Review of The Snowy Day

I sit down with my wife and twin 3 year old daughters to watch what my wife and I thought was a Christmas cartoon that finally had some black characters. We actually thought it was a movie about a black child and his family. My delight and anticipation was quickly replaced with disappointment as the black stereotype character of a black man walking around aimlessly singing in the snow. I had to pull out my phone to investigate who the author of this film was when Peter's, the young black boy and main character, friend was a young Jewish white girl. I was no longer surprised when my internet research resulted in discovering that this movie was written by not one but three white people. I immediately understood the placement of the white vender, the white Jewish girl, the Jewish girl's mother, the white Jewish bakery owner, the stereotypical black males singing on the street corner, nanna's mac and cheese, Peter's cousin in the barber shop and the white vender basically saving Peter's Christmas. Why couldn't Disney have hired a black author to make a holiday movie about black people? Why do white people think they can tell a story about black people when they clearly don't understand black people and resort to stereotypes and interjecting their own culture? My wife, who is white, and I found this movie offensive and my daughters were bored.