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May 22, 2015
Disney should nix film on white man who claims African land to make daughter a princess
(theGrio) Disney plans to make a film about a white American man from Virginia who claims land in an African nation so that his daughter can become a princess. It’s 2015, and the studio wants to make a movie, based on a true story, about colonization. What is there not to like?
It sounds like satire, or a spoof from The Onion, but no, you couldn’t make this up if you tried.
Disney bought the rights to The Princess of North Sudan, the story about Jeremiah Heaton, a farmer from Abingdon, Virginia, who planted a flag on an uninhabited parcel of land between Egypt and Sudan, and proclaimed it the Kingdom of North Sudan. It was his daughter Emily’s seventh birthday. In an interview, Heaton told Agence France-Presse, “With a child you don’t want to ever tell them they can’t be something they desire to be, and at age six, her frame of reference for the world was to be a princess. So I told her that she could be.”
It sounds like satire, or a spoof from The Onion, but no, you couldn’t make this up if you tried.
Disney bought the rights to The Princess of North Sudan, the story about Jeremiah Heaton, a farmer from Abingdon, Virginia, who planted a flag on an uninhabited parcel of land between Egypt and Sudan, and proclaimed it the Kingdom of North Sudan. It was his daughter Emily’s seventh birthday. In an interview, Heaton told Agence France-Presse, “With a child you don’t want to ever tell them they can’t be something they desire to be, and at age six, her frame of reference for the world was to be a princess. So I told her that she could be.”
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