see this coming. Even with a half black/half white President, Hollywood is still Hollywood and some things just never change. It seems like the only way that a black actress can get cast in a major mainstream role is if their leading man is white. Don't believe us? Take a look back at some notable black woman x white man collabos on the big screen...
SOUL MAN (1986)
C. Thomas Howell & Rae Dawn Chong
• Nevermind the black face or the affirmative action bashing'there's one thing that we couldn't understand about this horribly offensive '80s flick. When they were getting busy, didn't his girl notice that he was Off The Wall MJ up top and Dangerous MJ down low?
A BRONX TALE (1993)
Lillo Brancato & Taral Hicks
• Our theory: the only reason Taral got the role of Brancato's love interest is director Bobby DeNiro's well-documented love of black women.
GUESS WHO (2005)
Aston Kutcher & Zoe Saldana
• Guess who's coming to dinner? One of the corniest white men on the planet. Poor Zoe, this should have been an episode of Punk'd.
MALIBU'S MOST WANTED (2003)
Jamie Kennedy & Regina Hall
• The second most offensive movie on this list (right behind Soul Man). Jamie Kennedy FAIL.
MONSTERS BALL (2001)
Billy Bob Thorton & Halle Berry
• If Halle wasn't so goddamn bad, we would have never forgiven her for getting savaged by Billy Bob. Could you imagine a movie where Denzel gets his Mr. Marcus on with Scarlett Johansson? Well, we can definitely imagine it, but Hollywood would never let it happen.
LAKEVIEW TERRACE (2008)
Patrick Wilson & Kerry Washington
• We were gonna get mad about this one... but then we saw that in the movie, Wilson blows ganja while listening to Public Enemy, stands up to his girl's father and then kills a cop. Go 'head, playboy!
ZEBRAHEAD (1992)
Michael Rapaport & N'Bushe Wright
• A big racial fight explodes in a Detriot high school, all because Wright chooses the white kid over the black gangster. Kinda like Save The Last Dance with balls.
SOMETHING NEW (2006)
Simon Baker & Sanaa Lathan
• Sorry, but there's no way a woman who looks like Sanaa Lathan couldn't find a black guy to treat her right. Dude from The Mentalist must have tricked her into this somehow.
MADE IN AMERICA (1993)
Ted Danson & Whoopi Goldberg
• Whoopi falls in love with her sperm donor, who just happens to be white. No love lost'we're not sure who else would hit her off but Ted Danson. Maybe Stevie Wonder. Ouch.
STRANGE DAYS (1995)
Ralph Fiennes & Angela Bassett
• A white cop tries to solve the murder of his prostitute "friend". But this ain't no Pretty Woman shit. Remember, in Hollywood, a prostitute is only a prostitute if they're black.
BOILER ROOM (2000)
Giovannni Ribisi & Nia Long
• We gave a big SMH to Nia Long for this one. Out of all the white guys she could let hit, she choose the one working for an incorporated Ponzi scheme that got the feds after him? So it's alright for black girls to date criminals as long as they're white? GTFOH.
THE BODYGUARD (1992)
Kevin Coster & Whitney Houston
• Alright, okay...if a dude saves your life, you do kinda owe him a li'l somethin', somethin'. No?
TV BONUS!
STAR TREK (1968)
William Shatner & Nichelle Nichols
• We can't blame Nichelle for getting at James T. Kirk. After all, he was the captain. And it's not like there were any other black people on the Starship.
Veezy March 20th, 2009 at 07:57 PM
the prince is indian, i dont know why all the blogs say he's white!? Naveen is clearly not a black name i would think. It's a punjabi name..
ss February 15th, 2010 at 07:00 AM
lol yeah i noe it should be obvious with the accent, the names, the saris....idiots
aalqadaffi March 20th, 2009 at 10:32 PM
Spock wasn't the captain, Kirk was.
Newborn Rodeo March 21st, 2009 at 02:07 AM
hahahaha. amazing. hilarious. all that.
mike March 21st, 2009 at 08:18 AM
whoops guys, kirk is the captain. other than that, fantastic article showing us some more of hollywood's racial BS.
soleman23 March 22nd, 2009 at 03:25 AM
You are right Veezy. But you are missing the point on this article. Let me ask you why the prince has lighter skin than the princess? Why can't he have same or darker skin tone, if they were from same region? Seems like lighter skin is easy to work with camera than dark skin, right?
nation March 22nd, 2009 at 02:58 PM
25th Hour she snitched, he was going up north...
Mister March 22nd, 2009 at 03:23 PM
hollywood is just showing the world what their real fantasies are! You know, the blacker the berry... the reason its that difficult to find examples of virile, studly leading black man winning the affection of a scarjo is because that my friends is hollywood's biggest fear!
Ganja Skateboard July 2nd, 2009 at 10:38 PM
Interesting..
Toni2real September 2nd, 2009 at 11:01 AM
he is CREOLE!! the movie is set in louisianna... he is a CREOLE (which is just as offensive to me since they like to be thought of as better than blacks *get a clue, whites don't accept ur azz either*)
timbalendgirl January 15th, 2010 at 02:34 PM
Im a little tired of seeing the white male/ ethnic female paring, being constantly rehearsed in hollywoods films. there not the only form of interracial couple in the world and hollywood exploites it like its the only form of interracial couple that should be! while blasting couple's with a ethnic male/ caucasian female paring . A little diverse in the story telling and showing that there is more to the phrase interracial couple then a white man and his ethnic woman!