nerdlingwrites: secondlina:usuallysublimepenguin:Wendy matters.She’s a wonderful charact
nerdlingwrites: secondlina: usuallysublimepenguin: Wendy matters. She’s a wonderful character from the comic Namesake, highly recommended! Beautiful!!! Wendy is a great character, and I love her, but drawing a fictional black character and associating her with black lives matter in this way is breathtakingly gross and racist. Real people are being slowly and torturously choked to death. Real people are being shot multiple times in their own home. Real people are being murdered in police custody. Real children are being shot to death. Real people are being enslaved by the prison system. Wendy doesn’t matter because WENDY ISN’T REAL. Wendy isn’t even the creation of a black artist. The fact that you thought this was appropriate means you need to log off Tumblr, put down your drawing software, and go educate yourself on the REAL LIFE struggles of black people. It means you need to learn to find empathy outside of a fictional universe. This isn’t representation, this isn’t support, this isn’t solidarity. This is insulting and dehumanizing and is another example of someone not being able to show empathy for actual black people vs. fictional black people. You should be ashamed of yourself, and frankly, so should everyone who reblogged this uncritically. I am ashamed of myself. I am so sorry.https://blacklivesmatter.com/ -- source link
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