Everyone loves the idea of increased diversity in a macro sense, but no people group seems to want it on a micro level. Everyone agrees that other races should be more inclusive and “integrate” toward a desired diverse mainstream, but seem to want to preserve their own races individuality. Wherever people have the…
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A young mixed man (black dad, white mom, non-passing) was shot in the back by police while fleeing from a stop that they’d made because he’d been walking around in Samurai Champloo cosplay and carrying a sword just like that one. No discipline, no indictments; they got off scot-free because he was “waving it around”…
This is for ChadWithTheGoodHair. I’m responding to your post, Tza, to avoid responding to his greyed post.
A black biracial young man was killed by the cops for cosplaying with a clearly fake decorative dollar store sword two years ago ... So nope
There was a thing in the last year or two where a guy carrying a cosplay sword got the cops called on him.
I hate that I need to repeat this (a position that I KNOW you are intimately familiar with, Mr Harriot!) BUT:
I view it two fold:
I’d suggest that going on social media and holding up a sword to try and bring light to racism is about as effective as trying to stop a rampaging bull with a piece of undercooked spaghetti.
Were they bad? I wouldn’t say so. Were they funny? Not really. Like some of the shit he says about trans people is just ignorant. Just a complete misunderstanding of things. Read a book Dave. There’s a rape joke he uses in a round about way to defend Bill Cosby which I thought was offensive on both ends. Offensive is…
Alternate headline.
the question is not when can he go to hell, but rather when can we get out of it.
Ku Klux Keebler, perfecting his 1950's way-back machine.
Old Beauregard doing what his klan mammy and pappy and his State taught him. Put all the dark folk in jail no matter if they committed a crime. Just lock them up.
I think there are a number of things that can be done to this POS motherfucker that might change his mind about “worst things.” I suggest we start immediately.
I did say ‘overall’. But also, I stand by what I said - I have no problem reading a non-white, non-male story (and I’m sure you don’t either), but if you asked me for an ‘average’ character, I’d show you a white man out of habit.
It’s upsetting, a book seen as black will immediately lose most white readers, severely limiting sales. Why? Because overall, we white men see ourselves as the ‘default’, making reading books like The Crew a scary leap - yet we expect all races and genders to accept white male as their default too.
Lol. No.
“A lot of people are just done with being inundated with monotony. I have no issue with having a white, straight, or male character in a comic book, but when you’re constantly being reminded that you’re reading about white, straight, or male character, it gets old.”