Freedom of speech is always a thing, but if you’re writing racist trash, it’s other people’s right to call your racist ass behavior.
Don’t like it? Then don’t be a racist.
And talking about it and making people aware that this is a segment of fandom that actively supports antiblackness is not harassment. Fans of color should be aware that this is a hostile environment, especially toward Black people. Fans are rallying around this author and this fanwork in support.
They’ve already made it clear that they will fight to protect racist fanwork before, and they’ll keep doing it. The fandom has a responsibility not to look away, because this is real life. If someone has that much hostility toward a black fictional man being in the vicinity of a white woman, do you think it doesn’t reflect at all in how they view real people? They sure don’t hesitate to go after Black fans, regardless of ship.
OKOYE THE GENERAL.
for @koyukipanda ! This woman has been trying to get an Okoye from me for so damn long. HERE. TAKE IT. (We’re friends irl stay calm)Hahahaha.
#nikolasdraperivey #okoye #commission #marvel #sketches #artistsoninstagram #blackpanther #doramilaje #danaigurira
I just thought about this today and dug through my pictures to find it: a letter from a black soldier in the Civil War to the person who owns his daughter. “The longer you keep my child from me the longer you will have to burn in Hell and the quicker you will get there.“
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Letter from a Black Soldier to the Owner of His Daughter
Spotswood Ric, a former slave, writes to Kittey Diggs, 1864:
I received a letter from Cariline telling me that you say I tried to steal, to plunder, my child away from you. Not I want you to understand that Mary is my Child and she is a God given rite of my own.
And you may hold on to her as long as you can. But I want you to remember this one thing, that the longer you keep my Child from me the longer you will have to burn in hell and the quicker you’ll get there.
For we are now making up about one thousand black troops to come up thorough, and want to come through, Glasgow. And when we come woe be to Copperhood rebels and to the Slaveholding rebels. For we don’t expect to leave them there. Root nor branch. But we think however that we (that have children in the hands of you devils), we will try your the day that we enter Glasgow.
I want you to understand Kittey Diggs that where ever you and I meet we are enemies to each other. I offered once to pay you forty dollars for my own Child but I am glad now that you did not accept it. Just hold on now as long as you can and the worse it will be for you.
You never in you life before I came down hear did you give children anything, not anything whatever, not even a dollars worth of expenses. Now you call my children your property. Not so with me.
My children is my own and I expect to get them. And when I get ready to come after Mary I will have both a power and authority to bring her away and to exact vengeances on them that holds my Child.
You will then know how to talk to me. I will assure that. And you will know how to talk right too. I want you now to just hold on; to hear if you want to. If your conscience tells that’s the road, go that road and what it will bring you to Kittey Diggs.
I have no fears about getting Mary out of your hands. This whole Government gives cheer to me and you cannot help yourself.
Source: Ira Berlin, ed. Freedom, A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1982, 690.
I wanted to find out what happened (DID HE GET HIS DAUGHTER BACK?) and the answer is that not only was he reunited with his family, but went on to be a successful minister and his daughter was interviewed in the 30s for the Slave Narratives Project.
Jesus, do they have a hive mind?! How is this Poe = Gaston thing spreading so fast?
Also when did Poe ever have it easy? When? He was always, at best, solidly middle class while Ben Solo was the son of a Senator. Poe’s mother died when he was young while Benny had both parents until he fucking murdered one of them. Poe was an officer in the Republic military before he left to do something about the First Order threat. Benny coasted by on talent, fooled Luke and everyone about who he truly was, and then shot up a school before he left to JOIN the First Order threat. Poe looked on helplessly while Benny, now going by his death metal band name Kylo Ren, ordered an entire village full of unarmed people massacred. Poe then suffered brutal physical and mental torture at the orders and eventually hands of Kylo Ren.
I s2g at this point reylows are taking all the inconvenient parts of Benny Boy’s story and character and projecting them onto Poe. Here’s news for them: Kylo is Gaston, the entitled, superficially charming, possessive, creepy, and violent toxic white male. Their pathetic attempts to pin these qualities on a character who does not have any of them just shows how scared and desperate they are as the daylight of reality dawns clearer and clearer even to their dim minds.
Yes, reylows, we know. The sight of Poe being so dashing and handsome and heroic left you shitting your pants as your febrile imaginations conjured up images of him activating Rey’s navigational array in the Millennium Falcon’s storage closets, as Benny does in your three zillion Reylow fanfics. And now you’re scurrying to silence the panic while washing your shitstained pants with your tears. Being racist as hell and completely off-base with reality to deal with your fear is right in line with the deeply dishonest people you are. Your lot are as boring and predictable as you are nasty and mean-spirited.
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