Kiely Williams' "Date rape anthem"

[Psi U MC Vito]

Originally Posted by BabyPiNK_FL

Cheetah Girls is a popular children's novel series about 4-5 black/mixed-black girls in early middle school who sang in a singing group that were MUCH younger than Disney made them out to be in the films. They were not created by Disney.

Like I said I didn't even know about the books before today. And wasn't one of the Disney ones white IIRC?

[BabyPiNK_FL]

Originally Posted by Psi U MC Vito

Like I said I didn't even know about the books before today. And wasn't one of the Disney ones white IIRC?

Yes, in the movie (I'm not quite certain what IIRC means) one of the characters is made white. In the books ALL of the characters are black, black and white/Italian, black-hispanic, etc. The point of the book was a book black girls could see themselves reflected in as there was not a lot of literature in the mainstream aimed at that demographic. Disney saw fit to tamper with the characters because God forbid there was not a white girl (although they never make it clear, at least not to me, but I believe she's supposed to be mixed-latina). I'm also pretty sure they cut one girl/character out, but not 100%.

ETA: They DID cut a Cheetah Girl from the film

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Che..._(novel_series)