Blackwashing - Tumblr Posts
Dear tumblr
White washing and black washing are the same thing.
For the people that dont know (I took these from someone elses port when i find it again ill edited in)(edits from @aminnablack ) i hope im right
Lets get things cleared.
BLACK WASHING EXIST JUST LIKE WHITE WASHING EXIST.
The reason people got mad of this is because someone made Nessa white, and people started harassing the artist over it(I think ,but might be possible because SJW exist) but people never say anything over people making a white character black. I still remember when someone edited ALL of the mha characters in different skin colors ( they made deku black) and I saw a post about explaining how why making a black character white is racist but making a white character black isn't like what?!?!?
Black people can be racist too just like white people can, because were all human, were all the same just with different ethnicities.
I personally dont care about the race of a character because if you can make a white character black the it can be done vice versa. But I hate people harassing each other about whitewashing, when their the same people that black wash characters. I just want us to treat each other as equals. Please? I hope I dont anger anybody (which might be imposible) but I hope you take it into consideration
It bothers me when I see people just go “black washing isn’t bad!” And ignore all the stereotypes people can make, even unintentionally , and I’m definitely not immune to falling into that trap myself
Why Blackwash an Asian Character?
I’ve noticed a few people will draw fanart of asian characters/media but they always change them to be black, redesign them to be black, or just insists that they are black when cannonically they’re Asian. I don’t hate it, I just don’t understand it. I become mainly annoyed at the fact they go on to claim it’s representation for minorities, but Asians are a minority. Why are some of you erasing a race that’s primarily already hypersexualized and discriminated against? Asian characters aren’t white, and they aren’t black. They are Asian. This isn’t even going into the fact some people will do redesigns that look like a horrible racial stereotype.
Okay, my personal opinion is that kaveh If he were to be any different skin color other than white, it would be like a really nice tan because he's often in the sun because of his job, but alhaitham usually stays inside so I don't understand why. Whenever people blackwash them, they always make the feeble scholar that's always staying inside darker than the one that's always outside regularly in the desert and is an architect. I personally think that either he burns or freckles or burn freckles I'm talking about kaveh Just so you know
Blackwashing.
I've seen a ton of blackwashing throughout the tmc fandom and I'm starting to kinda fear for people and how moldable most peoples minds are. Most of us blackwash a certain character and get praise for it, yet I think it's not fair when white people ended up getting death threats because they accidently made a tan colored person lighter or whatever. I used to think it was okay to blackwash because I was afriad of being threatened because I made a certain characters skin too bright.. yet it's alright to darken it?? Most people believe that blackwashing isn't even real, which isn't true at all. Blackwashing is the same as whitewashing, just the other way around. Yes white people created racism.. but heres the funny thing, you could be racist to white people (whaaaat!!!?!??!) Crazy right? People are afraid of sharing out that it's wrong to blackwash because they are scared of being threatened or hurt, most people know it's a thing, yet they stay quiet. Blackwashing is in any fandom, like genshin impact for an example.. People are changing most characters races for some reason.. sure it's a headcanon but it could be disrespectful if they're a specific race for a specific reason. But specifically in the TMC fandom, people are mostly blackwashing Jonah, which I find kinda.. sad. Like I said, most people make him darker because they're used to seeing most art making him dark like.. dark dark. Yes most hispanics are pretty dark, as a tan hispanic myself, I have a dark uncle that looks black yet he's hispanic and its perfectly normal.. but now, when you darken tan characters, like Jonah Marshall.. or Gabriel Linan technically speaking.. it's basically blackwashing, but if you make him lighter, it's automatically racist and you're a whitewasher.
Gabriel is pretty light compared to most shades that i've seen in drawings of Jonah Marshall. I'm not trying to say that you should bash everyone who darkens his skin by a little bit, nobody is perfect.. actually most of these shades that people color him in are pretty accurate (most i didn't color down.) I'm also just trying to share out my experience and explaination to why blackwashing is as equally as bad as whitewashing. If you want representation.. I think making an OC could be nice. This post really wasn't too much about Gabriel Linan, I just wanted to state about the issue around most fandoms and communities.. and to educate people about blackwashing. I don't really know what made me want to post this, but maybe it was because me and my friend were talking about how racist it was to change the race of a certain character entirely (no specific character.) My friends friend also told me that blackwashing wasn't even real, which I didn't understand.. we are so molded to peoples beliefs that we just end up being okay and praise the people who turn characters dark, because of representation. But it's quickly flipped when people lighten their skin and yelled at. If someone black washed mulan, the disney character.. it'd be considered rude for the asian people because of the representation mulan has in the movie.. about her culture and race, yeah most of it was sterotypical because of disney but it still had sometype of representation. Now this is just.. my opinion on the situation, but other than that.. feel free to believe anything. I'm not trying to make anyone mad or angry, I just wanted to share out what I think about it.. I just don't think it's okay.