What Israel is doing with African Immigrants is no different than what our own government is trying to do with Muslim immigrants. It’s racist, disgusting, and sick. Israel is racist, disgusting, and sick.
If we’re calling out Trump for his white supremacist, racist bullshit, than we need to do the same for Israel, because they’re is literally no difference. Open up your eyes tumblr, don’t start complaining about the US and talk about how pro-black and pro-immigration you are if you’re gonna turn a blind our towards Israel.
Yall were silent when Trump declared Jerusalem’s isreal’s capital, yall are silent now when they’re evicting African immigrants. i Don’t know wtf yall stan Israel so much but it’s so fucking disgusting and disheartening. It’s one of the most inhuman god awful places in this day and age, and i’m tired of people ignoring it.
Honestly fuck Israel and anyone who blindly supports it. We need to open our eyes, it’s racism is NO DIFFERENT than that of Donald Trump, the KKK, and other shitty group in America. Like this is all racial based, why don’t you care?
Seeing you all stay fucking quiet when white devil Trump handed over Jerusalem to Israel nearly had my crying (in legit sadness). Seeing yall silent when Israel is kicking African immigrants out is just infuriating. Yall are all so pro-black and immigrant except when Israel is involved doing the most inhumane shit. I don’t get tumblr sometimes.
Another reason why Black Panther’s success is important is because now Hollywood will look at it and say, “Hm, maybe not every single movie featuring black people has to be a period piece.”
Here’s the thing. I love period pieces as much as the next one but whenever they focus on black people, they’re usually about slavery. Yes, it’s important to show how terrible slavery was but the thing is those movies can be extremely hard to watch and it’s also just depressing. I love 12 Years a Slave but that is not a movie you can rewatch a lot. It’s depressing, it’s disturbing, you feel sad afterward. Black Panther? It’s fun, it’s exciting, it’s colorful!
That is one of the reasons why BP is important. It’s showing Hollywood that black people want to see more sci-fi and fantasy movies that feature black people.
Yes. BP was sci-fi, fantasy, action, adventure, political drama. ALL OF THESE GENRES!!!!
I’m so tired of people in fandom flipping the fuck out over their “right” to write slavefic in fandom.
If “freedom of speech” is why you get to write slavefic (like in general, but like I saw that T’challa story and OP is going to get theirs for sure), then it’s also going to be why Black people cuss you out until you cry because #whitefragility.
You can’t call criticism censorship when you think you’re being silenced for writing fanfic that is ridiculously racist… Even as you actively go out of your way to silence people of color talking about how racist your shit is. Again, you can’t have your cake and eat it too.
Look, censorship is when your government stops you from doing a thing/creating content that it doesn’t agree with. It’s NOT when many Black people in fandom are like “hey, why the fuck would you write literal USian South slavefic? Fuck you and I hope bad things happen to you.”
Like… The lack of empathy fandom has for Black people never fails to astound me because like we totally try to be nice and explain why slavefic and other forms of fandom antiblackness are beyond awful, but literally the response to Black people writing about why x thing isn’t just problematic, but harmful to us is either:
Trolling responses where they do the thing and mock us for being upset
Crying because they’re being censored because they can’t make slavery erotica without getting yelled at
Those ridiculous pseudo academic “I’m x, y, and z and this is why writing slavefic is me using my first amendment rights and totally empowering to women” (usually from other poc, sexual assault survivors, or queer people – bless your heart but like… I didn’t ask for your traumatic backstory. Trauma vomit is so not my thing.)
Honestly, we’re all on the same internet (give or take a few countries) and fuckers still don’t seem to get that slavery was literally a horrific period in history that serves as metaphorical and painful scar tissue on the souls of black folk across the diaspora…
Because they just really can’t figure out another way to do bdsm-esque power exchange beyond literally writing stories where the transatlantic slave trade is sex…
Like… I’m really REALLY not looking forward to writing that piece about slavery and slavefic in fandom because I don’t have time for tears but I mean… Y’all… It has to happen in 2018
People keep defending writing porn backgrounded in the traumatic treatment of Black folks’ ancestors on the basis of empowerment and I swear im going to mcfricken lose it if I have to keep seeing people share those “ah, fandom is supposed to be for freedom of speech” posts that ignore the fact that hmm… Maybe writing slavery porn where
White people experience the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade (because they’re alphas or omegas, because they’re mutants, because blah blah blah)
Fucking black characters are enslaved (and assaulted) but then conveniently fall in love with a white savior or God forbid, one of the white people enslaving them
Is really fucking racist and only empowering if like part of what empowers you with these stories is Black suffering or Black anger (because fuck, none of y’all are new, y’all know y’all don’t have to write literal slavefic to get your bdsm power imbalance on… Y’all just do it anyway…)
Read some fucking Toni Morrison or the entire Black Atlantic, you fucks.