So... I figured before BTS officially has their comeback to give the history behind Howard University and other HBCUs, but mostly Howard. A lot of fans are fighting against black kpop fans and black people in general over the animation.
I’ve been seeing people say that they wished more Black/African Americans knew about the Spirits, Deities, and folklore figures of our pantheon, so I complied a list from my research. Most people don’t know we have them or don’t recognize them due to accessibility of knowledge.
I'm not going to lie, a lot of you non-Black artists reject perfectly good advice on drawing Black people because you value your ego as an artist more than properly representing a group of people you don't belong to. You buy into stereotypes and mistake that for artistic freedom.
“People get used to anything. The less you think about your oppression, the more your tolerance for it grows. After a while, people just think oppression is the normal state of things. But to become free, you have to be acutely aware of being a slave.” -Assata Shakur
2spirit figures we should know the names of:
left: We’wha, struck up friendships w/ white ppl who thought her to be a cis woman in 1880's DC, met Grover Cleveland, walked back to reservation.
right: Rick "Rickey Dean" Douglas- native teen present for stonewall riots
Trying not to be bitter but Africans have warned yall about China’s presence on the continent for awhile now + how it’s another form of exploitation on the continent for years now like the toxic spill in a river wasn’t enough or the cover up? Okay
I know he was innocent and I suppose that matters but here’s what gets lost in that discourse YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO KILL THE GUILTY EITHER! Stealing is NOT a death penalty crime. We have to resensitize ourselves to DUE PROCESS for Black people too! There’s a process…
The fact that an 14 year old boy was RACIALLY profiled the minute he walked into the store, was accused of stealing water that he DID NOT TAKE, left the store camly get chased 130 yards by two GROWN Asian men and shot in the back get off not guilty!!!I’m so sorry Cyrus Belton💔
you lost me at saying minstrel shows were never acts of hatred what the fuck is that ahistorical take when the entire point of minstrelsy was to dehumanize black people with the use of caricatures to justify slavery, yt supremacy, and later, jim crow
to say that transgenderism is exclusively white culture when arguably the most important trans activist of all time was a black woman is on a whole different level of stupidity
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