It Made Me Feel Like A Kid Again I Miss That - Tumblr Posts

i went to see the little mermaid today and all i can say is… wow it REALLY healed my inner child. it brought me so much joy and happiness to FINALLY see my favorite disney princess look like me, to have rich golden brown skin, and hair easily identifiable as belonging to a black woman not straightened or permed. my entire life i’ve always wanted to be a mermaid, and it sounds so lame to say now as a teenager, but the movie made me feel like a child again like i was 10 years old seeing ariel for the first time. i fell in love not only with halle herself but with how she portrayed ariel and didn’t take away any key ariel qualities, she was still just a lost girl looking to find a place to belong. sure her hair was different and she doesn’t have the same skin color as the ariel we all grew up with, but that’s what made it so special so IMPORTANT to me, because she didn’t look like everyone else… she looked like ME. she looked like me and she got a happy ending she got her prince and she got her legs and she reached the place she longed to be. happy. and free.