#ghetto stereotypes

[baldwinheights]

[ccwpids-blogbiggestfan]

The discourse about black reader / urban fics i try to ignore it and stay out of it, but i promise you, honey, you're not different for not liking or reading black reader fics.. you want something different? go ahead and write tht shit yourself instead of complaining. at the end of the day? you're yapping and down talking other black women's creativity and hard work ion like that at all. it's always better to move in silence. this is fiction, and I think it's a heavy YOU problem and not that deep at Alll. let mfs write their silly little fanfictions damn.

[lord-squiggletits]

The fact that people fanonize Pharma as a functionist so much when Ratchet is right there is so fucking stupid it borders into hilarity honestly. It's like the fanon equivalent of someone next to you saying a slur and everyone else thinking you said it

Ratchet will be like "blah blah forged medic hands are the best blah blah I'm not saying that all the best medics are forged I'm just saying forged hands have a natural superiority over non forged hands blah blah once my hands stop working someone needs to take me out back and shoot me like a crippled dog"

Pharma: "hey fuckface you stole my hands and now my hatred for you is personal because you violated my body"

The fandom: "Holy FUCK Pharma is so racist look at him being obsessed with forged medic hands being the best!!!!"

Me, every other Pharma fan, anyone with reading comprehension:

[kurapikasjudgement]

Say it with me. Black does not equal ghetto.

[nyxelestia]

Not just California and not just L.A. It needs to be the Westside; that's the white neighborhood where the producing screenwriters live and influencers never leave. They already misrepresent the rest of L.A. where the rest of us live.

"I hate how American media will just make up a European nation rather than do any research, so I'm going to get back at them by writing a story set in a fake American state" like, do you have the slightest idea how much American media is set in a geographically impossible fictional small town located in no particular state and characterised entirely by some guy from Los Angeles' collection of half-remembered stereotypes about the American Midwest? They've already got the "badly inventing fictional parts of America" bit locked down.

No, if you want to play the Uno reverse card on American media, what you need to do isn't to make up a fake state: you specifically need to wilfully misrepresent southern California.

[lilhawkeye3]

A Crash Course to Kendrick's Super Bowl Performance, from a Black Woman

Note: this does NOT go in depth into all of the song's lyrics. I don't have time to recount two decades of his discography. This is just a summary of the performance itself.

Let's start with the first visual we get:

UNCLE SAM - most notably recognized from WWII American wartime propaganda, Uncle Sam is the personification of American patriotism and freedom. The term "uncle" is also evocative of Uncle Tom from Uncle Tom's Cabin, an abolitionist book that aided in inciting the Civil War. Uncle is also a very common term (both endearment and derogatory) towards Black men (eg. "unc"). Samuel L Jackson was fantastic. (Edit: and please look up his history of civil rights activism, he was on the FBI watchlist and even a pallbearer at MLKJr’s funeral.)

Uncle Sam also resembles a circus ringleader, notable for my next point:

THE GREAT AMERICAN GAME - no, not Super Bowl. The GAG is us the people being pitted against each other: through late-stage capitalism, through the culture war, through class warfare, through being built of the backs of slaves. We are all players in the GAG because none of us on this site were the oligarchs seated at the inauguration.

This is also seen as Kendrick's stage was a Play Station controller. Not only did it remind of circus rings visually, but it was a game battle stage. The Great American Game is a battle royale of the commoners for the amusement of the rich whites.

Remember the foods / Them color was tin and brown / But now they 100 and blue - For this I'll just say, look what the last election said about lowering the price of eggs... and look at the prices now.

The revolution about to be televised / You picked the right time / But the wrong guy - Election 2024 once more. *Edit to add, the first part of this lyric is in reference to the Black Liberation Song "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" by Gil Scott-Heron. Thanks to everyone who mentioned that.

THE FLAG DANCERS - yes, the dancers formed the US flag... off of the backs of Black people. Not a single white person in sight, and that's true of the cotton pickers in the fields. Plantations are part of how the US came to economic prominence after being a "backwater" colony. Remember tobacco? Cotton? Our bloodlines do. *Edit to add: they also all piled out of a clown car. The US flag in a clown car? Brilliant.

The red and blue dancers are also notable for representing the Crips and Bloods, two infamous street gangs. The dance in Not Like Us is the Crip Walk. I recommend researching more on your own time about them, but just know they are a large part of the stereotype of Black people being "ghetto."

TOO LOUD, TOO RECKLESS, TOO GHETTO. Do you really know how to play the game? - This is exactly what Black people, especially Black men, get told all the time. It's why we change our names on resumes if they sound "too Black." It's why we codeswitch in non-Black company. This is especially rich considering how non-Black people love our culture and love to make money off of us, as the latter part of the quote points to. And it's even more profound during the Super Bowl-- the NFL is majority Black players.

STREET LIGHT A CAPELLA -- "thug" stereotype dancers to counteract the a capella connotations, with Uncle Sam then saying that Kendrick figured out "bringing other street guys around being a culture cheat code." Yes, this is a direct hit at Drake (listen to "Not Like Us") but also politically. Look up "model minority". Notably I would point to Candace Owens, or the Miami Venezuelan political group that's been in the news recently, especially as this directly led to Kendrick being surrounded by...

DANCERS IN WHITE -- it's white America. That's... that's the allegory.

NOT LIKE US TEASER -- Kendrick says "Not Like Us" is "their favorite song." -> he means white people specifically here. It comes after he's surrounded by all white dancers, the women around him who are his call and response are also in white (my opinion, they represent the industry). He's saying "Not Like Us" is the favorite of yts because it is about BLACK MEN FIGHTING. This again is reflected in the video game stage and ringleader Uncle Sam.

SZA -- instead of giving what they want, we see SZA. She's one of Drake's exes and Kendrick has always supported her.

ALL THE STARS -- This was in the first Black Panther movie, which I recommend you watch. Rest in Power Chadwick. Notably, this movie was incredibly mainstream as a major Marvel movie, and then we have Uncle Sam say...

"THAT'S WHAT AMERICA WANTS: NICE AND CALM. DON'T MESS THIS UP" -- translation: Marvel (the industry, America, etc.) wanted a safe, semi-pop song because white American likes safe pop songs, not Kendrick's usual heavy rap style about his life as a Black man! Don't mess up what you've got going mainstream for having this "Black rap feud" with Drake, who is an R&B model minority to white people because he's safe.

So what does Kendrick say?

IT'S A CULTURAL DIVIDE / IMMA GET IT ON THE FLOOR -- He was warned not to be political or apologetically Black for this Super Bowl performance, but he is using this big stage opportunity to speak out.

40 ACRES AND A MULE / THIS IS BIGGER THAN THE MUSIC -- 40 acres and a mule are what the freed slaves were promised. Instead, this land went to white sharecroppers. Research Jim Crow laws.

THEY TRIED TO RIG THE GAME / BUT YOU CAN'T FAKE INFLUENCE -- rig the election, rig the industry like with model minority Drake, rig the Great American Game with culture war to distract from active class warfare.

NOT LIKE US -- the only thing I'll mention because it made me holler is Serena Williams crip walking on Drake's metaphorical grave. She's another one of his exes (read: Drake harassed the hell out of her). *Edit: she was also fined at the 2012 Olympics for crip walking in celebration at Wimbledon.

TURN THE TV OFF -- exactly like he said! The TV is a distraction, the Super Bowl is a distraction, the mainstream news is often a distraction. Turn it off and get with your people!

GAME OVER — could not see this on my stream but at the end of the performance, the lights in the stadium spelled this out. The world is watching, America…

In conclusion, Kendrick Lamar is a visionary and thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

[lizbuthdawesbun]

AND BEYONCE DEFINITELY DID NOT DESERVE ALBUM OF THE YEAR FOR COWBOY CARTER. (Maybe for Renaissance, but definitely not this album.)

[athena411-blog]

Plantationism

https://pinecast.com/listen/6c237b88-111c-4c48-bf66-a3d78fed2067.mp3

[erenspipi]

as a black girl i am SO tired of those black insert fanfics that’s only composed of stereotypes from BOTH sides

no the aot men, those bland white men, would NEVER call you ‘mamas’ or ‘ma’ or talk to you like they grew up in the fucking ghetto, jesus christ

reader doesn’t always have to be from the ��hood’ neither like why we fighting Mikasa over Eren and are ‘used’ to it bc we from the ghetto 😭

andddddd why the reader always get wigs, nails or lashes appointment

don’t get me started on connie or eren wearing a durag or always smoking a blunt, armin would NOT touch that shit

can we stop the damn stereotypes my god I don’t think I’ve ever came across a good blk reader x character without one of those in it

[borednblk]

why have the black women of tumblr come to the conclusion that ghetto black women don’t deserve love or representation?

like what’s wrong with a character liking rap music, or liking to have her nails, lashes and hair done?

it’s like yall don’t realize that you’re being anti-black and elitist asf. like yall complain and complain about how writers on here never “write characters like you” and honestly if you feel that way then write it yourself?

ghetto black women never get good representation in media because of people LIKE YOU. like god forbid someone writes characters like the people in their everyday life or like them because they ALSO thought “i don’t get good representation either” like what the fuck is wrong with yall.

i love every single ghetto, loud, “stereotypical” (which makes no fucking sense) black woman that loves to have long nails, to wear wigs and braids, loves have their lashes done and ones built like megan thee stallion and speak aave.

i love every single shy, quiet, nerdy black woman that loves wearing her natural hair no rocking her natural face and the ones skinny, thick, fat, short, tall, and whatever tf else.

like there is some actual representation you SHOULD be fighting for like more PLUS SIZE reader rep that isn’t the stereotypical “i hate my body” ass shit , more DARK SKIN reader rep that doesn’t have anything to do with the reader hating her skin tone or going through colorism, and some TALL reader rep but bitch you’re pissy because they made the reader like to wear wigs …like bitch are you DUMB???

bashing black woman writers on here because YOU don’t feel represented is fucking stupid. they take times out of THEIR days to write on this app and they DON’T get paid for this! so for the love for all things that are holy, if i hear another one of yall say some this shit imma beat your ass.

[arinzechukwuture]

By Nichii Nahama

‘Soooo you mean to tell me that someone down your ancestry line survived being chained to other human bodies for several months in the bottom of a disease-infested ship during the Middle Passage, lost their language, customs and traditions, picked up the English language as best they could while working free of charge from sun up to sun down as they watched babies sold from out of their arms and women raped by ruthless slave owners.

Took names with no last names, no birth certificates, no heritage of any kind, braved the Underground Railroad, survived the Civil War to enter into sharecropping... Learned to read and write out of sheer will and determination, faced the burning crosses of the KKK, everted their eyes at the black bodies swinging from ropes hung on trees...

Fought in World Wars as soldiers only to return to America as boys, marched in Birmingham, hosed in Selma, jailed in Wilmington, assassinated in Memphis, segregated in the South, ghettoed in the North, ignored in history books, stereotyped in Hollywood...

and in spite of it all, someone in your family line endured every era to make sure you would get here, but you receive one rejection, face one obstacle, lose one friend, get overlooked, and you want to quit?

How dare you entertain the very thought of quitting. People, you will never know survived from generation to generation so you could succeed. Don’t you dare let them down!

It is NOT in our DNA to quit!’

[baldwinheights]

racist bitch

[butterflywomanstuff]

I was on TikTok and I came cross a video of how black!female readers are stereotyped too much and I agree. Is it me or I just find it very annoying of how some tumble or Wattpad creators represent us black woman!readers? If you like it, then that’s okay. I’m just saying my opinion. Everytime I read a fic and the reader is black all we get is either the toxic characters or the main 4 like: Gojo, Toji, Eren, Sukuna. ALSO why do we have to become baby mama’s?? Or Gojo’s and Toji’s baby mama’s? The amount of baby mama fics are ridiculous. They use such stereotypes for the black reader. And they always call the reader “Ma” every five seconds, it’s okay if you like it, I just find it generally annoying. They be writing bs such as “I put my braids in a bun then next I grabbed my bonnet”Or giving us the straight blonde hair? The ONLY hairstyle we have is either braids or a silk press. Why do we always have to be so ghetto and stereotyped? The “x black readers” need to be studied. Mostly tumblr creators who write x black readers fics. Are so stereotypical. There are good ones but most fics about “x black female reader” are sexualising, stereotyping black girl too girls much. Like cmon we can do better than that.

[m-ilkiee]

Screenshotted this bc I don't want to harrass anyone so I cropped out the user name. If you happen to find the post do NOT. I REPEAT DO NOT HARRASS THE CREATOR

It is not up to 20 days into 2025 and we're already starting the year witch hunting black women for what they write. Let's leave posts complaining and policing what and how people, especially us black women chose to write our characters. Before you know it, post like these will energize racists and stupid blk people to harrass black women who write fics like these.

If it's not your cup of tea, fine; personally I don't write my reader like that bc I grew up in the surburbs and I'm introverted, but I'm not going to shit on anyone who writes a black reader who twerks in the club or the way they write the characters themselves.

The fact that you keep complaining about 'so call stereotypes', I think you should sit and ask yourself why exactly do the way other black ppl presents themselves bothers you, when you don't have the same visceral reaction as to white writers writing about mafia aus.

You'll find it's rooted in white supremacy. It's 2025, stop with this discourse. Let black women BE. YES, EVEN THE ONES YOU THINK ARE "GHETTO" (god I hate that word)

[creatingblackcharacters]

There's a pattern I've noticed with mixed-race fictional characters - the Black parent is almost invariably the dad. If this isn't selection bias on the part of the media I'm familiar with, I'm guessing this is tied to gendered stereotypes about Black people?

I mean, if you want my honest answer about the combination in general, it's because Black women are not deemed equivalently valuable partners, if valuable humans. That intersection between "Black" and "woman" drives home that this is the least desirable combination in our society.

Yes, there are plenty of stereotypes of the types of mothers and wives that we make, despite the fact that people then turn around and want us to solve the world's problems. Everyone wants us to fix, but no one wants to love us for the fixing and the doing. Everyone wants to mock us for being "ghetto welfare queens" or "loud and mean", to the point that the idea that we're normal ass people capable of love is unbelievable to some.

And be honest- how many times have we watched media where the Black girl or woman was the romantic interest of a white man, and it got extreme hate? Entire shows have been affected by fans' vitriol towards a Black woman on screen being loved by a white man (Merlin, Sleepy Hollow, The Flash, Arcane). People don't want to see Black women in that role; it's not "relatable" or "exciting". In order to see more Black women in these roles, people would have to see Black women as worth loving, as good parents, as good wives. As valuable characters.

And yes, the history of white women's vitriol and resentment towards the status of Black women in particular is longstanding, centuries before "fandom" as we know it today.

[jewish-vents]

it’s so wild how people don’t recognize antisemitism at all, or the tropes. I was reading comments in a thread about casting for this HBO Harry Potter show (I know lol), and someone wrote, “If Snape was of POC heritage, him being of Indian or Middle-Eastern descent makes so much more sense based on the books description of his features. Greasy, long, dark hair; sallow complexion (which I'd interpret as olive-skinned), dark eyes and a hooked nose.”

someone responded about how that’s racist stereotyping against Arab men.

middle eastern descent, long, dark hair, olive complexion, hooked nose are all consistent antisemitic tropes, with centuries’ worth of cultural embedding in Europe. but I guess we’re European, right? we’re not of middle eastern descent, right? we have to break down and explain these things to goyim over and over again. I don’t even think JKR recognized the antisemitism inherent in that description when she created it because it IS such a common image to make synonymous with “untrustworthy villain.”

they’re doing the same thing right now talking about witches and stripping the history from it entirely. it’s almost laughable. first we’re not allowed to have our culture, our traditions, our pride, or any of our good things. then we’re not allowed to have our history and our trauma, even the worst things, like pogroms and ghettos and the Shoah. then we’re not allowed to mention that biblical figures were Jews, and NOW we’re not even allowed to point out the fictional/fairytale tropes and stock characters and imagery used to demonize us for centuries.

nothing is ever Jewish. except they all want to attack and eradicate Jewish people. it feels like we’re being erased from everything, good or bad. what was done to us didn’t happen. what we’ve accomplished didn’t happen. we don’t exist.

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