if you wanna learn about digital blackface, here’s a video about it. fair warning there is depictions of blackface and mentions of racism https://t.co/Ti5UIBlQuE
begging you guys to get your heads out of your asses, a celebrity isn’t going to praise you for defending their shitty actions, the only thing you’re accomplishing is upsetting your moots
november very much felt like we were having to take on a teacher approach and talk to everyone very delicately or else we would be labeled as the angry black woman, and it was so fucking draining
i feel like the reason some ppl are so against the black remus hc is bc oftentimes in media when the love interest is black, they’re a light skin black person, so black remus being a dark skin man doesn’t fit into their narrative of what a black love interest is or should be
the anti blackness in school is honestly so disgusting bc i vividly remember in my sophomore year being the only black person in class & trying to explain why saying the n-slur was bad & having the whole class attack me https://t.co/xvFOcGwBuA
i also tried to explain kaepernick kneeling & what the protest stood for, & the entire class proceeded to yell about how i was “anti-america” & they couldn’t believe i said that bc they thought i was “one of the good black people,” i was nearly in tears
the treatment of black people in stem is specifically why i dropped out of pursuing compsci, constantly getting talked down to and looked over was too disheartening https://t.co/xvFOcGwBuA
the thing i don’t think white ppl get is how not representing poc in media affects us, like growing up and not seeing myself in any sort of media made me believe that i didn’t belong in forms of literature or movies https://t.co/xvFOcGwBuA
every month poc creators in marauders twt are having to constantly make educational threads and having to restate to stop discriminating against us, and every single time we’re ignored