#Anti-blackness

[cistematicchaos]

The Atlantic publishing a paper saying that the genocide in the Congo [which has killed and displaced MILLIONS of Black folks] is a win for climate change is so, so dehumanizing and anti-Black.

If the genocide of Black folks, of African folks anywhere around the globe is a "win" for climate change in your book, then your climate change is white supremacy and when you run out of Black and Brown folks to sacrifice for your comfort, there will be nothing left worth saving.

#white supremacy #anti-Blackness #racism #sorry im so upset abt this fr #Congo #Free Congo #Save Congo #Genocide #climate change #environmentalism #chaos is speaking #/\ for any whites worrying abt this #dont #we're not going to let it get to that point #we'll go Nat Turner on your ass before we let that shit happen #TRUST me #i may be a crippled bitch #but im still a bitch and i know my shit

[thisismisogynoir]

Again, this is for ONLY Black people to answer! (and no, I'm not adding an "I'm not Black but I want to see results" button, move on and accept that not everything is going to be catered towards you!!!) If you are non-Black then you are free to reblog but do not add your two-cents, my finger is hovering over the block button I am not in the mood for these games.

#polls #racism #anti-blackness #misogynoir

[sweetmage]

The recent announcements regarding Larian no longer doing big updates and passing the rights to the characters back to WotC has basically all but killed my already waning interest in BG3 atm. I don't care about DLC or anything like that, I care that they did not fix their one and only black companion. I care that their past two games prior to this have had NO black companions and that the one that does have one he gets changed due to them taking feedback from racists then gets sidelined and abandoned. I care that I and many others have endured constant racism and anti-blackness in this fandom for month which was validated and emboldened by Larian's silence on the matter, mockery/sexualization of Wyll's story with Mizora (his white woman slaver and abuser), and their refusal to address or even acknowledge the very large and vocal feedback they've gotten. Sure, they could drop a huge patch unexpectedly despite everything they have recently said to the contrary (no more character stuff, no more story content, etc.) and I am more than willing to delete this post and eat my hat if so, but that is absolutely not the way it sounds at all in the recent statements. They have yet to even be bothered to address it, which would at least be something even if they don't fix it. I get wanting to move on, but the fact that after 6+ patches and 20+ hotfixes they never made time or effort for their one black companion before throwing in the towel is frankly disgusting. Time and time again, media creators show that black people and characters are not worth the same time and effort as other characters/fans and that hurts. This game, its characters, and the friends I made in this fandom are all very important and special to me and it's likely that after some time to process recover I will feel up to engaging with it again. Absolutely no shame and judgement to anyone still playing it, I genuinely hope you are having fun! I hope to again one day as well. I just personally have no desire to interact with it right now because, as a black person so used harsh fandom treatment and media that doesn't care about us, I let myself believe this time would be different and I was burned in the end like usual but even worse because they were taking active feedback and piling more new content on to their white characters.

It's been really hard for me to put this into words and I am very sad about it so this is probably the only thing I will say on the matter. Do not bother sending further feedback to Larian as it is useless now. But DO continue to make fan content to fill the gaps and continue to address anti-blackness in your fandom communities. Peace and love ✌🏾💖

#larian critical #fandom racism #anti-blackness #jun rambles

[justanisabelakinnie]

"We need more strong, fleshed out, well-developed female characters of color!" you bitches couldn't even handle the Madrigal women.

#encanto #isabela madrigal #isabela my beloved #isabela is best girl #dolores madrigal #mirabel madrigal #luisa madrigal #pepa madrigal #julieta madrigal #alma madrigal #women of encanto #fandom sexism #fandom misogyny #fandom androcentrism #fandom racism #fandom anti-blackness #fandom misogynoir #sexism #misogyny #androcentrism #racism #anti-blackness #misogynoir #double standards #camilo is overrated #bruno is overrated #you couldn't even handle #feminism #intersectional feminism #my post

[genderkoolaid]

TW: Description of fatal violence against a Black trans man

San Francisco's DA has released the video of Banko Brown's murder. His murderer is not facing any charges because of the claim it was in self-defense, hence why protestors have been demanding the video be released.

Banko, who was unhoused and struggled to find housing as a Black trans man, was accused of shoplifting- although his friends disagree with this (although, in my opinion, poor people should be allowed to take whatever the fuck they need & security guards are bastards too). The security guard who killed Banko, Michael Earl-Wayne Anthony, claims that he threatened to stab him, and later lunged at him, which is why he was shot.

The released video shows Banko walking quickly towards the door before being physically stopped, and then aggressively attacked- punched in the face, thrown around, and forced to the ground, all while trying to get out of the store. After he is free, he grabs his bag and begins walking backwards out the door facing the security guard, who is following him as he tries to escape.

Anthony then shot him. Because he "feared for his life."

Civil rights lawyer John Burris said: "It seems to me the officer was being aggressive, physically controlling, and beating up on Banko, who ultimately broke loose and went out the door. He turned and was facing him, and he was shot. I haven’t seen any evidence Banko was lunging toward the officer. It seems the use of deadly force was unconscionable and unnecessary" and calls into question the allegation that Banko threatened to stab the officer.

Black unhoused lives matter. Black transmasc lives matter. Donate to his family's GoFundMe for his funeral.

#m. #banko brown #examples of transandrophobia #anti-blackness #racism #transandrophobia #transmisandry #anti transmasculinity #transphobia #blm #anti black violence #tdor

[the-cat-and-the-birdie]

Kinda sick of the racism from nonblacks (i say nonblacks because it ain't just the whites tho it's mainly them!) in the spiderverse fandom because why does black ppl centering themselves in fiction (you know cuz we never can have ANYTHING) bother them so much??

"Hobie would choose a white girl over you" "why does miles have to be with someone black" "why does he always have to have a black reader" like Ummmm DO Y'ALL NOT HEAR HOW DUMB AND IGNORANT YOU SOUND?

We gotta gatekeep the black characters in this fandom until ppl know how to act right and stop getting besides themselves

PREACH!!!!!! CAUSE LIKE -- People out here are really disturbed that they *checks notes* were reminded black people exist? black people being found specifically attractive in a way whiteness is CONSTANTLY.

Anti-Blackness, Hobie, & The Black!Reader -

[A SHORT rant about people who have an issue with Black!Readers]

I ALWAYS find it where when people beef with Black people who want to date other Black people.

Because it's 100% racism.

If you think that a Black person dating only Black people is wrong - Anti-blackness is probably the root.

Just kidding it is the root its literally the only solution and explanation hehehe

Because as a trans person - when someone says they're T4T, everyone is fine with that.

Cis people can understand that they will never understand the trans experience, and that trans people may be attracted and want relationships with people who can understand on a personal level.

But when a Black Person say they're 'Black4Black' suddenly that's wrong?? We can't do that??

It's like non-whites cannot grasp that anti-black racism is a very VERY specific experience that we deal with all our lives and we may want partners that can not only support us but relate too. Partners we don't have to explain race shit too.

No- blackness is an experience that HAS to be available to them. Black people's experiences, minds and bodies HAVE to be available for there consumption or we're in the wrong.

We are either there to be consumed (like Hobie is) or ignored (like the Black!Reader is).

All my life I've seen the default OC and default reader be a white person. Readers that don't speak AAVE, that show no attempt at culture outside the 'normal' heteronormative American family.

And suddenly we try to change that for ourselves and that's not cool.

Also - people who say that about Hobie are just outright uneducated.

Hobie is from 1978.

Racial Discrimination in the UK was outlawed in 1965. Regardless of whether you think he's 16 or 19 - Hobie Brown grew up under racial segregation from ages 3-6.

He grew up seeing it - experiencing racism. Living with and being raised by and surrounded by a community of older black people who lived under segregation.

And even after the bill - Racist attitudes would still be surrounding him realistically speaking.

HE'S NOT FROM NOW.

Acting like Hobie has no opinions on that, or experiences, or coping mechanisms or TRAUMA from that - is fucked up.

That's black trauma LOOK AT IT.

So YEAH, A guy who grew up under segregation and a police state would have trauma from it.

But they (racists) wanna sidestep that.

They'll talk all day about Hobie's police related trauma - but not the race thing......okay. Okay, no it's fine. I'm fine.

The idea that Hobie might have unsavory experiences with race makes them uncomfortable. The idea that Hobie would seek out Black Spaces to GET AWAY from white people - makes them foam at the mouth.

Not all white people are racist - but a white person can never understand anti-black racism from a personal view the way Hobie or I or you do.

That's just a fact.

But the idea that there's a special outlet we alone understand about Hobie, and connect with him through, they dislike that.

Anti-Blackness. It's everywhere.

YOINK!! I'M TAKING HOBIE BACK TO THE ANCESTORS. LETS GO.

#spiderman #atsv #spider man #marvel #across the spiderverse #hobie brown #spider punk #spiderpunk #Racism #anti-blackness #hobie x black!reader #hobie brown x black!reader #hobie x reader #hobie brown x reader #atsv analysis #antiblackness #discrimination

[cinamun]

#istg #sometimes it feels like I am the only one calling out anti-blackness on simblr #its wild to me #y'all will have links to the shit and still be like #well.... i need another opinion #or there's two sides #there are NEVER two sides when it comes to #anti-blackness #periodt #i hate finding out that y'all still associate with dreamstatesims #after all them receipts from last year #and then y'all wonder why you cant see my blog anymore #smh #ignore me

[pyaasa]

met police shot and killed an unarmed black man 3 days ago. this is what should be getting national coverage instead, but unfortunately now it’s going to be completely forgotten and ignored

#police brutality #anti-blackness

[newsfromstolenland]

A city councillor in Pickering is calling herself a “modern-day slave” after council voted to dock her pay for 30 days following an investigation by the city’s integrity commissioner.

Coun. Lisa Robinson made the comment in a post on Facebook on Tuesday.

Robinson’s remarks followed a ruling by the integrity commissioner which found that her decision to identify three citizens by name in a Facebook post in which she announced that her annual Halloween event for charity would be cancelled amounted to a “bully tactic” which showed “blatant disregard for the wellbeing of others.”

Council voted to have me work for free for the next 30 days for a ‘sarcastic remark’ on my personal FB post. I am now a modern day slave,” Robinson said in the Tuesday post.

Full article

Someone needs to explain to this white girl that having a month's pay docked for encouraging harassment of citizens she represents as a city councillor is not the same as fucking slavery.

Also there already is modern-day slavery in Canada, Lisa, and it's the prison system. Slavery is not you losing 30 days' pay for being an asshole.

#this is so fucked dude #cdnpoli #racism #anti-blackness #slavery #slavery mention #lisa robinson #pickering #ontario #canada #racism tw #anti-blackness tw #slavery tw #slavery mention tw #mine

[cistematicchaos]

So a 17 year old Black teen, mentally disabled (Autism, ADHD, ODD, IED, MDD, PTSD and anxiety) and severely bullied by racists, is facing up to 30 years in prison for attacking a white teacher who stole his Nintendo (despite her being aware of EXTENSIVE rules in place telling her that doing so would cause a possibly violent meltdown)...

#Anti-Blackness #racism #ableism #actually autistic #ASD #adhd #PTSD #disability #disability rights #chaos is speaking #i wanna cry #its so horrible

[thisismisogynoir]

Nobody is talking about how outright racist some AIs are. I remember when I used to enjoy looking at AI art as a concept, before realizing how wrong it is, and how so many of those AIs outright whitewashed Black and dark-skinned brown characters. I remember this one AI making Sakura Okami from Danganronpa not only light-skinned, but skinny and without muscles. I even saw an AI just now say that no African country starts with the letter K. Umm...Kenya??? As a Black woman, it just makes me hate AI even more. Though who tf is really surprised.

#fuck ai #racism #anti-blackness #and that's not even getting into the racist people who used ai to whitewash black ariel

[hussyknee]

I just want to make one thing very clear. Black and brown people, especially Muslims right now, don't owe white people for your allyship in racial justice. Not even those who are themselves systemically marginalized in some way. Not white Jews, not white queers, not white disabled, not white working class, not white poor.

Whiteness is the most lethal kind of oppression because it built the current colonial capitalist, imperialist world order. Every white person benefits from and is complicit in its systems in some way because white supremacy is global. Whatever marginalization has white people in it can be and is easily weaponized against the mellanated. When charged with your racist, exclusionary and oppressive behaviour you hold up Black and brown people of the same marginalizations as tokens. This is the only time they are ever visible; more often than not you profit off their labour, hoard their gains, throw them under the bus and make them part of your iconography for liberal progress points once they're dead and have no inconvenient opinions about your conduct.

This is why it's very hard for Black and brown people to take accusations of bigotry towards you in good faith. We also have a duty of care towards others but more often than not it feels like you want us to do what you want while holding a knife to our necks. Even when you don't do it directly, you issue demands like "if you don't do x and y you clearly don't care about my people and deserve the worst!!!" without considering for a moment that the full brunt of that policing will always fall on Black and brown people, because punitive justice exercises itself first and foremost on the vulnerable. If your demands for allyship carry disproportionate punishment for Black and brown people should we refuse, you're just on some power trip and never needed our help in the first place. This also obfuscates the needs and disenfranchisement of Jewish, queer, poor, disabled BIPOC and Global South people, especially because, without racial justice, few of your gains will ever materialise in their lives. It's always trickle down liberation for the rest of us.

Your allyship is supposed to be the work of conscience, a recognition of injustice and a drive towards privilege equal to your own. For white people, it's an individual reparation on your part. It is not an act of kindness, or benevolence, or a transaction that must be repaid in kind. The worst of us deserve the same rights the worst of you already have. That's the meaning of equality. If you're willing to let us get fired, deported, or brutally murdered for bad behaviour, then not only were you never an ally, you were also just waiting for the opportunity to use that weapon you claim you never wanted. There is no justice in an asymmetry of power.

#white supremacy #so many white people on here crying about antisemitism trying not to say ''black people and muslims'' with their whole chest lmaooo #there's no equality of oppression here sunshine that's why we're watching Muslims and black people get genocided on an industrial scale rn #if i can stand seeing dead and bleeding Arab babies repeatedly dehumanized by people with the ukrainian flag in their bio #and still not want ukrainians to suffer the same fate or platform people who spread russian propaganda #then the rest of you can also shut the fuck up #unfortunately whiteness rarely coincides with conscience #racism #anti-blackness #antisemitism #islamophobia #queerphobia #homophobia #transphobia #ableism #classism #western imperialism #global north #colonization #racial justice #lgbtqia #knee of huss

[positively--speculative]

It's really unfortunate that a number of people (mostly white people) in the IWTV fandom here on Tumblr seem to have this watered down view of the gothic genre as "cool, sexy monster stuff." I mean, yeah. That's *part* of it, but that's like, a very high school Hot Topic view of it. I mean, nothing wrong with liking the stuff you did in high school or Hot Topic, but it shows a lack of a deeper understanding.

I know I've ragged on Anne Rice a lot here, but I honestly think that this is partly her responsibility. Did she craft interesting characters? Yes. Did she give them flaws? Yes. But does she do a good job of challenging them? Not really. In fact, the way she frames then makes it seem like they're not flaws at all. I can accept the fact that slavery was normalized in Louis time, but I cannot accept the idea if no one in the story challenging it. It is not unreasonable for Daniel to be attracted to Louis during the interview, but at the very least, he should be uncomfortable with his attraction to him. Sometimes bad people are still attractive. That's an uncomfortable truth. But AR doesn't handle it this way. She never addresses it.

So, it's really not hard to understand why her fandom carries such limited views on uncomfortable matter, because her writing didn't challenge them to feel uncomfortable with their attraction to Louis. To Lestat. To even fucking Marius (who I won't get into here. Other people have already written about him here and have done so better than I can). AR made the sexy vampire books, and her fans just go along with all the awful things they do because, hey, they're monsters and it's cool because they live outside human expectations of morality (even though Louis was awful before becoming a monster). AR presents shock value, but doesn't address what's shocking. Her fandom, in fact, seems to take pride in illustrating no shock over what is shocking. This, in my opinion, is an illustration of *failure* to create an effective gothic story.

The show does a much better job, in my opinion, at presenting something gothic. I, a Black biracial woman of the audience, should not be attracted to Lestat. But I *am.* I shouldn't be attracted to Louis, but I *am.* I shouldn't be looking at their family dynamic with Claudia in her earlier days as a vampire through heart-shaped lenses, but I *do.* And it's uncomfortable. It's supposed to be. And I think Daniel's character does a good job of bringing the audience back into the horrible reality of the situation and causes us to check ourselves.

And I think white fandom really does a disservice to Jacob Anderson *AND* Sam Reid by trying to argue with Black fandom over the subject of race. Racism is a central theme in this version of the story. But they don't want us to talk about it, because they're uncomfortable with it. They'd rather pretend it doesn't exist and doesn't need to be discussed. But it's *supposed* to make them uncomfortable. They're just not used to seeing the benefits of being challenged, because AR never did. And unfortunately, they're missing out in a very fulfilling part of enjoying the story because they want to keep themselves in a little bubble where they can pat each other on their backs for not being shocked by shocking things and never growing as people.

#Gothic genre #Anne Rice #Iwtv #Iwtv amc #amc interview with the vampire #Jacob Anderson #Sam Reid #Fandom racism #Anti-Blackness #Loustat #Lestat #lestat de lioncourt #Interview with the Vampire #Literary Criticism #louis de pointe du lac

[fiercynn]

i think i just need to stop putting as much effort into calling out otw/ao3's bullshit. it's not like i'm ever going to stop being mad about their racism & anti-blackness & zionism & bad finances & mistreatment of volunteers, but i've spent SO MUCH TIME AND EFFORT talking about it over the years (primarily on twitter until more recently here) and it just burns me out like nothing else because of how futile it feels. fandom is so ready to excuse otw/ao3 of literally anything and like, for fucking what? so you get your privileged fantasy of "escapism" in your fanworks, despite the cost to others? and like for so long i was talking about this shit with the hopes that it would help make otw better, not trying to tear it down. but in the past year i've lost even the infinitesimal fraction of hope i ever had for otw actually changing.

idk. me saying this is part of a decades-long lineage of fans of color, particularly black fans, who have been driven out or burnt out by racism and bigotry in fandom, not least stitch, who has been harassed off of ever social media platform they had a voice on for being one of the most brilliant fan scholars to fight against anti-blackness and racism in fandom. but it didn't start with stitch and it won't end with stitch because fandom is, and always has been, far more committed to bigotry than to community.

i'll never stop calling stuff out when i see it but putting time and effort into trying to create change at otw feels not only horrible, but also harmful to my work in the many, many other places i'm trying to make change, so i really should just keep my attention there.

anyway if you agree with all this please support stitch and their work through their website stitch's media mix (including their patreon linked there), and read and sign dhobi ki kutti's fanworkers international coalition statement of solidarity with palestine

#this is as much a reminder/statement for myself as it is for anyone else lol #i've thought this many times but i feel like if i post it publicly i might start actually committing to it? idk #ao3 #archive of our own #organization for transformative works #otw #anti-blackness #zionism #fandom racism

[jyndor]

hey while we are talking about how shitty the us has always been about apartheid, did you know that a cia officer named donald rickard tipped off the apartheid south africa regime to nelson mandela's whereabouts in 1962 which led to his 27 year imprisonment? fun fact right? from the axios article linked above:

it's just important to always remember that liberal politicians have to dragged kicking and screaming into progress. and then we had the gall to not remove him from the terrorist watch list until 2008.

#nelson mandela #racism #apartheid #us imperialism #settler colonialism #anti-Blackness #south africa #anti-communism btw is steeped in racism and im not even really a communist but im also not ignorant #not always - some communities really did experience horrible oppression from communist regimes but most of the anti commie shit is racism #white supremacy

[allthecanadianpolitics]

An Ontario policing tribunal has found a Toronto police officer guilty of discreditable conduct for pointing a firearm at two Black teens who were then arrested outside the Toronto housing complex where they lived more than a decade ago, overturning the decision of another tribunal which found him not guilty.

The decision relates to an incident dating back to November 21, 2011.

Four teens aged 15-16, two of them brothers, had just left one of the friend’s homes where they had been playing video games and were walking to a mentoring program at a nearby community centre in the Lawrence Manor area, according to the proceedings.

While the teens were still walking through the Toronto Community Housing complex on Neptune Drive where they lived, two officers pulled into the parking lot in an unmarked police vehicle.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

(More details from the article below)

The officers — Adam Lourenco and Scharnil Pais- were assigned to the since disbanded Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS), which placed officers in communities with high rates of crime, and sought to reduce crime in part, by enforcing trespassing laws.

Within 30 seconds of their approach, Lourenco had separated one of the teens — identified only as B.A. and had placed him under arrest for not identifying himself.

The officer claimed that the teen spat at him and swore at him, further giving him grounds to arrest B.A. for assaulting an officer. The teen denied that he swore or spot at the officer.

Two of the other teens moved toward Lourenco in response to the arrest and asked him what he was doing. Pais yelled for them to stop and Lourenco then drew his firearm and pointed it at the teens, immediately re-holstering when they stopped moving.

The three other teens were ordered to sit on the ground and were subsequently arrested for assaulting police.

#cdnpoli #canadian politics #canadian news #canada #canadian #ontario #cops #police #racial profiling #racism #anti-blackness #anti-black racism #toronto #toronto police #cops tw #police tw #racial profiling tw #racism tw #anti-blackness tw #anti-black racism tw