Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-5367821-20130209055547/@comment-1758442-20130627044530

108.49.79.202 wrote:

Because at the time that Ariel's story is set in, dark-skinned people were largely associated with slavery, and light-skinned people such as the man she falls for were not. Furthermore, the man she falls for has traditionally been a sailor, correct? Well, again, it wouldn't make sense for him to have been black, for example, because in the time period this supposedly happened in, it would have been near impossible to find a black man /working/, not enslaved, on a merchant vessel. Hell, I doubt very many even got on merchant vessels.

Also, "Since these stories take place in fantasy realms" You do realize Storybrooke is on Earth, right? Storybrooke is on Earth but the Enchanted Forest isn't. You're citing Earth history to argue that fairytale characters from a completely different world can't be black, brown, or Asian. There's no evidence that slavery even existed in the Enchanted Forest and we already have an in-canon example of a black man who became a knight. There is no reason to believe that a black person couldn't be a sailor, a prince, or a knight in the Enchanted Forest world.