Toddler dressed as Frozen queen told: 'Elsa isn't black'
A three-year-old aboriginal girl was left in tears after being told “Elsa isn’t black,” when she was dressed as the Frozen film character at a Melbourne shopping centre.
Mum Rachel said daughter Samara was “shocked and started to cry” when another mother at the Disney event they were attending made the comments. Her daughters told Samara: “Black is ugly”.
“It breaks your heart,” Rachel said. “But I didn’t retaliate with any negativity because I didn’t want to show my daughter that’s how you react to situations like that”.
Samara and Rachel have since received messages of support from all over the world.
This clip is originally from Up All Night on Monday 23 June 2015
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