#not to mention that whitevember only happens because blacktober

[shinebrightlikeanarwhal]

I saw this in twittee about whitevember and wanted to hear your opinion: "It's like a school cafeteria. You have all different races are creeds hanging out in there. A white kid slaps a black kid in the back of the head. In response to this, the black kid gets up, walks over to a japanese kid, who had nothing to do with it, and slaps him in the back of the head. Then, as everyone is informing them they are swinging at the wrong person, they say "I don't care" and keep hitting the japanese kid.

What in the seven shades of hell?

So, instead of addressing the problem the first thought was to make a blasphemous comparison to the cycle of racism within minority communities brought on by the instigation of white racists (if you want examples look into the racists within BLM and SAH that pointed at eachother rather than address the root cause).

Anon thank you for bringing this to my attention because clearly people aren’t understanding the full problem of whitevember and why blacktober was never an attack against Asian creators.

First, this isn’t even remotely similar to what Blacktober and whitevember are. Blacktober is just a fun, month long trend for black creators to draw characters that look like them and share their features. This is not against the original asian creator, nor are they implying that the asian characters are better in this new rendition. IN FACT. The mere notion of that comparison is a racial attack that claims the black community would rather attack the asian community (which is not the intention of Blacktober and has been expressed plenty of times). When in actuality black creators are constantly fighting and arguing with white or even OTHER POC aggressors that either claim natural features are asian fishing (eyes, nose, etc), harass them for drawing them in cosplay OR physically cosplaying and many more disgusting things.

In fact, let’s address the main issue.

Blacktober is not and never was an attack on the asian community. It branches far from just anime and into other genres of media. It’s just an artistic portrayal of more black characters or their comfort/favorite characters in a appearance that relates to them.

Whitevember is a racist rebuttal (as most of these white specific groups are). They go out of their way to edit any POC characters or even edited characters to look white (usually blonde with light colored eyes) and claim it is the ‘better’ version. Many times with the reference to bleach (which was a painful process rooted in racist beauty standards that lead many poc in earlier times to try and bleach their skin to fit. They don’t stop at just the black community, they branch into the indigenous and Asian characters.

The reason people find an issue with blacktober is rooted in the racist ideals that black people should not take part in certain things. You cannot tell me otherwise when someone explicitly stated a black girl cosplaying a character was sexual because ‘black bodies are sexual’. When the first argument from white fans is ‘____ isn’t black’ despite their favorite cosplayers being white in predominantly Asian characters. They don’t like black people cosplaying outside of their race, but anyone pale can cosplay the majority of characters. Many of which racially ambiguous depending on the genre.

Now; why is it that the first order of business when black people take offense to blatant racism, the first thought is “but black people attack ___”??

Easy! The first thing racists try to do is separate their target race from others. Isolating them and painting horrible images and spreading terrible misinformation about them. Take into account the swift “Black people black wash Asian characters”. Blackwash means they are stripping the character of their Asian roots, replacing it entirely. Which is incorrect. As stated before, not once was blacktober a month to ‘better’ characters with blackness. It was a month to make characters resemble and relatable to black consumers and fans! Most (because everyone has a bad sees or two) creators have always been respectful to the creators and expressed that this edited or remade version was just something they did for themself.

In comparison, all whitewashed characters actively strip away the character. Many of which are racist creators who despise black people entirely and have voiced said disdain. (Many accounts reverted to calling black people slurs.) It’s pretty obvious the intent in whitevember when the first picture many saw was of a dark skinned pokemon character (who was a target to racists since her first moments shown) drinking bleach to become a pale, blonde haired and blue eyed white girl. That’s quite self evident. Not to mention within whitewashing, they compare black people making edits or drawings of non black characters as blackface or minstrels. Which is ironic coming from the racists-

In summary; that tweet was clearly just someone trying to push the blame onto black people in some preposterous imagine. This isn’t the first nor last time they will try it. In fact, this is probably the dumbest one I’ve heard!! They clearly tried to make the black kid an aggressor when in all honestly if someone hit another person and they SAW who hit them they wouldn’t go out of their way to attack someone else, no matter race. Second of all, it DOES NOT relate to the issue of whitevember. The comparison of black creators embracing themselves and drawing their favs to match them is not the same as literally bleaching a black character and calling it better!!!