ORLANDO, Fla. — A new attraction starring the first Black Disney princess is opening at the company’s U.S. theme park resorts, and some Disney followers see it as a fitting replacement to a former ...
Disney to replace controversial Splash Mountain ride with an attraction for its first Black princess
The water ride had been themed to ‘Song of the South,’ a 1946 Disney movie filled with racist cliches about African Americans and plantation life. Actors dressed as Princess Tiana and Prince Naveen ...
Now it’s gone, and we don’t have to wonder what it means to have a Song of the South ride at Disney parks anymore. But since Disney won’t explicitly say why it replaced Splash Mountain, we have to ...
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