#you even have MULTIPLE Whitest Black People. jaz being lightskin black working father stay at home mom (who is kind of crazy) is WAYYYYY too | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

5-htagonist · 6 months ago

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the boondocks is so good. i dont know what black american archetypal character is missing from that show other than ahhh favorable portrayals of black queerness but 2005 (presumably) cishet man creation so you know how that goes.

#you even have MULTIPLE Whitest Black People. jaz being lightskin black working father stay at home mom (who is kind of crazy) is WAYYYYY too #relatable #her alienation from blackness due to her home life is !!! but she IS undeniably black. my nose is squishy my eyes are deep brown..#my skin dont burn easy and black hair products work better than others for me. i have my dads lips and his hair color.#and my familial experiences are very much shaped by my mixed race #etcetc i cannot fully claim whiteness in any way But my upbringing was super privileged (not bc my parents were upper middle class and #functional like jaz but bc i was taken out of my dads custody and eventually lived w my lower middle class grandparents (which. the #grandparent thing is relatable thru huey. my grandma grew up very poor so she is not from a place of privilege similarly)#but my other relative we lived with grew up upper middle class and ended up lower middle class after the 2008 recession so i was Privileged #due to the lifestyle she had cultivated and was used to #but yaknow i wasnt quite like jaz in the way she is spoiled #not spoiled but yk #its just interesting though bc i have always felt veryyyy alienated from any racial experience cause im 4/8 (half) white 3/8 black 1/8 #cherokee (my dad is a quarter)#and i didnt have a years-long stable home life for a while when i was young #the boondocks showed me a LOT of what ive gone thru is Very Black #obv not just the boondocks and i think my social problems kind of contributes but i will say #my connections to whiteness were A LOT more apparent from a young age but i was confused as to why i didnt fit in exactly with White people #(though ofc socioeconomic situations were more relavant to that)#but yeah my experience is undeniably mixed i just had a lot of trouble reconciling i guess how much of my experiences are black #culturally speaking #sociologically speaking and stuff #unfortunately i have media autism so a lot of my understandings of myself and how i relate to the world have come to me through good stori #s #so im grateful for them #hopefully this doesnt make me look dumb

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