#I am black

[official-oshun]

a lot of people both in real life and in fandom spaces don’t seem to understand what transracial adoption is, let alone normal adoption, and how it absolutely is a family formation. It’s not a vague “found family” without labels, but instead it is a family akin to blood.

and please, if you would:

stop calling canon adoption in media “found family” 

stop assuming adoption can’t be done by ppl bio related to the adoptee

stop assuming family needs to look alike, in real life and in fiction

stop using the “they are adopted” to explain why your ships is “normal”

stop assuming people who look “different” that are participating in culture festivals aren’t related to the cultural. ex: that black person you see participating in the krakowiak could be mixed or transracially adopted by a polish couple and connected to polish traditions. it’s not cultural appropriation if it is your culture.

[trixiedjinn]

excuse me a moment-

Nobody white in history has ever done anything.

They're actually always francophones, or Italian, or Scottish, or Irish, or something.

White people do not exist.

Not just in a, "race/ethnicity is a social construct," type of way. Literally.

"White" is akin to an empire political state, maliciously absorbing ethnicities, cultures, "races," to make itself seem strong. Explicitly, arbitrarily, created to consolidate sociopolitical power and keep poor people from organizing with each other effectively.

Like "traditional manhood" is a lie that traps people perceived as cis men into a pyramid scheme, where if they sell enough Marykay/Avalon/vitamin thing boxes(uphold patriarchal standards/perpetuate systemic misogyny), they can win a pink van or something (be a real man/respected)- Whiteness kept poor people of varied cultures from politically and socially allying with slaves at the dawn of the United States.

Black people, blackness is similarly constructed. Maliciously, as a way to artificially strip various peoples from Africa of their cultures and identities, and make them easier to them subjugate. By extension to explicitly create a lower caste of human, that couldn't then be worked with collectively with on equal footing, no matter how close our experiences may have been.

All of this together, is what fueled race science, and every piece of racist rhetoric to come out of America. Even if you're not black, this tactic's use is a very basic way to divide and conquer. If you're any kind of "non-white" it's been used on you. It's colorism, it's racism, it's orientalism, it's the basis of colonial imperialist power.

So allow me to rephrase-

White people have never done anything good in history.

They're actually always francophones, or Italian, or Scottish, or Irish, or something.

Even out of the United States, the greatest thinkers, and creators are always Minnesotan, Virginian, Idahoian, or something. If they're not part of another ethnic culture first.

Blackness is an identity that is forced upon. There is no way for the black people of the United States of America to ever cede blackness, lest white people stop labeling them as such. Lest white people cast aside their robes.

But as consequence, an inspiration to queerness, a culture rose out of it of resistance to being owned. Community, song, and scattered traditions by region, echoes of past cultural ties.

That culture trickles up through sociopolitical ranks because an artificial band made up purely to conquer, cannot create anything but itself. So they have to take, and assume ownership over new things they did not make, just as much as their roots did.

The black American community is not immune to supremacist thought, no community based on intrinsic identity is.

But whiteness is inherently supremacist, it was intentionally, explicitly, constructed that way.

"What's the takeaway from this"

I promise I'm not just shitting on white people for fun, one of my best friends is white.

But what I am saying is; I don't think it's weird that so many people perceived as white are panicked and fleeing from association with whiteness as an identity. White guilt, and white tears, are lame, but I think that this is unironically a good development.

We can talk about the problems with the destinations they're fleeing too maybe, we can talk about cultural insensitivity and appropriation, but I think those largely stem from not committing to it. But I do think it might be good to navigate something new out of all this. At least conceptually.

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[heyitsnyixie]

Bitches will get depressed at 3 a.m. on their period and write a song to yell at their dad for being transphobic to them.

[poorgay]

i can say nigga

[puppyxaegon]

New pfp

(edit: just realized this is my 200th post so thats,,nice)

[bullsandthebones]

my mom, putting french onion dip in day old mashed potatoes: "try it, it's really good!"

me, a normal person: "this is why I don't eat food that white people give me"

[smileybangbang2020]

😁

[faerieheartzz]

can you say nigga on tumblr??

[keymintt]

YOU MUST TRY TO LOVE YOURSELF WHEN NOTHING ELSE DOES. THIS WILL BE THE HARDEST PART

[honetii]

I'm like super normal and not unhinged in the slightest (I spent 3 days formatting, printing, and binding a niche internet story about sci fi football into a 280 page physical book)

[cymk8]

her hair so CRISPY

(commission!)

[hussyknee]

Freedom for Sudan! 🇸🇩

Freedom for The Congo! 🇨🇩

Freedom for Armenia! 🇦🇲

From River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[stellarspecter]

@pscentral event 20: antagonists ↳ THE LORDS IN BLACK in NERDY PRUDES MUST DIE

[buttersteps]

golden retriever x black cat energy

[windwenn]

u guys r never gonna guess what i've been doing

[smileybangbang2020]

I felt cute. That’s all 😋