Following the teaser trailer for the live-action version of Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” parents of young Black girls are posting videos across social media of their children’s reactions to seeing Halle Bailey as Ariel.
“I wanna watch it!” a girl says in a video posted by TikTok user Adelia Chaiyakul.
“Mommy! … She’s brown like me!” says a girl in another TikTok.
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