kyleraynxr:

kyleraynxr:

I genuinely genuinely genuinely hate it when something is centred as “non-white”. I see it way too often. It literally sets white as the default, the core or original point of comparison, and everything else is a variation or off-shoot of it. It centres whiteness as the base, and literally everyone else as defined by their not being white. Their lack of whiteness. As though white is the only way to be right.

The term “of colour” is LITERALLY right there. Instead of “a non-white cast” or “non-white movie”, consider this: a cast of colour or a movie of colour, you fools, you eurocentric cowards. Especially if it’s a black cast or black movie. Just say BLACK. It’s not a slur. I promise.

How self-centred and egocentric do you have to be to take something that focuses on a marginalized group or a certain identity, whose main focus of that particular piece of ground-breaking media IS that group, and then go around and phrase and frame all discussion around it by their lack of whiteness or straightness or what-have-you-ness?

Are you so afraid of not being the focus or centre of attention for two seconds that you’d make any reference to their colour or racial background into being about how they’re not white? That’s where we are at, in 2018, year 1 PBP (Post Black Panther)? Really?

How can you so blatantly miss the point? Or is it as I think and you’re fully cognizant of your erasure of black people and people of colour, to intentionally and maliciously bring whiteness to the table as the default?

Stop framing the narrative around whiteness to the detriment and exclusion of people of colour and particularly black people.

And yes white and non-black people can reblog this.