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intothespideyverses · 6 years

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listen boycotting grownish because of its litebrite cast is fine. it’s a cute show but I know the premise isn’t for everyone and no ones gonna go the extra mile to watch something they normally wouldn’t watch anyway for some beige ass representation. THAT BEING SAID...yall really called yara “racially ambiguous”??? are you really making this girl defend her blackness when she has done nothing but be pro black this whole time? she isn’t alexandra shipp’s stupid tone deaf ass, or kid flash whose name I forget that agreed with her (and I’m pretty sure yall let what he said slide so uh :/). it’s just funny how 2 weeks ago we were praising her for being a rare unignorant lightskin and now people are calling her “nonblack passing” IM SCREAMING. also...where is it not obvious that she’s black??? I’m confused.

tbh keep this same energy when love, simon comes out if we’re gonna act like this -_- all the black characters are lightskin and they all came to defend al*xandra. hell keep this up w/ all shows featuring solely lightskins. yall will support something with a token lightskin before this, which like I said...its okay I guess. but idk why this particular show has stricken such a personal ire against a teenage girl who doesn’t deserve it. blame the producers not yara...tf is wrong with yall?

#yall: meghan markle is a black queen!!#yall 2 seconds later: yara shahidi is racially ambiguous :/#grownish #sidebar simon vs was a great book and i rly wish i could watch the movie but alexandra shipp is truly a dumbass lmaooo #but anyway as much as i would love support for this show...I get it #it makes it look like no one darker than a paper bag goes to college #it gave nonblacks more opportunities than darkskinned actors #but heres the hot take...most shows and movies that are big on this site do that......#i dont want to see no more valkyrie on my dash or the lightskin from got or w/e if this is how we're treating yara #or the flash lets not forget that #HELL IVE SEEN THE GREATEST SHOWMAN ON MY DASH LIKE....ok #i love Z and i know most of yall do too but if folks turned on yara this fast........#i would get it if she said some stupid shit but she literally acknowledged that colorism was a problem with the cast so #i guess the real issue here is that most black folk (on here at least) want to see representation in speculative fic like scifi and fantasy #so i guess that explains why yall will nut over a single lightskin being in some boring fantasy or superhero show #but like...still.....thats sad. we need to demand better from all of these shows #not just the ones you dont like #and correct me if I’m recalling this incorrectly but didn’t people give dear white people more of a chance when that was CLEARLY garbage?#i should probably just put all these tags in their own post skjhkdh

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