An Australian mother took her 3-year-old daughter to a Disney-themed event at a local shopping center when another mother at the event told the little girl she shouldn’t have dressed as her favorite Frozen character, Queen Else because “Queen Elsa isn’t black.”
Melbourne resident Rachel Muir, an aboriginal, was with her her daughter Samara when a fellow mother attending with her two daughters made the racist remarks.
“I asked the woman what she meant by the comment and then one of the woman’s young daughters screwed up her face, she pointed at Samara and said ‘you’re black and black is ugly,'” Muir told The Courier.
“I looked around the line and there were little girls of all different races lining up dressed as their favorite Disney characters,” the distraught mother said. “We were in Melbourne, one of the most multicultural places in the world. I couldn’t believe it.”
The incident went viral after Muir posted a photo of Samara with a description of what happened at the event.
My daughter was in tears when we were at watergardens for the frozen activities as a mother & her 2 daughters told my…
Posted by Rachel Muir on Sunday, May 31, 2015
The young girl was so affected by the incident that she did not want to go to her aboriginal dance class the next day and when her mother asked why, she responded, “because I’m black.”
“The saddest part of it all is that racism is alive and well and the next generation are being subjected to it,” Muir said.
Posted by Rachel Muir on Saturday, May 30, 2015
Me & Samara
Posted by Rachel Muir on Thursday, April 9, 2015
Samara has received support and uplifting comments from around the world.
Disney, hearing about the incident, wants to show Samara that she can, indeed, be a queen, no matter what she looks like. Disney on Ice Dare to Dream invited her not only to their show but also asked her to participate.