I know, I know, you’d rather not give any credit to the saccharine-sweet world of Disney. But the fact is, the Disney network is a racial nirvana, where children and adults of all races, creeds and colors play, date, and work together, without an eyebrow raised. Take the wildly popular High School Musical : the romantic leads, Troy and Gabriela, are a white jock and a Latina brain. Their best friends are both black and the villain is a rich white girl adored by a black basketball player who also loves to bake. Or how about Corey in the House, a spin-off of the hit That’s So Raven. African-American Corey moves into the White House when his dad is named the head chef by a Hispanic president. His best friends are a white surfer dude and a Middle East girl, who he secretly has a crush on.
Of course, you then get someone like Angelina Jolie cannot get past the idea that there are no african-american Disney princess. According to this article, she should look in her backyard and at her profession first.
Too bad the rest of Hollywood hasn’t followed suit. According to an Entertainment Weekly study of casts for the fall 2008 season, each of the five major broadcast networks is whiter than the Caucasian percentage (66.2%) of the U.S. population. And all of the networks are representing considerably lower than the Latino population percentage of 15.2%.
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