#African American - General

[averageludwig]

Sorry About ranting about how the fandom treats demoman but god there is so many things I can talk about. from the exclusion, to the stereotyping him, to mischaracterization and to the weird fetishization... lord. being a demo fan is a hard battle.

[aiartwerk]

Bedtime Story

[ultradude13]

African-Americans throughout the years.

[africanamericanreports]

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore posthumously commissioned Harriet Tubman to the rank of Brigadier General for her military service to both the United States and Maryland.

[everlastingrandom]

Food genetics are so weird. I may be weak to tannins, but at least I can enjoy cilantro. Raw fruit makes my mouth itch and I’m learning that I’m more likely to be sensitive to salt (!?) My relationship with dairy grows more tenuous by the day

[reasoningdaily]

https://x.com/1beinggood/status/1707524837239882140?t=KJ37UwOrdabPBy2I4TL67A&s=09

If you are interested in Freedmen Reparations, check out this space on Twitter, TODAY 10/10/23 - 4:30PM

[myanalogai]

#blackwoman sitting in a modern chair.

[venomouskick-89]

In JP's story.

[nerozane]

Maybe because I was spoilt by other character creator games, but it really does suck having facial options for your Tav be white, white, pretty white, hot white, black, Asian. Maybe lucky having a second vague Asian face.

And some of the smaller species don't have black or Asian faces which. feels bad. I wanted to make my eldritch knight fight, who is a Vietnamese half orc, but they are masculine body type but there's no Asian face for half-orcs.

Even for the male gnomes and dwarves have only white faces for those species and I'm >:/ and it sucks because Larian can make extensive facial options (dragonborn has so many I adore them), but for the others there's not any.

Paired with the fact that most of the origin cast + sidekicks and NPCs that visit your camp or play a huge part in each origin char is white. The only very significant bipoc characters to any arc is Wyll (black), Duke Ravengard(black), Thaniel(he's Asian tho you can interpret him as being white)... and Cazador(Asian). Which the latter is yikes since he's an abuser (and alluded rapist).

[lynnytt]

“The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to. ''What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. ''Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.”

― Neil Gaiman, quote from American Gods

[angelsaxis]

you really can't critique anything america does if youre going to leave out ant-Black racism lol

[afrotumble]

Senate Confirms Marine Corps' First Black, Female Two-Star General

[africanamericanreports]

The gunman who killed three people Saturday at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, had earlier been turned away from the campus of Edward Waters University, an HBCU just blocks away from the site of the shooting authorities said was a targeted attack against Black people.

[pumpacti0n]

Dr. Joy DeGruy - Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome. How Is It Different From PTSD?

[quotesfromall]

I read once that you should never let people know when you’re angry, because once they know your trigger, they’ll use it for their own purposes. Not that every guy is walking around with a remote control with a flip-her-wig button, but it served as a reminder not to let everything set us off. Women are judged to be emotional. Black women especially are stereotyped that way.

Ytasha L. Womack, Post Black

[quotesfrommyreading]

No one who has heard the Black Hebrew Israelites on big-city street corners with megaphones in hand can deny the racial trauma they cantankerously amplify or ignore the Black suffering, from slavery to the present day, from which they desperately seek relief. Nor can we overlook the hateful sentiments and relentless stream of antisemitic rhetoric that fall obscenely from their lips.

Sitting right alongside varieties of Black antisemitism is a redemptive variety of philosemitism that can only be called Jew envy. I have heard such envy in barbershops, pool halls, churches and clubs across the nation. Black folk often praise Jews — for their unity and, above all, for their ability as a people who account for less than 2.5 percent of the U.S. population to successfully make their way in the world with perceived entrepreneurial success and cerebral accomplishments that many Black folk admire and covet.

Jewish unity is likely more myth than fact; Jews, after all, have competing factions, just as African Americans do. Some are conservative, some liberal, some Orthodox, some traditional, some postmodern. Whatever wealth, privilege and influence Jews have built, there is also a history of persecution and the generational trauma carried by the families of Holocaust victims and survivors. And relentless antisemitic attacks have had an impact on all Jews, up to the present day. All Jews, regardless of wealth, are threatened by the vicious antisemitism that has been spread in dangerous networks of white supremacy.

  —  Kyrie Irving, Kanye West and the Problem of Black Antisemitism