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psddluva4evah5/14/2015 5:39:08 pm PDT

Was reading about this today. At first I was like ooh a Sudanese Princess…yes…then I read the story and was like..um…wtf?

Disney’s Sudanese Princess Movie Will Have White Main Characters, Be Egregiously Racist

Yesterday The Hollywood Reporter wrote that screenwriter Stephany Folsom had been tapped to write Disney’s latest princess movie, a “unique princess tale inspired by the true account of an American [white] man claiming a territory in Africa and proclaiming himself and his family its royal rulers,” which, uh…where to begin?

THR went on to explain that The Princess of North Sudan will focus on

[…] an American dad whose daughter asked if she would ever be a real princess. That question set the man on a search for a region in the world that was disputed, eventually finding a territory named Bir Tawil, an area between Egypt and Sudan. In June of 2014, he flew to the area, planted a flag and, calling it the Kingdom of North Sudan, claimed it for himself and his family

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I mean it’s sorta based on a true story. From Jezebel:

Disney’s Movie About a White Princess of Sudan Is Probably a Bad Idea

Disney has a movie in the works about a white man who buys land in Sudan so that his daughter can be a princess. Interesting. Sounds cool.

In fact, The Princess of North Sudan is based on a true story. In real life, a farmer from Virginia named Jeremiah Heaton traveled through the desert to an unclaimed area bordering Egypt and Sudan, where he planted a flag and the seed for his daughter Emily’s future imaginary kingdom.

By the time Emily turned seven last year (on June 16), her dad had a literal flag up in North Sudan and declared her a (white Nubian) princess. A cool thing to do if you have the advantage of taking over some far away land…

Wow. Why do I imagine a room probably absent of non-white folk reading this story and thinking…”hell yeah…now this is gonna be a fun wholesome family film”…yeah for who??/

I mean…no one said, “um guys, I’m not too sure about this one…”