#colorism

and in Spanish speaking circles online they sharing gore pictures of dead African babies in online chats so much it has a label named “BND”? Another Black teen was murdered recently by an Asian American store owner convinced he was stealing despite putting items back. He shot him in the back.

yall dont deserve nothing from Black people in any part of the diaspora, irdc. this shit makes me so angry but the demands for an expectation of actionable organizing and dismantling of the white supremacist project that is the US is laid at our collective feet and no one else’s is so crazy to me. how are Black ppl supposed to generate trust for nonblack ppl that hasn’t been demonstrated in a sustained, recent, manner, without us having to force the rest of the world to see us?

Idpol is divisive until it’s time to self adopt the moniker of the Global South and that often doesn’t include & backseats Black African exploitation/extraction. it’s hella transparent how nonblack leftists only mention Sudan, Congo, Somalia, etc. as afterthoughts to their awareness and solidarity posts focusing on Palestine but feel entitled to call Black leftists “zog slaves” for not making dedicated media to the issue they feel the most important, regardless if to these Black leftists making Black issues their focus and niche.

This is what I said regarding Adrienne’s response to her merch getting whitewashed:

This is because of different people in the notes making jokes, and assuming it to not be as serious or not specifically about whitewashing. I wanted to help clarify and was not meant to be hateful. Adrienne’s response was to block me and only me so that my post wouldn’t show up at all in the notes for other people. I wonder why that is:

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.