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The Princess and the Frog: More Green than Black
After Pocahontas, Jasmine and Mulan, the wonderful world of Walt Disney welcomes a new Princess, the beautiful Tania. The studios play the Obama card by creating an African American heroine in their latest cartoon entitled The Princess and the Frog.


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