Thread:MeapGirlAG/@comment-29789305-20150714225325/@comment-3991308-20150716070705

To give you guys some context, MeapGirl posted a comment saying how Justine shouldn't be black because she's from a European tale.

That's racist because it erases the existence of an entire group of people. People of colour, including black people, have existed in Europe for centuries and millenia. The Roman Empire was a huge melting pot of all races, Alexander Dumas (you may know him as the Three Musketeers guy) was black, and Shakespeare had a black protagonist. As well as this, many influential Europeans were people of colour. The belief that Europeans, before our current era of modernism, were somehow all write is severely incorrect and unjustified.

The fact that "they're white because they're Europeans" is one of the most absurb and ignorant claims this fandom makes when it comes to the lack of racial diversity in canon characters.

Little children out there – the intended demographic for these dolls – deserve to see themselves represented in Ever After High. Do you know how harmful it is for children of colour to grow up and not be able to see themselves as princesses or heroes or important characters in fantasy stories?

To deny children this opportunity because of some narrow, confined view of the world is wrong.