Sunday, March 11, 2007


Disney creates first Black animated Princess
This time Amren.Com has entitled news about an animation film by the name "The Frog Princess" in which for the first time a black princess has been created by studio. It is hand-drawn animation and according to analysts Disney Company tends to retest this type of work for producing animation like classic works to launch the original Disney studios.
As mentioned before, it is for the first time this company uses a black main character in its work. In their comments, some of the readers of this news have implemented some arguments about Disney, as if he was himself a racist, and have states that "he would roll over in his grave if he saw what has happened to his creation". I don’t know how Disney was during his life, but I don’t believe that an artist that his or her goal is to make people happy can discriminate between them, unless he or she works politically. If it was so, he would not be an artist, we should call him a hired not an artist. Some argue that "Blacks should create a black land like Disneyland and the manager of Disneyland should know that he has destroyed American culture and its moral tradition." One should say to this guy that which moral tradition you're talking about? Were they your fathers moralistic who were burning the blacks because they were black? Some have offered some Arabic and Asian name for this princess to show their discontent a black character having an American name.
To confront this type of comments and ideas about such a foolish issue, I believe that some African-Americans are right if they think that they should have nationalistic view about themselves, although some Whites have very moderate and logical idea.

Sunday, March 04, 2007


A New Twist to an Intriguing Family History

Barack Obama is a Democratic nominee for 2008 presidential election. He is known as one may be supported not only by African- Americans but even whites. On March 2, 2007, there was news in Baltimore Sun about a research on Obama's ancestors. Here is the news "Many people know that Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s father was from Kenya and his mother from Kansas. But an intriguing sliver of his family history has received almost no attention until now: It appears that forebears of his white mother owned slaves, according to genealogical research and census records."
A researcher, William Addams Reitwiesner, has worked on this issue whether is true. He has concluded that both great, great, great, great grandfather and grand mother of Obama have owned slaves. Now this is a question that if Obama with this background can be successful in election. The researcher also claims that Obama's root I not from Africa, because he is grown in east Asia and Hawaii and then has educated in Colombia and Harvard universities, and now by this background, how he would be able to attract blacks and repair the past, because as one of observers of this news has given the comment "Obama himself owes reparation" because his ancestors were slave owners.
Analysis
The first thing that may come to mind is that destruction of personality in US while an election will be conducted is not newly issue, particularly if nominee is black. Many of those who have written comment on this news either are pro-republicans or racist, because they have used very abusive words not only against Obama but also H. Clinton, as another Democrats' nominee, and called her "a woman who could care less about American citizens in her egotistic dreams of being the first female president."
In our country also there was such debate about many our politicians. The fact that in such a competition no one thinks about how much this man is powerful in terms of politics, economics and other issues thereon a beurocratman should be very skillful and practical.
I think there will be no remedy for this topic, unless the views on changes and every one looks on that as service not monopoly.