I am a person. Represent me as such.

OK OK OK this is in reference to the Trayvon Martin case in which everyone agrees that the kid was shot because he was black or looked suspicious

what I and some others are trying to argue is that he looked suspicious cause he was black and there are people out there with a vested interest in equating the two. This is problematic in average everyday life as it can result in for example not getting hired for a job// in this extreme cause the perpetuation of the “scary black man” mythos gets a child murdered.

So the question is not. Whether or not Zimmy here is a an actual i hate black people racist but how can we address the structural racism that exists within our society that infiltrates our mind and mostly causes people to want to shoot us.

I have already posted this clip a lot earlier but i think it is the perfect example and HOPEFULLY should explicate how such mythos function in our society whether the individual has personal hate feelings or is just crazy paranoid

you many have noticed a bunch of tweets about the hunger games concerning rue

now i have never read the hunger games - or even heard of it till the movie rumors started

and from what i can gather it sounds like some awesome class warefare battle royale type shit

additionally i can gather that the character Rue was a small frail cute looking girl

which appears to be exactly what they cast

The problem is of course that as black hasn’t ever been represented as anything

• feminine
• attractive
• cute
• small
• frail
• or innocent looking

if you note the comments.

because books are one of the few places the mas media and the powers at be do not completely control… normal people who don’t happen to be white get written about all the time *gasp*

Rue was a character that many identified with and because we are not represented in this country in a manner that is well- human, people tend to project.

In one case you see a pale red head tweet that she thought that Rue was a pale red head. Personal biases aside the media still generally is in charge of shaping who and what we think can be innocent or fail or anything. So despite the fact that the book explicitly states that she is brown, dark skinned, dark haired, just like another character in the book only dark, so forth.

People’s minds cannot processes what in their heads is illogical so they go into denial or change things around in their head. They do anything to correct what they believe is an error - because that character Rue that was most likely written as a person -could never be black.

well past halfway through Merlin (middle of season three)

……and it still appears to hate women, and it’s pretty fucking racist

i was hoping praying for improvement

all the women are evil

except for the whole virginal dead mother trope

- no rationale

not on the wrong side of the fight

not justified in their anger

Just pure fucking evil

oh wait one chick merlin was crushin on was not evil she was just a viscous murdering monster that had to be killed - GOOD TIMES

even gwen cooper is evil!

the only non evil one is the other gwen

sorry that’s not her

she’s just so happy to wait on the royal family i get a bit confused

there we are

so the morale of this lovely series seems to be

• bitches better know their place and wait on us
• have faith in the rich (white) and powerful to eventually become less atrocious 
• men *ahem (Uther) can do whatever horrible things he wants FORGIVENESS but that Morgana whoa now!

or

• bitches are all mother fuckin demon spawn that need to be taken down

so i really don’t think it’s going to improve

damn if they weren’t so freakin adorable together

fuck already!

this concludes my summarization of how dissapointing Merlin is 

thank you, good day

seriously though

k thankx