Just when it seemed wokeness had hit its limits of absurdity...

I never thought of the lions as even having a "race" in the human sense of the word

Why would someone who is deaf go to see a musical?

Breaking news animals have race now!

Is an African story.

Irrelevant... African animals are not black or white in terms of race... all the characters are animals and by liberal asinine logic should not even be signed by humans or portrayed by humans.

There are plenty of white people in Africa. For example, Elon Musk is a true African American. Born in Africa migrated to USA which now he is citizen. Yet he is white. That brainfart that only black people live in Africa is just that, a brain fart.

Not when this story was first conceived.

You know Disney's Lion King is a rip-off of anime Kimba The White Lion? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kimba_the_White_Lion

Yes, and that was an ancient story passed down verbally for generations by native African tribes.

Here is a better picture of how awful Disney plagiarized Kimba the White Lion https://12tomatoes.com/kimba-similarity-lion-king/