DAMN, LAY OFF THE BLEACH

BRHood: By request. The author’s last name is “Foyt,” not “Hoyt.” I don’t care enough to go back and correct it.

blackridinnhood:

So, I was GONNA do a video regarding this, but I decided to type stuff out. Because it’s hard for me to organize my thoughts when talking on a video.

Save the Pearls. By now, most of us know the controversy. If not, just google it because I don’t want to waste time on the background.

To start off, the premise of it, while not something I would agree with 100%, COULD have been done well. The author, Victoria Hoyt, could have use this book as a way to make racial oppression more relatable to white people. As a white woman, she could have used her book to allow white people to connect to racism (because they’re too sociopathic to do it when it’s a black person) and educate her white readers on their white privilege.

Instead, she creates a book that vilifies Black people, as if that’s anything new, champions a white woman “breaking beauty ideals” (again, how is this new?), and creates a lot of excuses for racist material (ie, blackface).

Let’s first focus on this world Hoyt creates. Black people are the ones in power, and the top of the beauty food chain, while whites are at the bottom (well, albinos are at the VERY bottom, but you get it). Her reasoning for this, which she repeatedly states could happen, is that global warming killed most of the white people and the Black people survived. This logic is failed for numerous reasons. For starters, it completely ignores how the skin of PoC works. Black people CAN get burnt in the sun. As well as even get skin cancer. While our skin makes the heat more bearable (thus why I’m loving the feeling of Hell right now), it doesn’t mean we are immune to sun damage.

Another reason why this logic fails is that it doesn’t address how Black people came to be in power. As a whole, we are not in a position of power. Period. If global warming started to kill people, white people, particularly the middle class/wealthy white people, would be able to gather means to keep themselves alive. Those without, mostly PoC, would burn up/get cancer/etc and eventually die.

So in conclusion, the world she creates would not happen hypothetically, unless some other event before the “meltdown” to put Black people in a position to use resources to protect themselves.

This leads me to discuss how Eden views Black people and how they’re villainized in the story. The Black people in story are just cruel and vicious. From her boss, who is apparently “mysterious” with no real past; to her supervisor, a “voluptuous,” vicious, “bitch; to the government officials who obviously don’t care if Eden gets her basic supplies cut off. Save for Jamal (I stopped reading soon after he appeared, so I have no idea how her relationship with him pans out), there is no Black person who is sympathetic. Eden herself notes, after hurling a racial slur at her supervisor, that even those she thought were okay with her were willing to turn on her when she insulted “their kind” (phraseology used).

Why is this problematic? Because in a real society that vilifies Black people and PoC already, Hoyt creates a society where the reader has justification to hate them. In other words, how is she challenging the status quo? When Eden thinks “I hate them,” it’s easy for a (white) reader to sympathize with her. Especially when there is a very good chance that many white readers will have these thoughts about PoC, even on a subconscious level. Eden’s hatred plays at that subconscious of white readers who, while they may normally believe themselves racist for saying “I hate Black people,” will justify it with racist “colorblind” theory. “I don’t I hate them because they’re BLACK. It’s because they’re ‘bad people’ in general.”

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What do you mean ‘historically accurate’? You’d be hard pressed to find a region of the world where, at any point in recorded history, PoC were particularly unusual.

BRHood: This is true. Thus why I put it in quotes. I mean, there’s no real conflict, honestly. Unless you MAKE it one. :/

I get that, and don’t understand why anyone would do it in the first place; I was just wondering re: the label fitting it. I’ll take that as a yes. Sorry for any headdesking I caused. I appreciate your replies. :)

BRHood: Oh. I see. You don’t have any reading comprehension skills. I’m sorry. They have schools for that if you can afford it.

WE HAVE 2000+ FOLLOWERS!

Honestly, I just wanted to make quick post saying thanks for the love and following. Again, you guys make all of this worth it. :3

Thanks for all the support you guys!

I have read the FAQ, multiple times, which is why I was hoping to find a more conclusive answer. Regardless, thank you for your time. :)

BRHood: Oh really? You read it? Funny, because we say:

THOUGH EACH MOD HAS A DIFFERENT OPINION ON CERTAIN ASPECTS OF IT, WE ALL AGREE THAT REGARDLESS OF RACE/ETHNICITY, IT IS WRONG TO DARKEN ONE’S SKIN IN ANY WAY FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF COSPLAYING.

DARKEN ONE’S SKIN IN ANY WAY FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF COSPLAYING.

IN ANY WAY FOR THE SOLE PURPOSE OF COSPLAYING.

IN ANY WAY

IN ANY WAY

IN ANY WAY

IN ANY WAY

IN ANY WAY

So either you’re a liar and didn’t read, or for some reason, you can’t read. Because we DID answer that in our FAQ. 

theblacksupremacist:

oumkhartoum:

I am so bored of you self proclaimed anti-racists who have a problem with the nationalism at the Olympics and choose to act like the motivation for being prideful in your country is the same among all teams. Continue to completely disregard that what you call nationalism in the European teams is the belief that they are superior, while some of our teams are prideful in our resilience against that very belief and the repercussions it has had on our nations.

THIS THIS A MILLION TIMES THIS

fucknofetishization:

fucknofetishization:

Which was due to the fact that was either in the ‘Asian fetish’, ‘Jungle fever’, ‘Yellow fever’, ‘Latina fetish’, etc. tag. 

Here’s what you can do. Apologize for posting, whatever it is that you posted. And move on. I’ll even give you a sentence so that you won’t mess up in get yourself into a bigger mess.

“I apologize for posting something offensive in the tag. I’ll never do it again and I’ll go educate myself on why racial fetishes (or jokes on racial fetishes) are not okay.” 

Here’s what I don’t want to read. 

“It’s a joke, calm down.” or “It’s a joke get the stick out of your ass.”  or “Learn to take a joke.”

“I don’t have a fetish, there’s nothing offensive about *insert fetish*”

“You’re just jealous.” 

“My *insert race* friends don’t have a problem with it or me.” 

“Stop being offended by every little thing.” or “Social justice sallies like you are what’s wrong with tumblr” or “Stop being such a social justice sally”. 

“So what if I have a fetish it’s none of your business.” or “It’s none of your business stop telling others what to do” or “Stop bashing other people.” 

“It’s not a fetish it’s love.”  (Yes someone said this)

I don’t want to read any of that at all. Yes, I’m going to bash people who have racial fetishes, they’re not okay. They creep people out. They lead PoC to get harassed, sexually assaulted or raped. 

Racial fetishes are not fucking cute or funny. They’re nothing to joke about at all. 

Reblogging for people to see again, I told y’all I do not want to read any of those excuses.