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I'd broaden Zooble's to Black people since they're non-binary.

I don't know much about Indian stereotypes outside of sexualizing ones (which. I guess Gangle is harassed so technically still fits unfortunately). So I can't speak on those much.

Zooble, however, is pretty blatantly an Angry Black Person™ that's villainized/viewed as inherently antagonizing for having negative opinions. And it really fucking sucks.

Im a bit nervous submitting this ask as usually I keep to myself.

I wanted to bring up, or start a discussion of the lack of listening given to us. If that makes sense. Im not sure if its a lack of consideration. But if someone non-black deems something we do as 'Not the right way' they will go on a rant to correct us as if their doing a favor.

The best example i have is washing chicken. At least where I grew up, I learned we mainly washed it before cooking beacuse we were given scraps. Not only that it wasnt uncommon in the past for food to be given to us that is 'off' or tamperd with, of course time has passed still its cultural.

Yet whenever someone non-black comes across it they immediately set into this correcting stance. Ive seen American and those from other countries do this. Its this condescending thing that assumes we

1. dont understand how things spread. They will rant about enzymes and bacteria as if their explaning a new concept to children

2. We dont clean things after. That the way were cooking is "Dirty" and that we need to be corrected, beacuse obviously we don't know and need someone to explain right?

A bit long, but I wanted to air out what ive seen with an example. Of course there are other things but its the first that pops into my head. This assumption that we dont know what were doing or talking about. And doubling down as if theres only one way to do something.

Tbh, I just don't argue with them. "You shouldn't wash your chicken" okay well I'm going to do so anyway. I'll clean my sink with bleach afterwards. 😐 What are you gonna do? Beat my ass? Not eat my cooking? So don't. I wasn't cooking for you anyway. Like it's not a conversation I have to have. I've got nothing to prove to them, nothing I have to change.

Shit, some of these people let animals lick them in the lips and stand on their countertops and put paws in their food, I don't wanna hear shit about me cleaning my chicken or not. I don't care. Argue with the wall 🤷🏾‍♀️ shit especially if you live in the US and they have slashed funding for the FDA and other organizations meant for safety. I'll do what I please.

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‘The Ghetto Tarot’: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:

Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.

The Black Nerd. A common character type, the nerd will always be very interested in all things nerdy: science, video games, mathematics, etc. In an continued effort to combat stereotypes, the Black Nerd will be lack athleticism, probably being asthmatic (the nerdiest of conditions). The Black Nerd will dress smartly, suspenders and bow ties. They’ll always talk smart too, using proper English with complex words.

Now, I don’t have a problem with a black character being a nerd, indeed black people are a people; we aren’t all the same and we all have varying personalities. The problem I have is that too often we see a distinct disconnect between Blackness and the Black Nerd. The Black Nerd doesn’t listen to hip hop or rap, only classical music. The Black Nerd only has white friends, the only other black characters are into not nerdy stuff. The Black Nerd never ever uses AAVE at any time in any context.

Well @dumbey, seems we’re in similar boats

Of course there are Black girl characters that are nerds. They just don't show up as often like other women nerd characters in media. Maybe because nerd/geek culture actively gatekeeps women out of these intellectual fields and/or fan spaces? Look at Childish Gambino and other nerds that throw a tantrum seeing Megan Thee Stallion into (the most mainstream) anime titles. That certainly will reflect on tv somehow someway🤷🏾‍♀️

But yeah, the Quirky Biracial Black Girl has been coming about a lot more lately. They are usually biracial because the idea of a monoracial Black girl into nerdy/alt/geeky interests doesn't sound realistic to writers. So clearly they have to be mixed with a nonblack identity to justify their quirkiness 🙄 8/10 they usually are mixed white cuz that's the only kind of mixed identity available these people can write. Or I guess its more accurate to say they can only write whiteness as that's the default in everything.

Also the reason Black nerd boys don't really face this treatment is cuz the industry still views dark skin as an inherently masculine trait. So it's fine for the boys to be darkskinned or just monoracially Black. The girls, however, gotta be lighter in comparison to still emphasize that whole they are out of ordinary, they're still feminine 😬

That's why I like shows like Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

A Black nerdy teenage girl who wheres her fro out with love. She's surrounded by a diverse group of friends and family. And she's got a unique nerdy geek side to her that some people don't really get, not even her friends. That's ok, she got friends who are into the same stuff as her, many of which are other Black women!

I felt a lot of societal pressure to have kids, and insisting that I hate them all and would murder them if possible was the only way to get certain people to back off.

My point is that rather than taking this out on all the grown folks who place this pressure onto you, you'd rather inflict harm onto a vulnerable group of people you know don't hold much societal power to protect themselves.

Which idk, the moment Black people express grievances/annoyance of white people for always wanting us to "save the world" for their learned helplessness, we're told that's wrong. We aren't socially allowed to be out here saying we want to inflict harm onto white people in hopes to scare them away.

No.

The concept of trying to reinterpret the song's meaning is exactly what I have an issue with.

"Isn't She Lovely" is a Black song, made by a Black man for his Black daughter. It is a song about Black joy, about Black fatherhood and beautiful Black baby girls. It is about Black people. It is for Black people.

Yet again, the issue is not with gender, but it is about race. To take that song out of its original context and rehash it into something whiter is what I take the most offense to, it's completely disrespectful and it doesn't even pay homage to the original culture. It's a form of whitewashing that is incredibly sinister, because it often follows along the logic of "wanting everything to be for everybody".

But you can't possibly partake in other cultures if you do not understand those cultures first, if you don't take the time to listen and be generous. To them, the song is just a song. Like most facets of the show, they take these brilliant works and strip them down to scraps, then try to spin that into something brilliant by telling people to look at the "abstract" and what isn't there. Then people go and theorize and completely overwrite the original intention, they erase the meaning, and it's very painful to witness.

White people need to take a crash course on gentrification history if they out here thinking playing music is "noise pollution"

But also these guys celebrating for more policing that targets marginalized groups is not surprising

I'm nice to kids when I have to interact with them (to the point it annoys me afterwards because what the hell was that, that was out of character for me,)

But like people can say to other adults "god I hate when there's a loud-ass kid being a problem in the middle of a fucking grocery store" y'know?

However, I dont think that's what the original post was about, lemme explain: even if you aren't going up to children and being rude to them (thankfully lol!) by engaging with the idea that children are inherently annoying and that being loud is a burden on general society, you engage with the idea that children are burdens rather than say, actual functioning members of society who are consistently marginalized and abused. Make sense?

And, sorry, calling children "functioning members of society" is funny to me... isn't the whole point of raising a kid to teach them to become a functioning member of society?

Now, my opinion on the best way to fix societal problems would require a lot more cooperation than anyone is capable of, so who knows if anything will actually get better ever,