WALSH: The Media Claims That Racists Are Outraged Over A Black Mermaid. The Outrage Is Completely Phony, Of Course.

Disney, a company that ran out of original ideas 25 years ago, just announced that another live-action remake of a popular cartoon is in the works. The creative trust at Disney is so bereft of creativity that now they are reduced to staging literal shot-for-shot reenactments of their films, which is a bit like a washed up band releasing a covers album of their own past hits. The latest cartoon to get this treatment is the ’90’s classic “The Little Mermaid.”

This one, like all the others, promises to be an utterly charmless and pointless retelling of a story that was told well enough the first time around, but there will be one change. Ariel, the mermaid at the center of the story, will go from white to black. An R&B singer named Halle Bailey is taking on the challenging role.