In case you don't remember, the original animated Disney film was a train wreck of leftist shit that completely stripped the source material of everything that was culturally significant in it.
No longer did the lead become a saint who watched over and interceded for her siblings from heaven, but instead she ascended beyond her nature, like a transhumanist wet dream, leaving behind her penis-towered palace beneath the sea to be married to a vapid billionaire by a priest sporting a boner.
Sure, you may have really fond memories of its catchy tunes and cute sidekicks. That's expected of unthinking children.
So, yes, they race swapped a main character. But before they did that they raped a Christian fairytale of everything that made it good and turned it into trash. It was an entertaining cartoon for kids. It was not a significant part of western white heritage.
I don't think you understood anything I wrote.
Disney's always bad. I have nothing good to say about them, ever. "Admirable" was completely sarcastic. Halle does not have broad appeal because her work overwhelmingly targets sexualized black teens, and is arguably racist against non blacks. But anyways, I'll humor you. How about Sophie Evans, Colette Lush, or Jeni Ross? I just discovered then with a cursory 5 minute web search. I'm sure Disney has much more potent talent scouting systems than that.
Mami Wata is from nowhere near the Mediterranean and is not a Mermaid? This is the same ignorant shit that takes a mythological fantasy history of ENGLAND and fills it with gay black people.
It's all really a moot point as far as I'm concerned, though, because Disney is gonna Disney, and they've already raped the original story. Arguing about whether Ariel should be black or red is like arguing in 2050 about the newest depiction of Aragorn and Frodo being tri-racial and demisexual rather than a mixed race gay couple, like they were in the 2030 version. Either way, Tolkien's spinning in his grave and you're shitting all over the culture that produced those characters in the first place.
Good, at least you are consistent. Much more than those complaining about black people at least
You could make the same argument you did with Halle 🥱
She's a mermaid, don't forget the cultural exchange that took place in that region