Racial Issues Behing Cinderella?

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Veronica Chambers’, “The Myth of Cinderella”, is yet another perfect example of someone who is out to look for racial issues. This is Cinderella we’re talking about. It is a children’s movie, a children’s movie that happens to be every adult woman’s lifelong fantasy. To be swept off your feet by Prince Charming. Prince Charming? What is that? He is our example of the perfect husband. Precisely that, an example. Cinderella isn’t a movie about rich white people, it is a movie personifying the modern woman’s fantasy. The actor’s in the movie are just that, actors. It doesn’t matter if they are white, black, green, Hispanic, Asian, etc., it is a fantasy. It doesn’t matter what race the actor is, they are just acting.

In Ms. Chamber’s view on Brandy’s casting in Cinderella, she quotes Denene Millner, author of The Sistahs’ Rules, saying, “I want him (her five-year old step-son) to know he can be somebody’s Prince Charming”. (and as he should, but I bet you that focusing on the racial issues in Cinderella isn’t doing anything but reinforcing that idea into his head) She then goes into saying that black women feel that black men have done them wrong, well, sorry to break it to you sister, but white men aren’t too much better. White men do women wrong just the same. How many dead-beat white dad’s do you see on those wanted posters, displaying the thousands of dollars they owe to their children? White men are just as disappointing.

Although Ms. Chambers’ mainly focuses on racial issues, she does also touch base on economics, or better stated, wealth. She states, “Most black women under the age of thirty would rather have a rich white man than a poor black man.” I don’t believe that a black woman in that same age group would go for a poor white man either. I don’t think the issue here is race, I think it’s more of a focus on wealth, or wealthy men for that matter. ...