#nonwhite james potter

[fourquartertoast]

deshi james potter is my roman empire but also

ethiopian james potter? anybody?

[theinvisiblemuseum]

unpopular opinion: i'm tired of the current fan casts & want new ones

give me nonwhite james & sirius and reg

strongly agree | agree | neutral | disagree | strongly disagree

i’ve never liked the marauder fancasts like i like ben barnes & andrew garfield & atj separately but when i see them as the marauders i see red LOL (i don’t even like peter but dane dehaan as peter.. jail) the only one that i don’t hate is timmy as reg but i think that’s just because that one is more updated & he’s still relatively young- he also looks like how i could imagine a version of regulus, and the others look nothing like any version of the marauders my brain could come up with

but yeah white james potter is just like… no .. my brain simply does not compute.. and i’m also excited to see more ppl hcing reg & sirius as not being white either !

no one asked but some of my current fave fcs are reiky de valk as james, william gao as reg, sadie sink as lily, conan gray as sirius, sophia bryant as mary (& a couple that i’m p sure i’m the only one that uses but assa sylla as dorcas and sophie thatcher as marlene *mwah*)

[pottermetaarchive]

Mrs Potter was Mrs Dursley’s sister, but they hadn’t met for several years; in fact, Mrs Dursley pretended she didn’t have a sister, because her sister and her good-for-nothing husband were as unDursleyish as it was possible to be. The Dursleys shuddered to think what the neighbours would say if the Potters arrived in the street.

Philosopher’s Stone, Ch. 1

This works particularly well if you subscribe to the popular headcanon that Harry is of South Asian descent through James. The Dursleys hate Harry because of his magic, of course, but outright racism would certainly not be out of character for them (read: Vernon’s Japanese golfer joke in Book 2). We already know that people can tell on sight that Harry isn’t a Dursley, and in addition to his shabby, second-hand clothes, being half-Indian would make him stick out even more in their rich, probably mostly white suburban neighbourhood. If Lily had married an Indian wizard, it would have damaged Petunia’s understanding of her own life as being “normal” (read: white and nonmagical). Any attempts to further distance herself from Lily’s life would have proved fruitless when Petunia was then forced to raise a magical, nonwhite child.

[peppermintstranger]

Suggestions for a dark haired/dark eyed James Sirius Potter? Both white and nonwhite options work! Preferably no older than 25, if you can manage. Thank you! 💓💓

Hello there!

You have: Matthew Clavane, Parker van Noord, George Scorus, Jackson Hale, Alex Dragulele, Romain Hamdous.

Hope it helps c:

[antoine-roquentin]

To understand the sovereign citizen belief system, one must understand the history of the movements that preceded and accompany it, including the Christian Identity, tax protest, Posse Comitatus (power of the county), and patriot/militia movements. The Christian Identity movement has its origins in 19th century England, where religious writers advanced the theory that modern European people were the descendants of the lost tribes of the Old Testament.1,2 This belief was introduced into the United States by speakers from England in the late 19th century and was adopted by a small number of people. It became more popular during the Great Depression in the 1930s, when it began to evolve into an anti-Semitic philosophy, particularly on the West Coast, where its primary leader, Wesley Swift, was also active in other extremist groups, including the Ku Klux Klan. In its present form, many Christian Identity adherents believe the nonwhite races were created before Adam and Eve and thus have no soul. They also believe the world is very likely in its last days and thus have little faith in secular institutions, which makes Christian Identity an attractive theology for people who hold antigovernment beliefs, including sovereign citizens and militia members. The Christian Identity theology spread rapidly through right-wing extremist groups in the 1960s, including segregationist groups, the Posse Comitatus movement, and the Aryan Nation. Christian Identity declined as a separate movement in the 1990s, as extremist groups were dismantled by arrests and prosecutions. It is currently believed to be strongest in the Pacific Northwest and the Midwest.1

The tax protest movement began in the 1950s and 1960s and continues to exert a strong influence in right-wing extremist ideology.3,4 This movement coalesced in the late 1950s around the proposed Liberty Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would have banned income, estate, and gift taxes. With the failure of this effort, the more extreme opponents of income taxes moved on to develop arguments that the income tax was nonetheless illegal. In the 1960s, Arthur Porth put forward the argument that the Sixteenth Amendment, which authorized the federal income tax, violates the Thirteenth Amendment, which banned slavery, as citizens were placed into involuntary servitude by their obligation to pay income taxes. Porth later adopted the strategy of writing on his tax form that he was invoking his Fifth Amendment right of avoiding self-incrimination.3 Since then, tax protestors have brought forth a variety of creative strategies and explanations to avoid paying taxes, many of which have been adopted by people who also hold sovereign citizen beliefs. Many tax protestors ended up in court due to their refusal to pay federal taxes, and the courts have not been sympathetic to their arguments. In 1991, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Cheek v. U.S.,5 ruled that tax protestors could not use a good-faith argument to excuse their failure to pay taxes after adopting tax protestor beliefs; this defense was also raised by actor Wesley Snipes and was rejected on appeal.6 The tax protest movement is believed to be an entry point into other extremist belief systems, including Christian Identity and the sovereign citizen philosophy.3 The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) began to challenge tax protest efforts aggressively in the early 1980s, but this focus diminished in the late 1990s, in response to congressional hearings on allegedly abusive practices employed by IRS investigators and cuts in the IRS budget.4

In the late 1960s, the Posse Comitatus movement brought together elements of the Christian Identity and the tax protest movements into secretive, decentralized, and loosely organized extremist groups.7 This movement apparently began as two separate groups in the late 1960s, one led by Henry Beach and the other by William Potter Gale. The latter was a Christian Identity minister who had championed the tax protest movement and became one of the recognized leaders of Posse Comitatus.7,8 Its adherents hold a strong anti-government philosophy and believe that the only legitimate forms of government are those of towns and counties. The common law, as they understand it, is the basis of government, rather than constitutional law, and the sheriff, as the highest legitimate elected official, is supposed to enforce this common law. This movement began in the United States Northwest but became popular in the Midwest during the 1980s, when the U.S. farm economy, particularly small farmers, struggled with a combination of low prices, high debt burdens, and high interest rates, which led to many farm foreclosures.7 In assisting farmers facing foreclosure, Posse Comitatus members tried to intimidate local officials with threats of physical violence and so-called paper terrorism. The latter strategy consisted of filing false liens on the property of targeted officials, filing multiple court documents in an attempt to overwhelm and frustrate the court process, and issuing indictments from common law courts created by local Posse chapters. One Christian Identity and Posse adherent, James Wickstrom, preached to beleaguered farmers that the federal government and taxes were illegal; driver's licenses were a form of tyranny; and, as a sovereign citizen, one could use false money orders to pay taxes.9 Around the same time, Frederick Saussy created the idea of using “public office money certificates,” which he claimed were “redeemable in dollars of the money of account of the United States upon an official determination of the substance of the money of account” to pay taxes.4 The Posse Comitatus movement faded when many of its leaders were convicted of a variety of offenses, ranging from tax evasion and impersonating public officials to plotting assassinations and bomb attacks. A few Posse members violently resisted efforts to arrest them; in 1983, Gordon Kahl, while fleeing federal tax charges, killed three police officers before he was killed in another shootout with police.3 Media reports on these and other high-profile incidents publicized the racist and anti-Semitic underpinnings of the Posse Comitatus and Christian Identity movements, which contributed to their decline in popularity.

The militia movement is the ideological heir to the Posse Comitatus movement. Posse members often engage in paramilitary training in preparation for the struggle to bring the government back to the people, and Posse leaders often call their groups unorganized militias, referring to language in federal and state laws created after the end of compulsory military service.10 The militia movement did not directly derive from the Posse Comitatus movement, but instead grew from anger about the federal government's role in the violent incidents at Ruby Ridge in 1992 and Waco in 1993. These events mobilized Christian Identity and sovereign citizen adherents and catalyzed the growth of armed militias, particularly among those who held radical gun rights beliefs and regarded members of militias as exempt from federal gun laws. Militia members and individual militia groups were quite diverse but were united in their fear of and opposition to the federal government, which they believed was part of a vast conspiracy to strip Americans of their rights. As a result, ideas common to sovereign citizens were popular within these groups. In particular, many militia groups held a strong belief that the United States had a common law heritage that had been abrogated by the federal government and feared that U.S. courts had become military courts. Some of these groups advocated the use of paper terrorism tactics as retaliation and issued fraudulent monetary instruments on their own authority. One of these groups, the Montana Freemen, gained a degree of notoriety in 1996 when they engaged in an 81-day standoff with federal and state law enforcement that ended peacefully.8

The militia movement grew in the mid-1990s, even after law enforcement agencies greatly increased their focus on domestic terrorism in response to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.10 However, by the end of the 1990s, many militia groups had disbanded, and many members were put in prison for violation of firearms laws. The movement did not disappear, however, and appears to have strengthened in recent years.11,12 The recession in 2008, which was accompanied by increased unemployment and many home foreclosures, facilitated the growth of the militia, tax protest, and sovereign citizen movements. Observers of these groups have observed a gradual coalescence of the beliefs of the tax protestors, sovereign citizens, and militia members and have described the combined beliefs as the patriot movement. In addition, anti-immigrant minuteman groups have moved toward the ideology of the patriot movement and have begun to promote sovereign citizen beliefs.13,14 As these movements have grown and come together, they have attracted the attention of federal law enforcement agencies. After Jerry Kane and his son, both sovereign citizen adherents, killed two police officers during a routine traffic stop in 2010, the FBI described extremist sovereign citizens as “a domestic terrorism movement” and a potentially serious threat to law enforcement staff.15 The number of people who hold sovereign citizen beliefs is difficult to measure, given their strong antigovernment beliefs, but the SPLC has tracked a significant increase in the number of patriot movement groups, from 149 in 2008 to 1,274 in 2011; they estimated that 300,000 Americans held sovereign citizen beliefs and 500,000 shared tax protest beliefs.11 Another recent development in the spread of sovereign citizen beliefs has been the growth of these ideas in African-American and prison populations.16 African-American adherents typically subscribe to the belief that they are Moorish American, which gives them privileged legal status, but otherwise hold many sovereign citizen beliefs, such as redemption theory, and apply similar tactics, including misuse of liens and creation of false accounts.