Disney Has a Middle School Drag Performer Dressed as Pocahontas

Get ready for this one because it’s almost so out there that it’s unbelievable. But this is Disney we’re talking about, and not-so-secret-agendas are in full force.

The Walt Disney Company released a new trailer for the Proud Family Louder and Prouder Season 2 that just came out on Disney+ on Wednesday. You can read our review of the first episode here. Spoiler alert: I wouldn’t call it “must see TV.”

While we were all ready to move on the Proud Family, this trailer has content that has to be commented on. It notes a distinct change in the way that the company that Walt Disney founded does business and the way they market their more controversial children’s shows.

While the show is inherently “woke” in its presentation, Disney has trended away from putting LGBT elements in their marketing materials in the past. Some have speculated that this was intentional on the part of Disney to try and draw in as many viewers as possible. They made a show. They want people to watch it.

Another theory is that Disney and their well-documented “not-so-secret gay agenda” might have hidden problematic elements in order to get past less diligent parents who would not approve of a show like The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder if they knew what it contains. For a rundown, I have done a breakdown of the “woke” content in episode 1.

It seems that the marketing strategy around objectionable children’s content at Disney has changed significantly.

Let’s set the scene.

The trailer starts at the home of the Prouds and shows the main character Penny’s middle school friend group engaged in some kind of princess-styled fashion competition. They are all dressed as various intellectual properties owned by Disney. LaBienciaga emerges as Disney Junior’s Elena of Avalor, Dijonay is next and she’s dressed in the classic blue dress of Cinderella, albeit it with an updated hairstyle as Disney is prone to do these days. Penny wears the green dress that Tiana dons in the ending scenes of The Princess and the Frog.

At this point they deviate a bit as another girl is dressed as the singer Beyonce Knowles as she appeared in Disney+’s Black is King, and the next one we see is dressed in a perfect, long-haired recreation of Pocahontas, whose wind-blown hair cascades around them as sparkles and leaves magically twirl.

Keep that image in mind, because I think you know where this is going.

Trudy, the matriarch, is dressed as Belle from Beauty and the Beast and looks on with so much pride at Pocahontas. Oscar, an ever-present black father (and the butt of most of the family-related jokes on the series) is dozing off as Sir Hiss from Robin Hood while holding the twins (dressed as The Lion King’s Simba and Nala). Trudy marks a scorecard and then announces:

“The winner of the 10^th annual Princess Party costume contest, our H.P.I.C.” she pauses, then clarifies “Head Princess In Charge is… drumroll please…” and the children slap their black father for comedic effect.

“… MICHAEL!”

Pocahontas now speaks in a distinctly feminized but manly baritone: “oh my goodness, I don’t know what to say!”

You see, Pocahontas, aka Michael Collins, is voiced by EJ Johnson, the son of Magic Johnson. Michael matches his real-life counterpart in that they are both gender-nonconforming and openly gay.

See the trailer for yourself

While Disney officially states that Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is for teenagers, the show is available on the “for kids” section of the Disney+ app and, according to Target’s website, is a brand merchandised to five-to-seven-year-olds. As of the writing of this article, the show is one of the banner properties on Disney+ for Black History Month.

On the Jonas J. Campbell YouTube page, we went through just the first episode of the series and found an abundant endorsement of underage LGBT lifestyles, criminal activity in the name of climate activism, an endless list of grown-up reading materials on critical race theory, climate change, the detrimental impact of Christianity on the Black community and the constant emasculation of Oscar, a Black father.

Feel free to check that out if you want to understand what we mean:

We stopped at episode 1, but we have heard about all kinds of content that might raise eyebrows through-out the series.

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