also being a cop is a CHOICE. being black is NOT. fuck your “thin blue line” and “blue lives matter” bullshit.
[image desc: a person holding a pink sign reading: “You’re only “blue” 40 hours a week / IM BLACK 24/7 365”. they are stood in front of a row of police officers in riot gear]
to all the people that complain about black people in historical european settings: don’t you ever get tired of being racist?
“but it’s not historically accurate”, i see you cry out. you know what else isn’t historically accurate? all the perfect teeth. all the hairless women. the costumes, often. the accents. the fact that i’m supposed to believe that everyone spoke english all the time regardless of where they were and which company was present. but sure, black people in medieval europe, that’s the big historical innacuracy. because you’re racist.
“the gay community was never racist”
shit y’all still are to this day
:/
I’m glad my post got around.. ppl need to see some history
racial fetishization is racism.
it is not a compliment.
stop pretending that you are ~appreciating the culture~, and being respectful.
reducing the many varied people within a culture to the parts that you think are cute is not being appreciative. racism is not respectful.
stop.
It seems like a lot of my fellow white gays have forgotten that and forgotten that hey lgbtq people can still be racist and do racist things and this is one of those things. We already have issues with racism in our spaces and we already have issues of us lgbtq people stealing shit from black culture and stealing their terms for dealing with their oppression
So let’s all collectively stop doing that shit if we’re not black yeah? Let’s go ahead and put down this meme we picked up that isn’t for or about us and never wasCan y'all stop ignoring me when I say shit like this like I’m not fucking around I’m unfollowing people who do this because I’m not dealing with casual racism from y'all especially in a discourse that’s literally all about lgbtq safety and oppression. Stop being your racism into it. It’s ugly.
eric.lathan@channelview.isd.esc4.net here’s the school principal’s email
Sad af. 2017 and still racist acts going on. It’s something new every day
Yooooo everyone’s getting real bold now and this is why we need to start throwing hands
Anonymous said: Why are you so unapologetically black? Get over yourself.
See… I was just going to delete this and move on with my wonderfully educational day and just forget about it. I’ve been doing that a lot lately. But no. I need to show proof that this exists and I need to say something.
Instead of asking me why I’m so unapologetically black why not ask yourself why we live in a world where this is a bad thing? Why we live in a world where I can not be who I am. I was born black and since birth I’ve had all things stereotypes placed over my head and prejudices that had already existed.
So why don’t you tell me why we live in a world where being of color is a bad thing? Why people with different skin are treated differently? Why in 2017 I’m getting an ask asking me over the Internet why I’m so unapologetically black and telling me to get over myself instead of using the Internet to educate yourself? We’re all from different places with different backgrounds and life styles and experiences. Educate yourself. Why do I have to get over my “blackness” but you don’t have to get over your racism?
See. I really wasn’t going to say anything, because this will get five likes and possibly one reblog. But it’s not even about that or the followers I will lose for calling you out. It’s about the fact that this blog is MINE. It is for me. I should not fear anonymous low lives every time I log on. I should not worry if I will receive another racist ask. Because I assure you if I never told anyone I was black I wouldn’t get these.
So why don’t you ask yourself why we live in a world where this is true?
I AM BLACK. I AM AFRICAN AMERICAN. MY MOTHER IS DARK SKINNED. MY FATHER IS LIGHT SKINNED. I AM AN IN BETWEEN. WE WERE BORN THIS WAY. WE CAN NOT CHANGE OUR SKIN COLOR AND WE DO NOT WANT TO. IT IS WHO WE ARE.
Why don’t you ask yourself instead why I live in a world where I’m not represented? Where I don’t see myself? Where I don’t feel like I can relate to a character? And yes it’s ‘just a character’, but it’s a character who looks like me.
Who wears braids like me. Who has brown eyes like me. Who has stretch marks like me. Who has brown skin like me. Who has kinky hair like me. Who is like me.
You take this for granted because you get it all the time. We don’t.
Why don’t you ask yourself why we live in a world where I don’t feel beautiful? Where the beauty standard is being white and having blonde or brown hair? Where it’s having blue, green, or grey eyes? A few freckles here or there, maybe a pimple for imperfection. That’s not me. And every day that same standard is here and it makes me feel ugly.
Now I know I’m god damn beautiful. I am enough self confidence to last me a few hours out of the day. But it’s not about that. It’s about the world thinking that white-beauty is the norm and that the rest of us are “exotic” and cute sometimes, but not all the time.
And then if you want to dig deeper colorism exists. Light skin is beautiful but dark skin is apparently ugly? Why? I’ll answer it for you: light skin is closer to being white. Closer to the “beauty-standard”. But just enough POP of color to be “exotic”.
Why don’t you ask instead why I live in a world where if I get one black character, god forbid, I’m not happy. God forbid I’m not happy with the misrepresentation and the tokenism and the stereotypes. God forbid I want to say something about it because then OH NO look it’s another angry black girl. Hell yeah I’m angry. You’ve given me plenty of reason to be. God forbid out of the thousand and thousands AND THOUSANDS of characters in books, movies, shows, and whatever I want more than twenty of them to be black (oh and then they somehow get killed off but that was just for plot, definitely)
God forbid I say anything, right? I should just stay quiet and live in this world and say nothing? In a world that hates me or at least doesn’t care about me enough to give me representation. And then if we DO GET IT the show gets cancelled. Yes, I’m talking about The Get Down. You guys fake preach along side us about wanting diversity, but then when a show comes out you go out of your way not to watch it. Meanwhile Stranger Things and 13 Reasons Why are really out there thriving.
And God really forbid if I hate the way some black characters are written. BUT THAT DOESN’T MEAN I DON’T WANT THEM WRITTEN. I WANT THEM WRITTEN BETTER. I want authors to do just a small amount of research. This is their job. This is what they do. If they can write about 20 blonde Mary Sues then I’m sure they can do a little bit of research to write diverse characters. But God forbid that, right? For… some reason?
And then when I do say something I get knocked down. This is my life that I live every day. I’m not your parent. I’m not your teacher. It’s not my job to educate you, but it’s also not your place to tell me I’m overreacting. And this goes for any person of color or anyone in the lgbt+ community that says something about their “rep” that they don’t like. Do not brush it off. Try listening to them and understanding. Sometimes we just want to be heard, to have a voice.
Ask yourself why we live in a world where every day I’m just tired of living? Ever day I’m so tired of living in a world that just doesn’t care about me. I’m so tired of having to defend myself; having to read book after book, watch show after show, and see the same characters. Sure. I could stop reading and watching tv but… why should I have to sacrifice what I love to do because authors, writers, Hollywood, and whoever hates me? Maybe hate is a strong word. But I don’t feel like it is. Not at this point.
I’m not going to apologize for being black. I shouldn’t have to. And honestly the term “apologetically black” is subjective. I don’t go around my blog screaming and clapping in your faces I’m black and I hate everything. I just make it clear that I’m black and I’m not happy with the “rep” you guys keep telling me to be happy about.
Congratulations.
You figured it out.
I’m an apologetic black girl.
BOOST THIS
“I must keep saying this: How the HELL are we going to spend $20 bil to build the #WallOfHate but can’t find $55 mil to fix pipes in Flint?!!”
~ Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow)
13 Reasons Why was met with the most backlash I’ve ever seen. I have NEVER seen anybody on this site agree on anything in such a unanimous way that 13rw was bad. And yet it got renewed for a second season.
Then you have The Get Down, a show barely surviving in the first place because Netflix gave it LITTLE TO NO PROMOTION and it isn’t even in the first 3 pages of the “Netflix Originals” scroll list. So many people loved this show, there was so much effort to try and get it to renew but it got cancelled.
I wonder the fuck why.
i’m literally so angry like this is all netflix fault bc they just love to promote the shit out of white shows like stranger things and girlboss and 13rw but shows with rep like the get down don’t even get youtube ads??? like i didn’t see a single one but 13rw was on EVERY video i watched. dear white people is probably not going to be renewed for the same reason. it’s completly unfair that the get down won’t get a new season when it’s such a great show. honestly if the characters were white everyone would be all over it
Knowing that trans women of color started the movement in the united states and were literally immediately erased and excluded from what they started is the most deeply jading knowledge.
It is the original sin of the so-called queer community and it damns it from the cradle.
no white gay boy will ever reblog this, watch:
no white gay will reblog this
funny how shows with white leads like 13rw didn’t have to do shit to get renewed right off the bat while the fate of the get down is still up in the air even after so much fan enthusiasm, a petition, a hashtag and mostly good reviews
my white protesters please remember that you’re rarely at the same risk we are when you stand up for what is right
I’m not gonna stop reblogging these reminders
It would be REALLY FUCKIN GREAT if white people, SPECIFICALLY WHITE PEOPLE, would call out colorism and whitewashing within fandom.
When you leave it just to poc, not only are we having to look at things that actively harm us, but we’re having to waste time and energy on educating people.
But not only that, every single time we call it out, and I mean EVERY time, we also have to deal with racists coming out of the woodwork and harassing us for us calling it out, even months or years later on this garbage hellsite.
What can you do as a white person?
• educate YOURSELF
• educate fellow white people
• call colorism out when you see it
• when you see a poc trying to call it out, support them. Maybe message them to see if they’re okay, and definitely join in in the callout publicly to show that racism isn’t acceptable. (Just don’t talk over poc)
• QUIT SUPPORTING ARTISTS THAT WHITEWASH. Don’t give the artists your uncritical reblogs. Don’t just reblog with commentary in the tags. That doesn’t help. Call it out or don’t reblog. Simple as that.
• if you see people harassing poc for calling colorism out, defend them. Maybe send the person nice stuff to cheer them up. I know it always lessens the burden for me when friends tag me in or message me cute stuff, even if they don’t have the ability to get into the fight. Support poc.
And perhaps most importantly:Quit ignoring posts like these where poc ask you to be a better ally.
