She looks beautiful, sings beautifully and no doubt will do well in the part.

BUT there is something to say about the constant change we have come to of traditionally white characters to black these days. I know historically its been the other way around, but it doesnt make it ok.

Not that this movie is so much the issue (The Little Mermaid is supposed to be Dutch based).

But after seeing ads for things like that Anne Boleyn show where they took a white historical icon and made her a black woman (while constantly complaining about Hollywood whitewashing and noninclusiveness) leaves a bad taste in my mouth. You cant complain that its happening to you then celebrate when you do it to someone else. Make up NEW stories. Give black men and women a chance to shine WITHOUT forcing them to endure critical comments from people because they took over a traditionally white role.

There are so many black/gay/minority creators, actors, directors etc that they could choose from and make new amazing shows, movies, everything. But for some reason we have some dead set ideology on remakes, including making changes to characters that dont need to be changed to shoe horn in some racial/sexuality chatter on the internet. I get it, making live action remakes are a big thing right now - but you are just making the racists and homophobes and whoever else is stupidly angry at people for choices that dont affect them, angry. And that hate mongering spreads.

Enough with remakes where they HAVE to change the base iconic characters. If its historical, why not keep it accurate? Keep the history to the people being portrayed. If its new and we allow for people to look at the content rather than the colour, sexuality or whatever other defining feature, we end up with some pretty damn cool stuff.