since janelle has come out, y’all have called her “biphobic” for identifying as both bi and pan, or a “mogai libqueer” for the same reason. y’all have said she isn’t “really” gnc and that she’s very feminine and “wearing pants doesn’t make her gnc”. y’all have said she fits “eurocentric standards of beauty” and that she’s “not good gnc representation” because she’s thin. y’all have now said that she “extorts lesbians” and isn’t to be trusted. again, the only reason you pieces of trash get away with saying any of this is bc she’s a Black bi woman lol.
Anti-blackness is a hell of a drug apparently. God, white queer folk can be so transparent
europeans: *throws bananas at black athletes and politicians in their countries*
europeans: you americans are so obsessed with race… so strange….
Britain: *harasses the fuck out prince harry’s gf meghan markle for being a biracial black woman despite being white passing*
Britain: right? I don’t get this whole “race” thing Americans got going on
Europeans: pissed off about immigration in their countries
Europeans: *colonized the whole FUCKING world*
Australians: *supports the ‘stop the boats campaign’. let’s one nation back in. closed refugee detention centres and displaced the people*
Australians: we’re so tolerant and multicultural. idk y america has such an issue with race.
Canadians: *experience a rise in hate crimes against Muslim Canadians. Forced indigenous peoples off their land and into the horrific residential school system. Has a higher incarceration rate for poc than white people.*
Canadians: we’re way better and more tolerant up here than America. Why can’t they just learn from us.
Europeans: America’s race problem is so backward how did they even get like that LOL
Previously, on the last episode of Europe: Ugh, fuckin’ Jews and G*psies, amirite?
Feinstein: You’re a big, powerful man. Why didn’t you [gestures pushing motion]?
Crews: Senator, as a black man in America [sigh]…
Feinstein: Say it as it is. I think it’s important.
Crews: …you only have a few shots at success. You only have a few chances to make yourself a viable member of the community. I’m from Flint, Michigan. I have seen many many young black men who were provoked into violence, and they were imprisoned, or they were killed, and they’re not here. My wife for years prepared me. She said, “If you ever get goaded, if you ever get prodded, if you ever have anyone try to push you into any kind of situation, don’t do it. Don’t be violent.” And she trained me. I’ll be honest with you it was the strength of my wife who trained me and told me, “If this situation happens, let’s leave.” And the training worked because I did not go into my first reaction, I grabbed her hand, we left, but the next day I went right to the agency. I have texts, I have phone conversations, and I said, “This is unacceptable!” And I told them how -you know- I almost got violent, but I didn’t. And I said, “What are you going to do about this predator that you have roaming your hallways?” And -you know- I was told, “We are going to do everything in our power. We are going to handle this Terry. You’re right. It is unacceptable.” And then they disappeared. Nothing happened.
I’m not a Reylo fan by any means, but why wouldn’t Finn/Poe be good queer representation? 2 POC men in a loving relationship and leading a rebellion together sounds like damn good representation to me.
The pairing in itself is absolutely beautiful.
My issue with it in canon is that TFA very much sets us up for Finnrey and so this would very much come at the expense of a pairing between a Black man and a white woman. And yes, it very much matters that Rey is white in this and that Poe, for all that fandom loves to whitewash him, isn’t.
White people – Hollywood included – have an absolute terror of having whiteness tainted by Black people. To the extent that they will kill a Black person who dares do it. A particular horror to white people is having a white woman touched by a Black man.
If you want to read more about it I recommend this lj entry that explains the horror white people – white women – feel when Black people, in particular Black men simply exist in their general vicinity. The cases it brings up is over half a century old, but that’s simply because they’re some of the most famous ones. The mind set behind these horrible events are very much alive and well though.
(The entry deals with Racefail 09 and primarily talks about how white fandom reacts when Black fans make their voices heard with a loudness that cannot be ignored. That’s when we get Franzeska et a btwl. But the description of Reckless Eyeballing and white people’s fear of being tainted is the best I’ve come across that I have readily to hand.)
For point in case see the Charleston Church Shooting on June 17th 2015. (That’s less than a year ago.) The racist dickbag of a shooter did it by his own words, to protect white women from Black men.
This is why Finnrey is so damn important. And every bit as progressive as Finnpoe, if not more so. Because having a loving relationship based on mutual respect and affection between a Black man and a white woman is as rare in a franchise as big as Star Wars as what Finnpoe would represent.
So while Finnpoe is a lovely pairing and in fandom is a ship I will go down with, and no amount of reylos around can make me stop, canonising it would make me more than uncomfortable. Because it would come at the expense of the loving, affectionate Black/white couple that we’d been set up for. And I do not want my representation to come at that cost.
Thank you, these are points that are often overlooked. Finnrey directly challenges white supremacy and “threatens” the lily white bloodline of the next generation. It’s a big deal. I don’t really care if people ship Stormpilot, but the thing fandom does where it’s like “well, Stormpilot has TWO things and is all poc and Finnrey has one thing that counts less because there’s a white person” – it doesn’t work like that. Especially when black/white interracial procreation is the biggest fear of white supremacists.
I wonder if this is why anti Finnreys are so fixated on Finn taking Rey’s hand to get her out of an emergency, and paint it like sexual harassment while ignoring that she willingly gave him her hand, hugged him, and kissed him. On the other extreme they insistently desexualize all Finn and Rey’s interactions, saying that for some mysterious reason there can’t be anything romantic between them while romanticizing interactions between Rey and Kylo or, less often, Rey and Poe that are either violent and disturbing or, lbr, unremarkable and bland. Rey can lie down on Finn’s chest weeping Juliet-style and it’s totes platonic, while she has shown–twice–that she wouldn’t pee on Kylo if he were on fire and that’s peak romance.
I don’t care who you are, if you complain about the amount of attention Black Lives Matter and Black issues get you are antiblack. “But Native Americans!” “But Asians!” Shut up. Tearing down Black people does not help any other community. Yes it can be frustrating when issues you care about don’t get enough focus, but I promise it’s not Black people’s activism that’s getting in your way. Do your own work and don’t act entitled to what gains Black activists have achieved. You’re not as progressive or nice as you think you are if you’re willing to use Black people as a scapegoat.
People don’t say BlackLivesMatters sucks, because we’re “anti-black.” We are against BlackLivesMatters because everyone who is for it is FULL OF SHIT. You lie, you have a hypocritical mindset, and YOU ARE SELFISH. We say asians, native americans, etc. need attention too, BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT THE ONLY RACE THAT MATTERS. You people act like everything needs to be centered around you! You ignore every single race around you and say, I’m the one being oppressed! See that black girl in human trafficking?? “THIS MEANS WE NEED TO SAVE OUR BLACK WOMEN FROM HUMAN TRAFFICKING!!!” You people representing BlackLivesMatter take one situation and make it ALL about you! There other races around the world that have to go through shit and STILL go through shit. You don’t KNOW what racism IS!!! You’ll make anything an issue about you and you’ll only mention “history” when it actually benefits you, but even that you twist around and create lies out of it. You’re just a toxic community full of people who do nothing but harrass people, make lies, and act like complete hypocrites. You’re racist, you’re selfish, and you people are DISGUSTING for making every single problem in the world about YOU.
I’m like… nonblack and Asian… but pls go on about how I make everything about Black people, you’re funny. Also Black activists have stood in solidarity with Native Americans and Asians, and spoken against the deaths of nonblack people at the hands of police.
So like if you get this salty about Black people speaking up and organizing around an issue that disproportionately affects them while harming no other group’s efforts to stand for justice and lending a hand wherever possible… then yeah, you’re antiblack as fuck.
Asian person here to say #blacklivesmatter and don’t use us as your fucking tools you racist trash.
Misunderstanding the goal of BLM is easy when you hate black people!
What drives me crazy about anti-BLM bullshit is that BLM’s goals benefit EVERYONE. Police reform to decrease violence against civilians is not just good for Black people, it’s something everyone should get behind. But no, these dumbfucks hate Black people so much they’d rather live with police killing innocent people than see fewer Black people killed.
They’re not actually stupid, though. That’s the point, isn’t it? It’s entirely by design. They WANT Black people and other minorities to be afraid and unsafe. They WANT to keep using the police as a tool of state terror. The hatred is terrifying and poisonous.
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