You do realize that most of the characters that you drew for Blacktober were mostly(if not all) Asian, right? Black washing is bad, so don’t do it. It’s literally the same thing as whitewashing.
There’s a big difference, genius. For one thing, Whitewashing isn’t necessary when almost every character in animation looks like them. So right off the bat you’re comparing one race to another that aren’t standing on the same starting blocks. Sounding very loud and wrong to me. For white people, there’s no incessant desire within them to be seen on screen because they almost always are, so why would they need to whitewash? It’s been long established that there exists an infrastructural issue pertaining to lack of POC representation in the film industry. Blackwashing would not be an issue if that problem was addressed, right? An Issue creates Mitigation Strategies— and well... This is one of them. It’s not about us not wanting the characters to be white. It’s about us desiring to feel that often overlooked comfort that other races have the luxury of feeling when they physically relate to a character. This feeling is often dismissed because other races are so used to it, but imagine the race that rarely ever gets to experience that.
How is it the same thing when white people see themselves every time they turn on the screen? How is it the same thing when my people have to witness a group of kids picking a character to ‘be’ on their favourite cartoon and then see the black kids’ faces fall because they can’t seem to choose any of them? They hear ‘no, that can’t be you!’ from the other kids because they don’t fit in.
12-year-old-me seeing Princess Tiana for the first time was NOT the same thing as one of my white gfs seeing Princess Elsa #45, you feel me?
The whitewashing that you speak of occurs in film or television. Its different on Twitter. In MMP’s theres a hierarchical function at work that may be explained similar to the myth of reverse racism. This is social media. It’s not our fault that black culture = popular culture. blactober was created for a demographic of anime fans that just want to see/feel what it would be like to see ourselves in our favourite shows for once. To experience that shit that most take for granted. In other words, to allow black people a reason to be able to say, “hey, that looks like me!” for a moment, and then return to the same anime in which the characters actually look nothing like me, lol. We’re not emailing the fucking animators begging them to change the actual anime or canon script, we’re still supporting and watching, but for one month out of the year artists that look nothing like the canon characters they draw EVERYDAY said what the hell & chose to use a shade that represented themselves. that shouldn’t be an issue. There is fanon representation changing anime characters to being whole ass pedofiles but you’re over here? Like I said, bye.
Black people did this FUBU on Black Twitter specifically. The artists are not pushing this on anyone nor are they asking for yours or anyone’s damn approval on the matter, so perhaps.... mind your fucking business next time.
