Categories: just-life
Date: 27 November 2009 19:10:21
"It's probably a combination of our new president, a feeling that change has swept the land and thinking about how they can get involved in this change." - Bonnie Greer Since her appearance on Question Time I have a growing admiration of Bonnie Greer, and then she says something like this. Of course, on it's own, this statement doesn't seem too bad, indeed the election of President Obama has led to a great feeling of change not only in the United States but across the world. However, I don't think that he can claim* any sort of credit for the first African-American Disney Princess, Tiana in The Princess and the Frog. Mainly because, being a hand-drawn animated film it has been in production for a number of years and the ethnicity was decided back when Barack Obama was an unknown senator from Illinois... if not before!! * - not that he is...