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Racism and the live-action Little Mermaid

When Disney announced they would be casting actress Halle Bailey in 2019 for the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, social media erupted at the casting of a black woman to play Ariel.  

Rather than accepting a talented actress, the hostile response by many in the Twitterverse revealed the role race plays in the original animated film. Apparently, for Ariel to be part of some viewer's world, she needed to be white (Fernández 2020).

Here are a few Tweets from that uproar. 

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