'Soul': Pixar's New Movie Has Viewers Debating Perceived Blackface Aspect

I genuinely have no idea why people aren't talking more honestly about how Soul fails its Black characters and audiences by crafting its story for white people https://t.co/55hlNjPzKA

Like they literally center it around jazz and all these beautiful black characters drawing in a black audience but not really caring much abt who was voicing these characters. Like I know that 22 was a soul and wasn’t mean to have a race but cmon now 1/3

In the real world we all know there was a race behind the actors and they really just catered it towards black ppl so why couldn’t they have found a black voice actor to voice 22 if they were going to be in the black main characters body for the majority of the movie ? 2/3

Same old story. 21st century blackface and white salvation in a Disney movie that supposedly celebrates Black culture. https://t.co/xjgZnJP4Tc

My least favorite part was Tina Fey in animated blackface.

someone on here really said the Soul movie was blackface I’m—
*logs off*

Just got done watching Disney's "Soul." Can someone explain how we still got blackface in 2020?

I think Soul was a cute movie and I just refuse to critique it for racism or blackface or whatever lol. I want to mindlessly enjoy something for once, and soul didn’t have any glaring issues TO ME

I understand a lot of the criticisms about Soul but I felt like the movie made it very clear that 22 was not white or a woman, but simply an unborn soul. Voiced by a white woman, yes, but not a white woman.

(spoiler) The thing about Soul is, it’s ludicrous that a white woman (Tina Fey) inhabited the body of a Black man within the movie, but someone at the highest levels of production decided that the movie wouldn’t sell unless Blackness was erased and inhabited by whiteness.

Not only does he get transformed into a blue soul, but (SPOILER) he also loses control of his body to Tina Fey’s character for a large part of the movie. It felt like a 21st century version of Blackface to me... And she already had racist moments in 30 Rock and Kimmy Schmidt.

as much as i had fun with that movie i literally thought 'hm but... but why... who thought 'white woman voices black man' is ok?' multiple times

Yes, Soul did a great job of capturing a slice of black life/black culture. But some people are deservedly weirded out that a white actress (who’s written blackface before) voiced a black man for a chunk of the film. If you’re white, it’s not your place to dismiss that critique.

Counterpoint: It’s great to see Black people in movies especially animated ones (Spiderverse, Soul) without the point of the movie being about their Blackness.

Normalize stories about Black people just being people not vessels for sharing 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙀𝙭𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚. https://t.co/yLnYfs7kka