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White supremacy doesn’t view black people as human either. It views us as monkeys and animals. So should the black community include monkeys as well?

Why does white supremacy dictate black peoples identity to this extreme? Even other nations in Africa that were colonized by white people don’t view themselves this way.

Why do black men get to keep their manhood but black women’s womanhood is stripped? White supremacy emasculates black men too, so why are black men still viewed as men?

Picking and choosing white supremacy rhetoric to fit your viewpoints is not going to turn out well for you.

I feel like this needs to be said for some black women, but attraction≠womanhood. Just because a white person isn’t attracted to you, doesn’t mean you’re less of a woman.

I really don’t like seeing people go “finally the Black girl gets to be the cute/feminine/soft one/the one who falls in love/the one who gets to be carefree and cheerful and quirky!” and the character is a lightskin biracial woman, often half-white.

Like I’m sorry but I really can’t celebrate it as a “win” for Black female representation, when mixed Black women are always already treated as the feminine standard for Black women. They are already seen as the more acceptable and palatable version of a Black girl, and what Black girls are expected to look like in order to be considered beautiful or sympathetic or worthy of love. Mixed women were always the exception to Black women being deemed too masculine, too aggressive, too sexual, too ghetto, too vulgar, etc., so I just can’t and won’t accept it as a “win” for Black girls when they get to be seen as beautiful, innocent, sweet, the love interest, the princess, etc., because they are already the beauty standard for Black women because they’re closer to whiteness/less unambiguously Black; I’m not saying that it’s not nice to have these characters, or that I’m incapable of loving, connecting, or even relating to them, but I don’t see them as my “soft and girly Black girl” representation, because they don’t represent me and never will. Mixed race women will never experience the same level of masculinization, hypersexualization, and degradation that Black women do, and that’s a fact, so unless I see an unambiguously Black woman with darker skin who actually looks like me in these types of feminine roles, then I won’t force myself to feel represented by it or count it as a “win”, and I shouldn’t have to, either. Just because those characters are accepted doesn’t mean that Black women are accepted; they are the exception and not the rule.

The same is true even in real life as well. “I’m so glad that HYBE let the Black girl be the pretty girl of the group!” Bitch, tf is you talmbout, biracial women being the stand-in for pretty Black women because they’re seen as prettier than Black women is literally already the norm, not the fucking exception. It is not revolutionary and never has been. They would never give a fully Black, darker-skinned, unambiguously Black woman the “visual” role, because Black features are seen as ugly and masculine to them. To them, Manon is pretty because even though she is Black, she has enough adjacence to whiteness to be “safe” and pretty enough in a white person’s eyes. Again, biracial women are seen as the exception to the general rule that Black women are unattractive, rough, and unfeminine. The only “pretty” Black women are the ones who make up for it by being half-white or any other race. Biracial women being placed on a pedestal will not and never trickle down to Black women, and it is fucking clueless and naïve to think that it will. It only further reinforces the notion that Black women are only pretty as long as their Blackness is diluted in some way, because unambiguous Blackness is insufficient, ugly, and masculine. For God’s sake, Lara Raj is not even Black, and she receives the most hate from racists for being dark-skinned and looking “manly”(even by Indian men!!!), so imagine how much worse a fully Black, darkskin girl would be treated.