Shame on the people hounding creatingBlackcharacters and any other Black individual who called out the anti-Blackness in the TADC situation.
The “punchline” in a slur for those outside of the victimised demographic is the shock value due to the significance of it.
They knew it was bad the first instance it showed up, and they brought it back up again to laugh at something STILL linked to the significant anti-Blackness today, and then chucked a bandaid on it and doubled down when they were caught.
No matter how “old” that situation is, what they did was anti-Black. That was racist. That cannot and should not be defended, and every Black individual has every right to call it out and expect the boycott of the creators and the production.
CreatingBlackcharacters has addressed this perfectly to call in other non-Black users to stand in solidarity. there is no statute of limitations on racism nor slur usage.
“It’s just fandom”, this type of behaviour endangers Black people from participating in what they enjoy and the spaces and communities surrounding it. Everytime something like this happens and it’s allowed to slide without much backlash, it becomes normalised + a whole group of racists are more emboldened to do it too because they know they can get away with it EVEN under the public limelight.
Black people as the affected demographic should not be expected to forgive anyone or be expected to show grace for this.
