#Black Identity

[devonda81]

It's more like 90's with the kid n play high top fade and Mary looking like a fly girl especially with the Black designer high fashion Like dapper Dan because Stack takes pride in his black identity through his clothes and jewelry hell is nickname is stack he all about money 💰.

By the end of Sinners Stack is the most 80's looking motherfucker ever

[ghost-37]

[creatingblackcharacters]

"Although the concept of “doubly trans-” seems to recast and redouble “trans-” in spatial terms, that is, as a formulation that gestures toward modes of thought that move beyond matters of gender, “doubly trans-” also names the double relation (transitive and transversal) under examination in this study, wherein blackness and transness, with few exceptions, have been expressed in terms of a disavowal, which Neil Roberts explains as a “double movement: an acknowledgement and a denial” that “locates an event and then rejects its relevance, knowing full well that it occurred.”

This maneuver brings to the fore another two-part formulation, which Du Bois named “double-consciousness” to refer to the “peculiar sensation” of “always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.”

Double consciousness as the expression of “two souls, two thoughts, [and] two unreconciled strivings” simultaneously articulates the feelings that emerge for blacks in America and throughout the diaspora and provides a way to perceive how race and gender are inextricably linked yet irreconcilable and irreducible projects. To feel black in the diaspora, then, might be a trans experience."

Black On Both Sides- A Racial History of Trans Identity, C Riley Snorton

[wesleysniperking]

Usopp, Representation, and the Black Experience: My Perspective (maybe TL;DR)

Disclaimer: This post reflects my personal interpretation and connection with Usopp's character. I understand that not everyone may share the same perspective, and that's okay. This is just my own take based on my experiences and thoughts about identity and representation.

When it comes to Black characters, I’ve noticed a recurring theme where they often distance themselves from their non-Black friends or take time away due to personal struggles. It’s a reflection of the weight they carry, and sometimes there’s even some regret for doing so. I can think of plenty of shows that have touched on this, and honestly, I get it. A lot of Black people, myself included, feel the need to face things alone, likely because of deep-rooted issues tied to our history, upbringing, and the challenges of navigating predominantly non-Black spaces—especially when tokenism is involved.

I’ve been that person, and in many ways, I still am. My sister and mom often joke that Usopp feels like a Black guy with a lot of “white” friends. They also mention how Black men, especially those in subcultures like the hipster scene, often juggle two social circles. My cousin, a big One Piece fan, is the perfect example of this. Even Jacob Gibson, who plays Usopp in the live-action series, gives off a similar vibe.

I know this might come off as blunt or even as a generalization, but to me, Usopp reflects a part of the Black experience. He’s like the Lando (or Finn) in Star Wars, Link Hayes in The Mod Squad, Noah in Young Riders, and Marcellus in The Originals. He’s the Renee in Ally McBeal, Tucker in Danny Phantom, Black Panther in Avengers, Cyborg in Teen Titans, Gerald in Hey Arnold, James Rhodes in Iron Man, Chris Washington in Get Out, Ben in Night of the Living Dead, and Christopher in Scrubs. He’s that Black guy.

Maybe One Piece could show Usopp as more than just his race, but it’s hard to ignore the connection. And that’s okay. It’s something I’ve been reflecting on for a while, and I wanted to share it.

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[creatingblackcharacters2]

I'm Serious.

I promise I'm not just talking out of my ass lol. I do feel passionately about the topic. And again, I can't make anyone do anything, and every Black person may not feel the same. But if you're going to write to me directly to ask me for help about my identity, show respect to my identity by capitalizing the B in Black.

[steve-needs-a-hug]

It's really, really interesting to see how certain people are talking about a biracial mixed-race woman now that she may be about to become the US president.

At the orange felon's rally, Michaelah Montgomery (a Black woman and conservative activist) defended his comments claiming that Kamala Harris had always used to be an Indian woman, and has suddenly "turned Black" now. Montgomery went even further to say that "the same Black people who are mad at Trump for being confused about her race, ethnicity, nationality, whatever, are seemingly forgetting that while you're touting her as a savior for black people, she identifies as an Asian woman, [...] She chose her side, and it wasn't ours."

Someone I know on IG messaged me saying Harris is not Black. I responded that her father is Jamaican, and they responded by stating that doesn't make her Black, and sending screenshots of news headlines touting Harris as the first Indian-American US senator.

As a mixed-race person myself this rhetoric sounds incredibly bizarre. In what world does Harris being the first Indian-American senator and then VP make her not Black anymore? She is Black and she is Indian. It's not complicated.

Although I'm sure there's variety in how mixed-race people conceptualize their identity, I know that even though I'm genetically half-Slavic and half-West Asian, I have never identified as half-anything. I am a Pole and I am a Persian. When I'm singing along to disco polo with my Polish friends, I'm Polish. When I'm on holiday with family eating joojeh kabob, I'm Persian. I've studied identity for the past 3 years of graduate school, and I know that the identity that defines you most in the moment is determined by the context you currently exist in. It's not complicated.

This divisive rhetoric has reached a new level of insane, and I hope to hear more people speak out about it.

[blackstar1887]

Unraveling Identity: Cam'ron, African Americans, and a Pan-African Perspective

[louart1]

Exploring Black Identity with Kerry James Marshall | Art21

[influencingforjohn]

Black girls deserve to be in love too . Black woman deserve marriage too . Black mothers deserve dedicated fathers to their children too . Black nurses DESERVE roles in leadership too .

[realjaysumlin]

(31) Women and Blacks on TV | Charlotte O'Kelly - Academia.edu

Nothing has changed since the beginning of radio and television which often degrade women and everyone Black. Imaging means a lot and this is something that no one who isn't considered as being a white male should support.

Even in commercials the image of the white male is portrayed as being the ideal male for families and properly fitted above all males on earth. While picturing the Black Indigenous Male as unfit and dangerous.

This type of imagery is disturbing because it has so many negative effects on the Black Indigenous Males in particular when it causes unprovoked violence against them by law enforcement agencies and others.

[ghost-37]

BREZILLA 🦖

[thereclusiveblogger]

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[wesleysniperking]

Usopp’s identity

I understand that some people disagree with the idea that Usopp is Black, and everyone is entitled to their opinion. However, I do believe there are those in the fandom who go out of their way to deny Usopp’s Black identity as a way to mask their unconscious bias. We all have biases to some extent—that’s inevitable. But to refer to people who argue for Usopp’s representation as a 'crying minority' is both insensitive and dismissive. It’s baffling how some can be so blunt and careless about race and stereotypes online, yet act differently in public. Now that Usopp’s skin tone seems to be getting lighter, the debate has become even more heated.

[chiikwezens]

Since the news I've had a rollercoaster of thoughts and emotions, I've had a little time to sit with how I feel about our new pope

First I'd like to acknowledge my religious stance, I am Hindu, my experience growing up flip flopping between Christianity and Catholicism will be the lense I'll be speaking from in this post. My experience growing up isn't exactly pleasant.

I also think I should state my mixed identity and my experience as a mixed individual within a couple different diasporas. My father's mother is cuban and his father is Puerto Rican my father's parents brought him to "the mainland" when he was a teen, they bounced around from Florida, Illinois, then eventually settled here in Minnesota Albert lea, Caribbean folk are a mix of indigenous Caribbean, native American, African, Asian and Spaniard. My Caribbean family were proud island folk, they had trouble accepting parts of their identity (self hating black folk) but some were proud. Race wasn't talked about a whole lot but there was definitely an emphasis on the boricua identity in the family, making sure to always be speaking the dialect and making dishes unique to the Caribbean and my grandmother (mami) she had angels and saints everywhere, the whole living room was an altar, we weren't allowed to touch anything, but on occasion I helped with the prayer plates, tiny dishes of food to put along side the statues and pictures of relatives adorned with trinkets, herbs, beads, candles and the rosaries were gorgeous. I could never understand a word she would say when speaking about the altars but I was passive in my understanding enough to know that it was important to her and the family and to be calm and careful when paying my respects to their space in the room. I believe she was Catholic and I believe my grandpa (papi) participated but I'm not certain if he believed like her and I'm not entirely certain it was "pure Catholicism" like I have no clue if she was a bruja or not, the language barrier made it hard to fully learn what the family practiced. My intersectional black identity is not lost on me but none the less I'm proud of every part of me, I'm learning my lineage and proud of everything I know and have yet to experience.

My mother's mom is mdewakanton Dakota Sioux (all they'd talk about) and father anishinaabe Ojibwe (all they would talk about) now knowing the history of what happened to indigenous people during the first wave of colonization we can assume most indigenous folk have some kind of Spaniard or European in them as well as the overlap of the slave trade and indigenous genocide there's bound to be indigenous folk who are both African American and native American as well as the overlap of certain Asian "settlements/migrants" during the time as well. Which tracks to later in life (this year at 23 there's confirmed asain ancestry on both Mom and Dad's side of the family)

My parents separated when I was 8, while with my mom she had my grandparents take me to church and even sunday school on occasion one year we got so enmeshed with the church goer's that we got permission to help the church with packing meals for "feed my starving children" as a child in the position I was in in life it was definitely a stain on my life I'll remember for years, it's a much longer story but my experience with Christianity is worse that my experience with Catholicism. I never had Catholics say they'd pray for my abusers/rapists. I digress, I have some experience and a place with the religion to have an opinion I believe especially as a black indigenous descendant.

Now I might be a bit "more mixed" than the pope in conversation but my intersectional identity does partially align with him. I'd like to say this is my thoughts on the matter with the existing conversation around him rather than a think piece on what I've read up on the guy personally, I have no clue how this man identifies but the facts are that he had mixed ancestry.

As the first American pope, I see both the good and bad perspectives on the nationality, he is indeed the first Vatican pope of central American United States nationality. This would continue the history of the Catholic influence among folk here in the US, the Early Catholic influence mimics the Christian influence in terms of it's carnage against specific demographics however with the past popes track record and the willingness of the Catholic Church to branch out into the united states history books with a relatively progressive individual shows willingness and actions towards change. Now for his racial and ethnic background, of note there has been handfuls of POC popes but to my knowledge this is the first of his particular mix and to that I say that is indeed progress through the lens of the oppressor, there's inevitably both a good and bad add on to this situation due to his background, both progressives and conformists with find pros and cons with this individual, inevitably using his likeness to cause divide, to me, he is a very small step in the right direction and I can also see the potential to aid the current administration in setting us back (though unlikely given his distain for the current POTUS) so to all of that I say. Think and feel all that you will and move on, history moves on wether we like it or not besides, it's not like there only ever 1 pope in position in a given year, if you don't like this one there is another to support. Like he can just be some guy yk the last pope I didn't even really hear about until a couple years ago as he was growing older and I didn't align with him so I just didn't pay attention to him, now I'm most likely going to do the same with this new appointed pope considering I no longer practice Catholicism and am currently a practicing hindu.🤷🏽

[thesagittarianmind]

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