Not to make light of the situation but if anyone knows about that emoblackthot Twitter situation, even though this situation is extremely different from emoblackthot’s situation; the two of them cosplaying as a black woman is still disturbing. That’s the only thing I can relate it to. I’ve had so many conversations with my hgs about digital blackface and how it damages black people, not just the fact our trust has been ripped away from us but the fact that other people feel so comfortable doing that. If you have to put on a “show” to gain an audience that IS a caricature. I don’t care for the excuse of, “Oh, I didn’t know.” You absolutely did, which is why you did it in the first place.
Tricking who knows how many people because of the aesthetic of your account and you possibly using AAVE/Ebonics, especially at a time like now where everyone treats it as internet/gen-z/tiktok slang and not an actual language with history and black American culture behind it, is disgusting. It is offensive, what you are doing is distasteful, and what you have done is absolutely unacceptable.
I’m frustrated even more because I’ve dealt with something like this before. It’s frustrating as a black woman because you’re thinking you’re finding new people to build a community with, someone who has the same and similar experiences as you. Only for that to be a lie, there is no excuse for it. It’s a mockery towards black people, that’s exactly what it is, a mockery. Because if you really care about black people you would have never done that, never. These actions are a form of racism to some extent, there’s no way it isn’t, and someone might try to tell me no. But racism doesn’t always have to be someone blatantly using a slur to another person, racism is so broad and so embedded in society.
Racism towards black people is deeply embedded, so when people who pretend to be black on social media, it’s sometimes not taken seriously like it’s supposed to be by other communities outside of the black community.
