#black blake

Ruby being Autistic and using her headphones for music stimming

Pyrrha being a post-op trans girl who suffers from dysphoria still

Penny also being Autistic

Ren being asexual to add some fucking clear sexual diversity to the show

Sun is not a ‘dashing renegade who cares for Blake’ - He’s just a stalking creep who loves his hard cock more than his entire team

Weiss can sing, but prefers to play the piano because Winter taught it to her

Yang is Pansexual but far prefers women

BLAKE IS FUCKING BLACK

Weiss had the biggest crush on Pyrrha and that was why she was all over her in the beginning of S1

We all know of the Black Blake Headcanon that floats around, yes?

Okay, so why is it okay for the fandom to do that, but if Monty and Miles and Kerry had written Blake as black, you’d all be screaming about how “PoC aren’t all bad” and how “the media needs to stop painting them in bad light”?

I mean, she used to be a terrorist, so while she’s the personification of the prejudices against people of color, wouldn’t making her a person of color paint them in a bad light by basically showing that all people of color are terrorists (which they aren’t).

And let’s not forget the flack Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers got because Zack Taylor was a black man who was the Black Ranger, and Trini Kwan was a Vietnamese woman who was the Yellow Ranger.

Isn’t it the same in this case? It’s racist to have the black character be a representation of the color black.

And I agree with the basic idea that no form of racial prejudice should be tolerated, but this is simply and clearly not a case of racial prejudice. There is a world of difference between taking one of a few non-racist portrayals of a non-white character (let's say Emerald Sustrai) and turning them white, and taking a white character (let's say Blake Belladonna) and turning them black.

The difference is that in most situations, that character of color will be one of the few, whereas the white character is one of the many. I happen to believe that if your gender, sexuality, race, religion, etc. is underrepresented, you have the right to ignore details of the canon and take representation from your favorite characters. 

Basically, you can headcanon what you want, but you should be responsible and not erase an underrepresented trait that probably many people are grateful for (like Emerald being a kickass woman of color). 

Fictional worlds often don't resemble the real world, because the people in charge only put in who they want, which often results in a straight, cis, white, allo, dyadic, Christian/atheistic world. In the real world, there are gay and bi and pan people, trans and nonbinary people, black and Korean and Native American people, asexual and aromantic people, intersex people, Jewish and Muslim and Hindu people, and many, many more kinds of people, and they all deserve respect and good representation. 

Whitewashing a character is undoing representation. Making a character black or nonbinary or otherkin or autistic is trying to correct a flaw in the media.