Ask and you shall receive, although I’m sure most of us are sick to death of seeing these pictures now
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I think one of the things that people forget is that you can still be a POC and be a blackfish. So even if she’s 1% black she still changes her skin tone to look
significantly darker than what she naturally is without going through the struggles, judgement and detrimental behaviour that people with that tone naturally have to go through.
I’m sure Claire doesn’t get stopped by the police for racial profiling, doesn’t get search at the airport Every. Single. Time just because she’s the same colour as a ‘terrorist’. I will even bet my house on the fact that she doesn’t get followed around the shops by security thinking she’ll steal stuff just because of her colour. These are just the tip of the iceberg things that POC go through everyday, but she’ll never understand that because she wants the colour but not the treatment and that’s why she deserve to be called out.
As individuals we can stand there and say ‘there’s no point saying anything, it’s not going to change anything’ and for mason, it probably won’t. He will need something much bigger to open his eyes and that will come in time. Karma is a bitch that will slap him in the face HARD. Maybe we could even get Claire to realise how much damage she doing, but I don’t think she even wants to hear, as she probably thinks everyone is just jealous of her being mason secret shag
But here’s where it will make a difference, it will make a difference to young girl/boy who is a POC lurking on tattle or tumblr or tiktok thinking ‘it’s not fair, why doesn’t anyone else care, why is no one saying anything?’ It makes a difference to them, it makes their struggles feel seen and heard and makes them realise that they are not alone, that’s the difference we can make.
Thank you for taking the time to listen to my Ted talk on blackfishing, I appreciate you 🩵