I recently discovered a blogger that posts very interesting pieces. I don't know much about the person, except that the writer uses the name Abagond. I'm sharing the May 18, 2015 blog, because it relates to a post I wrote back on November 26, 2009.
Abagond and I both are illuminating the Disney Film Company's relationship with the concept of a Black or African princess. I thought you might find it interesting to juxtapose the two posts and see what that process reveals. Please read the Abagond blog post below and then click this link to revisit the two posts I did back in 2009.
I definitely think following the production of this film would be worthwhile. I mean, 2014, and a white man is trying to claim a piece of Sudan as his, so that his daughter can be a princess.....?!???!? LHM!!! Or as my Grandma used to say, "Lord, Have Mercy!"
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 | The Princess of North Sudanby abagond |
"The Princess of North Sudan" will be Disney's first film about an African princess. She will be White.
It will be based on the true story of Emily Heaton, a White American girl who wanted to be a princess. Her father, Jeremiah Heaton, went to Africa in 2014 and, on her seventh birthday, planted a flag in Bir Tawil, a bit of land not claimed by any government. He called it the Kingdom of North Sudan, making himself king and his daughter a princess.
Bir Tawil is on the border between Egypt and Sudan. It is about two-thirds the size of Rhode Island, larger than Bahrain or Singapore, though it is landlocked and largely desert. Neither Egypt nor Sudan want to claim it because that would mean giving up their right to the Hala'ib Triangle, a much bigger piece of land further east on the Red Sea. Bir Tawil has been claimed by several people on the Internet. Heaton is the first one to go there and plant a flag.
No government recognizes his claim, nor does the United Nations.
He says no one lives there. "No one" must means "no one White". The very reason Bir Tawil became a matter of dispute is because it was part of the grazing lands of the Ababda people. They have been there for thousands of years: they were part of the Blemmyes who fought the Roman Empire in the 100s and 200s.
Jeremiah Heaton is a White American farmer who runs a mining-safety company. He lives in south-western Virginia, where he owns Cherokee land claimed by Whites.
Heaton does not see himself as a White colonialist:
Academics at universities saying this is modern day colonialism, really that’s a euphemism for racism. I can’t help any more that I was born in America as a white man than an Asian person born in Asia can [help that]."
Implying that the US is a White country. Heaton says he has never viewed the world through a racial lens.
The film: Morgan Spurlock, of "Super Size Me" (2004), will be a producer. Stephany Folsom is writing the script. On May 14th 2015, she tweeted:
There is no planting a flag in Sudan or making a white girl the princess of an African country. That's gross. #PrincessOfNorthSudan
But then she deleted it. It seems to contradict the fact that it is a film entitled "The Princess of North Sudan" based on the Heatons.
Rushaa Hamid, a British writer who grew up in Sudan:
"Stories of the Sudan are still told through white voices, and 'The Princess of North Sudan' continues that trend. We Sudanese are linked with teddy-bears, scandalous trousers, and people who marry goats, but we are never the Kushite kingdom or the Mahdi or our own ancient fairy tales. Disney would rather embrace a story that should have ended with independence in 1956, and that's simply wrong."
Not only is Heaton trying to colonize Africa - so is Disney.
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