The Princess and the Frog

[Raph's Girl]

Originally Posted by NameGoesHere1066

wasn't there a diffrent design for the african princess than the one they have here? I've been seeing alot of debate about how the orgins of the princess has changed to that of a society girl from a supposed chamber maid named Maddie.



Leave it to my people to making a racist thing out of all this.

Yeah. She was originally a chamber maid named Maddie.

This is her original look (I took the picture from when the original article aired in 07 and kept it)



And now this is Princess Tiana:


From wikipedia:

There was some controversy when the name of the heroine of the movie (the first Black American Disney Princess) was announced as "Maddy". The character's name was perceived by some to be a stereotypically lower-class "black name", and the character was also a chambermaid, an occupation some felt not in keeping with the image of a Disney Princess.

WTF??? A chambermaid is an occupation some felt not in keeping with the image of a Disney Princess?! Um... Cinderella anyone?!

As for the name Maddie....how is that a stereotypical black name??? WTF?! I have never heard of any black person with that name!! Maddie is short for Madeline. You know.. Madeline Albright, Madeline Pryor, Madeline the little French orphan...