Jack & Jill Politics

Yes, he does look like Rick Fox.

Do you think that is Nia Long on his arm?

Sure, he could be black. But, come on! Look at the difference in skin tone alone between the princess and the prince. Look at his hair!

Yes, I'm fully aware that people of the African Diaspora vary in complexion and hair texture. However, I think there's something else at play here… this is supposedly Disney's first animated feature with a black princess – an obviously black princess, if we're taking strictly surface representation. I don't think they were ready to go all the way and make the prince obviously dark as well. Baby steps I guess…

This has long been an issue in Hollywood flicks, and it's funny that the same rule apparently applies even in cartoons! We can't pair up 2 dark-skinned people in the same movie, because it might automatically alienate a certain group of the film's potential audience – read, white people. So, just as we do with live action pictures, in order to guarantee rich box office returns, we'll cast a black woman/man, with a white man/woman, in a love story.

How often do we get to see love stories on screen featuring 2 obviously black people in the starring roles?

Well you know, they can't have TWO dark-skinned Black people, who would want to see that?? *sarcasm*

I agree with Predacious, they were probably inspired by the Obamas when they created these characters lol.

The prince could pass for being either Black or Latino actually lol.

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He's voiced by a Brazilian guy, so I'm thinking either Latino or fair-looking brother.

They did the same thing with Brandy Norwood who played Cinderella (live action) with Whitney Houston as the fairy godmother. The Prince was Filipino, with Whoopi as his mom, and his dad as a white guy…I think it was Matthew Garber.

Honestly, though, folks oughta take a pill…it's the OTHER trailer from this film that really sucks. Some mosquito or roach looks like a crackhead with teeth problems.

And on the other side, The Mouse House needs some effing help marketing to people of color, I swear.

I never saw Brandy's Cinderella, but the thought of Whoopi Goldberg and some unknown white guy breeding a Filipino just turned my stomach upside down.

I have a friend who is half-black and half-filipino. You know what he calls himself? N*ggapino.

EVENING THREAD IS UP

Didn't Jamie Foxx say that Rick Fox looked like he was in the Taliban?

LMAO!! Jamie is a fool.

Shoot, Boriquas and Dominicans are black as far as I'm concerned. They lack for nothing physically…Loves them too.

You'll missed Twitches, didn't ya? The Mowry Twins were the Princess's exiled to Earth, Mom, the Queen was Kristen Wilson-why isn't she on the Great Wall of Sexy. Alas, Dad was white but not on stage much.
As to the Prince in the cartoon could be anybody. Hmm…Bobby Jindal on steroids?

thats an interesting choice for the prince and i think it was intentional, we are talking about disney here!….i hate that stuff like this brings up the whole light skin vs dark skin thing in our community but i must say that it is a beautiful thing that we come in all shades of black and brown…i luv all my brothas and sistas light skin or dark and issues like that usually are really divisive

my first reaction was that Disney was obviously trying to pawn the sister off to a white boy, and not happy about it, given Disney's dubious racial history, but then I looked at the picture of my parents, which looks exactly like the picture from Disney, except that my dad's hair is nappier than (generic) yours, and my mom's is the curly one (go figure), so i don't know what to think ….

How about Will Smith and Rosario Dawson in 7-Pounds? There you go.

I like it. It's a nice change. He looks Latino.

How come a male can only be “genuinely” black if he's extremely dark in complexion? And she can be almost white / mixed and given the benefit of blackness? I think almost every bit of media has the black guy dark and crispy like Michael Jordan / Taye Diggs, and the women so light and near-white – like an Angelina Jolie with tan makeup on.

There's never any real variety. I can count on my fingers the number of light skinned black guys, and dark skinned black women I see in the entertainment media.

Whatever he is, he looks like an arrogant jackass. I'll bet the poor little black princess had to fight him for the mirror.