2 hours ago The Little Mermaid being black makes scientific sense, a marine biologist has suggested. A trailer for the much-anticipated, live-action reboot of the classic 1989 cartoon film was shown to Disney insiders during the D23 Expo last week - a huge Disney event where fans get exclusive access to trailers as well as content. The movie stars Halle Bailey - a 22-year-old singer and actor who, along with her sister, makes up half of the Grammy award-winning musical duo Chloe x Halle. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Halle Bailey (@hallebailey) While most viewers were wowed by the teaser and praised 22-year-old Bailey's incredible vocals in a snippet of 'Part of Your World' that was shown in the preview, a number of racists took to social media to begin the hashtag "#notmyariel," questioning Disney's use of black actors in its films.

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An AI scientist has been slammed by social media users after he edited the trailer for The Little Mermaid and replaced actress Halle Bailey, 20, from California, with a white woman.

Matt Walsh is trending on Twitter again for convincing hapless Media Matters that he's deeply concerned about the rights of translucent individuals being represented in Disney's new live-action 'The Little Mermaid.'The saga began when Media Matters journalist Jason Campbell shared a clip from Walsh's show featuring the podcaster complaining that it's 'unscientific' to cast a black actress as Ariel in the new movie. 'From a scientific perspective, it doesn't make a lot of sense to have someone with darker skin who lives deep in the ocean,' the Daily Wire host said.

The voice actress for Ariel in Disneys original The Little Mermaid is showing her support for Halle Bailey! As you know, Disney released the first teaser trailer for their live action remake of the iconic 80s movie last Friday. The movie has been met with lots of opinions and sadly, a lot of them were [...]Read More...

MadameNoire Featured Video Source: Corey Nickols / Getty While Black girls are relishing in Halle Bailey being the new Ariel in The Little Mermaid,–racists are fuming. The trailer for the Disney film was released just a few days ago and has racked up 1.5 million dislikes, presumably from bigots. This led to YouTube disabling the dislike counter, Newsweek noted. There have also been offensive memes of Hailey Bailey as Ariel floating around the internet. Newports and watermelon have been photoshopped into pictures.

CNN digital senior entertainment writer Lisa France said Thursday on "New Day" thatthose objecting to black actress Halle Bailey playing Ariel in Disney's upcoming remake of The Little Mermaid showed "racism is real." | Clips

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Screenshot: YouTube Disney is releasing a live-action version of The Little Mermaid and giving fans a first look. The trailer is making waves, particularly among Black girls who are so excited to see Halle Bailey take on the role of the first Black Ariel. Parents are sharing heartwarming videos of their children's reactions to seeing Bailey, and they demonstrate just how powerful on-screen representation is. The videos show the girls beaming as Bailey appears in the trailer. 'I wanna watch it!' One says.

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Parents are posting TikTok videos of their children reacting to the trailer for Disney's "The Little Mermaid" after actor Halle Bailey has faced racist backlash for her casting.Videos showing kids, especially young Black girls, seeing Bailey as the titular character for the first time and singing "Part of Your World" have gotten millions of views.One video posted by TikTok user @thedfwdad showed a dad playing the trailer for his two Black daughters. When they saw Bailey, one of the girls said, "She's Black? Yay!" The video received 1.

Halle Bailey is all set to play the role of Disney princess Ariel in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. The teaser of the film, saw Bailey's Ariel singing Part Of Your World. Following the teaser release, a trend of young black girls watching and reacting to it is going viral on TikTok. While many people have been moved to see the little girls happy to see Bailey playing the little mermaid, the actor herself reacted to the videos and mentioned how she is in awe of them. Halle Bailey recently took to her Instagram handle to share a video of delighted black girls reacting to seeing her play Ariel in the new The Little Mermaid.

Listen 7 min Comment on this story Comment Gift Article Share Precious Avery remembers just how rare it was to see Black characters on television growing up, so she started recording as her 3-year-old, Emery, absorbed the trailer for the new 'Little Mermaid' film. Wp Get the full experience. Choose your plan ArrowRight As turtles swam through coral reefs, an image of a mermaid appears, then Halle Bailey, a Black actress and singer, was revealed as Ariel. 'I think she's Brown,' Emery said with a grin.

A man has today insisted that Mermaids can not be black because they live in the sea, despite his own personal favourite story starring a middle-eastern man with fair hair, blue eyes and movie-star looks. Chuck Williams, 50, believes Disney is rewriting history by casting a black Ariel in the live-action remake of Little Mermaid, seemingly unaware that mermaids aren't real and so their existence isn't documented in any history books. Williams went on, 'I don't care what anyone says, mermaids are white.

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