#my friend's ancestors have been saying that is a slur call us roma since the 1930s. that was only one or two | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

andthespidersfrommars · 2 months ago

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you might not think it’s hard to be a soc fan artist on tumblr, but let me tell you about the time I called someone out for drawing inej with light skin, so they blocked me and then wrote a long post about me that I couldn’t see, along with colour samples taken from my art as examples of how inej is “too dark” in them, and then they end the post with “I’m disappointed in you” 💀

#girl 😭#inej ghafa #book accurate crows #mine #post contains g slur #the g word is a racial slur for romani people and a word used against them during the 500 years of chattel slavery they endured #which wasn’t even that long ago #english isn’t this person’s first language and so it was google translate who automatically used that word #but they have decided to stand by it #for a lot of my family their first language is greek #that isn't an excuse for them or me to say racially charged english slurs and if I did so by mistake I would correct myself.#you sound like someone who took an ancestry test discovered they had a #minimal percentage of a particular ethnic group in their genetic makeup #and then assumed they could speak on and represent that group without understanding its history or culture.#my racist right-wing aunt has a non white grandparent but that doesn’t give her the right to talk on matters from that ethnic group #we are all very mixed if we examined our genetics very closely #but that doesn't mean you can decide whether or not that word is a slur if you haven't lived openly as a romani person #and been called that while you were denied jobs education and even being allowed to go into stores.#you are undermining the lived experiences of individuals within the roma community.#my friend's ancestors have been saying that is a slur call us roma since the 1930s. that was only one or two #generations after the abolition of slavery.#and like any ethnic group of people they have varying skin tones?#it's actually stupid to say they all have light skin when they were in fact ostracized #dehumanized and forced into racially segregated ghettos on the outskirts of society #because of the very dark colour of their skin.#inej ghafa is romani coded #she happens to have dark skin #tw racism #tw colourism #tw g word

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