When it comes to mixed and biracial characters…
Why is it that when a character is Black x non-Black, the kids always look completely ambiguous or whitewashed to all hell? Now, before y'all come for me, yes, I know mixed kids IRL can be completely light-skinned or favor one side phenotypically. What I'm talking about is how media never shows the other side. We rarely, if ever, see mixed dark-skinned girls or mixed kids who actually retain clear Afro features and hair textures.
Take Luz from The Owl House. She's supposed to be Afro-Latina… but when you look at her and her parents, you can see my confusion. The Black traits are completely dialed back.
It’s the same pattern everywhere. Look at Ginny from Ginny & Georgia or Mary Anne from The Baby-Sitters Club reboot. It's always the same hyper-light, ambiguous look with zero tighter textures or Afro features. Even in cartoons like Fairly OddParents, they'll give a character a dark-skinned Black mom but make the daughter look completely white with blonde hair and blue eyes.
Why is it that when a character is mixed with Black, those Black traits are the absolute first things to be erased? It really feels purposeful, doesn't it??
