Does Anyone Have The Guts To Shut Me Up?

@hazyskies genuinely floored by how succinctly and accurately youve characterized this issue. yes, youre completely right. the reason this happened is because people had an out to ignore the blackness in fall out boy, and the fact that they couldnt with gym class heroes is exactly why they experienced so much vitriol and abuse. this obviously isnt exclusive to fall out boy, if white people can make bipoc (and black people specifically) out to be "one of the good ones" and distance them from their blackness in any way, they will. even that idiot in my comments who insisted poly fucking styrene didnt talk about race as much as i do, if they can ignore the fact that the artist is black, they will, and if they cant, they will just ignore the artist (or worse).

#op please feel free to tell me to delete these tags as a white person but #it makes me so upset to see how pete did and still does make music influenced by blackness and yet people refuse to see that #bc his lyrics are influenced by his race! no matter what shitty white 'fans' have to say #i genuinely think that the medias consistent whitewashing of him has made it easier for white people to distance his race with his music #this i think is especially true with petes treatment vs travies #bc the scene saw travie as more 'ghetto' and saw gch as 'not punk enough' #since pete was/is being so heavily whitewashed white fans could ignore his blackness #but they refused to listen to gch bc they couldnt as easily separate the band from blackness and black culture#(this is not to say there wasnt a whitewashing issue with travie as well) #and even white fans who seem to acknowledge petes race they still act like it doesnt matter when it does! #every song or poem hes ever written is inherently influenced by his race#and people who say that it isnt or choose to ignore it are Not fob fans in my book #pete is black! hes always been black and he always will be! and his music shows that! #either acknowledge petes race or get the fuck out of here #anyways op if you want me to delete these just let me know! #fob #fall out boy

Against Me’s Laura Jane Grace burns birth certificate on stage in North Carolina  

The band turned the concert into a protest over the trans-bathroom law recently approved by the North Carolina legislature.

Laura Jane Grace, Against Me!’s singer and guitarist, talks about her lyrics to ‘The Ocean’

Kinda wished I had typed the text instead of drawn it but too late now