That sonic post got me thinking a lot, because im glad im not the only who notices people being fine with shadow or knuckles being Black (especially darker skinned) but sonic's blackness is either denied or he is always explicitly light skin. Now, there's nothing wrong with sonic being light skinned, the problem is a lot of people ONLY ever draw sonic light skinned whereas shadow and knuckles are more often than not, dark-skinned, i rarely ever see sonic depicted with a deeper skin tone.
Now its not just sonic fans (primarily nonblack ones) i see this with, its really common in the mlp community too, specifically with how a lot of people defult rarity to white, what beacuse she's prissy, high class and has a white color scheme? Its always been werid to me. It happens with Celestia and Luna too, Luna always being depicted as darker skinned while Celestia is always fairer skinned.
People are doing this with deltarune characters too in a sense "Noelle and birdly cant be black beacuse of x reason!"
Its really werid and racist and idk if some of yall know how yall sound but, newsflash, black people are people, therefore diverse in looks and personality among other things. Crazy i know right? Who would have thought..
