My Other World Is Just A Half A Mile Away...

It's about fuckin' time.

Meet Maddy - Disney's first black princess. No, Not Belle (beautiful) Not Esmeralda or even Cinderella, but Maddy - as in madness. This is the story of the Frog Prince, only told from the woman's point of view. (If you aren't familiar with the story - go get your own Cliff Notes.)

What took so long, you ask? Well, it is an interesting question, being that Disney babes range from Indian (Jazmine in Aladin) to Native American (Pocahontas) Hell, they even had a Mermaid, for God's sake. (Ariel from The Little Mermaid) Wait! Then the Chinese got in on the action, (Mulan) The rest were just bitch WASPS (Belle, from Beauty and The Beast, Aurora from Sleeping Beauty... and who could forget that co-habitating whore, Snow White?

Why has it taken until a new millenium for a Black to be immortalized as a princess?

Some say it just NOW economically viable to show a stong black person.

Uh, that's as Dopey as one of the 7 Dwarves.

It could mean nothing more than the idiots who buy movie tickets would not pay to see a princess of color. Now what we have a "Clean" educated black presidential candidate, Disney is afraid to look "so 20th century". (You thought I was gonna bring up Condosleeza Rice, didn't you?)

Not even close.

What about Cleopatra? Normally portrayed as white, she was a black woman. Likewise, you might classify Queen Nefertiti as a strong lady. Makeda, better know as the Queen Of Sheba, knew how to keep her men in line. But that history gets lost on us.

I just hope that Disney makes Maddy real, and not some ethnic cliche. I hope she doesn't run around New Orleans in the movie shouting, "Girrrl, stay away from my frog!" Bobbing her head rythmically to the hip-hop soundtrack.