NotMyAriel: White Cultural Appropriation Is Not Real

DarkSkyLady
4 min readJul 7, 2019
Photo by Briona Baker on Unsplash

It’s likely not a coincidence that the 4th of July in the U.S. was heralded online by racist hashtags/words trending, such as the use of the word “colored” in a Global Times tweet.

The other trending hashtag had to do with what Global Times was using the word “colored” to tweet about — Disney casting a Black girl, Halle Bailey, as Ariel in their live-action adapatation of…

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DarkSkyLady

Black/Puerto Rican creative non-binary. Spouts nonsense that occasionally makes sense. they/them