Opinion | Aramide A. Tinubu: Halle Bailey is only the second Black Disney princess, but real magic to some girls
. The locs — or rope-like strands of hair — are formed when afro-textured hair is coiled or matted together. Celebrities such as Bob Marley, Whoopi Goldberg and Ava DuVernay have made the style more mainstream. However, even today, locs are still seen as unprofessional in school settings and in the workplace; California this week became thewho chose to wear their hair in its natural state or in styles that compliment our hair textures, like locs.
Back in 2015, the long-running E! series “Fashion Police” was forced to revamp after host Giuliana Rancic rudely commented onwhich was styled in locs; Rancic stated that her hair looked like it,"smells like patchouli oil or weed." Her comments, of course, aren't uncommon for Black people who wear their hair natural or in traditional styles to hear; the fact that, in 2019, states have to pass laws allowing us to work with our natural hair is evidence enough.
Her casting also brings an end to Disney's"Same Face Syndrome," a term coined in 2015 by Tumblr user Every Flavored Beaned in a postfor all of its female characters for the past decade. Princesses like Anna from “Frozen” and Rapunzel from “Tangled” all have round cheeks, giant round eyes, and tiny button noses, a glorification of European features and an impossible standard. Bailey, with her high cheekbones, brown skin and bright brown eyes, shatters this mold entirely.
Of course, in the midst of all of the joy and delight surrounding Bailey's casting, the racist trolls are out in full force. They even have a hashtag,. To try and suggest that a mythical creature has an assigned race is beyond preposterous, but it's also to be expected by those who have grown up with a constant parade of lily-white faces in their films and on their television screens that they’ve been able to look toward for validation.
When the animated film"The Little Mermaid" first debuted, it elevated Disney back to Hollywood's A-list after a slew of
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