This was an idea that sprang out of a moment where I was tired, and REALLY was regretting the decision to start coloring the comic strip. It was a whole lot easier, but the color really seems to be clicking with folks, so there's no going back. That SAID, I could still poke fun at the idea like this.
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y’all are obsessed with assuming every black person online critiquing ur antiblackness is american. it’s sick, knowing how y’all treat your black compatriots and fellow countrymen. so quick to erase them from the conversation. but don’t worry we’re assembling the african diaspora voltron and setting the record straight.
the zendaya thing isnt even a new phenomenon by any means!! the article mentions margot robbie wearing the taj mahal diamond as well, and in addition to that i also want to remind people that diljit dosanjh's request to wear the patiala necklace for the 2025 met gala was denied by cartier because they said it was in a museum and could not be loaned. however they had no issues at all loaning it to emma chamberlain, a white woman, for the 2022 met gala, while they turned down the request of a punjabi man who wanted it to honor his heritage.
this behavior is nothing new. the global south and everything in it - the people, the culture, our heritage - is seen as nothing more than a decoration or commodity to colonizers. i don't even need to bring up the koh i noor or the entire british museum; these examples are recent and egregious enough on their own.
of course this is not to imply that any of the people involved here - zendaya, margot robbie, or emma chamberlain - had any sort of malicious intentions. but the ignorance is just as bad in my opinion. the ignorance is just as harmful, if not more. because it means we are not even an afterthought. it means that the real people and histories and heritages of the global south do not even register when these people are putting together looks for their movie premiers and met gala appearances. everything is just reduced down to a shiny piece of jewelry whose history they need not bother with. it's just a continued reminder of the way colonization affects us all even long after independence, of how barely-healed wounds keep being reopened even decades later. even now, we are being denied connections to our histories and heritages while they are freely being given out to those that have nothing to do with it and don't care for it. and i'm sick of it.
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But the war took everything from us… 💔
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What’s the point of Cracker Barrel if whites won’t even eat there? They don’t even respect their own culture or institutions but complain of white genocide.
But maybe your race wouldn’t be going extinct if more of you were getting pregnant in the bathroom stall of a Cracker Barrel like the good old days when America was great.
Now they’re rawdogging in the bathroom stall of a boutique dive bar that serves raw angus burgers with lemon truffle aioli. What has happened to this nation?
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