#this is why we gotta talk about colourism and not just racism in a vacuum

[leikeliscomet]

Obviously if you know this page my race and Doctor Who Takes are very Martha-Martha-Bill-Martha but has anyone clocked how Ryan is just... never brought up in these convos? Like at all? When nuwho only had RTD and Moffat it was Martha and Bill-centred bc they were the only Black companions but we've had a whole extra era and its main Black companion is barely acknowledged? I never see anyone (minus the loudest parts of Chibnall-era stans but even then its mainly Yaz and Thirteen-focused tbh) talking about how he's the first dark-skinned disabled Black boy as a companion, how they liked Ryan's natural hair, how reaffirming it was to see the Doctor defend their Black companion (Thirteen did this in Rosa but its never spoken about like Twelve and Thin Ice?), how he's the first Black British companion in this British show to actually reference Black Brit culture (he speaks a lil Black British Vernacular and mentioned grime once but it's something lmao). Outside of hating him which is a bit wild bc how can u hate someone who u said didn't do anything in the first place nobody talks about Ryan Sinclair. And yh Chibnall is a lil bit to blame by leaving out his YT channel, his mum etc. but he is a Black companion and he does exist.