… The live-action remake’s titular character is played by R&B singer and actress Halle Bailey. Casting a black actress as Ariel may have potentially alienated the Chinese Communist Party, a genocidal tyranny notorious for anti-black racism, from banning black people from restaurants and hotels in 2020 in response to the Wuhan coronavirus to producing racist “viral” social media videos of African children unknowingly insulting themselves in Mandarin.
