verygibbous:

the more i think about it the more uncomfortable i get like

hey white people

do not pretend to be all-knowing and worldly by butting into discussions about tamika flynn being black (which she is, seriously, it’s canon there is no debate here) and saying she could be japanese bc the name is maybe japanese. as an asian person, i highly doubt you’re that knowledgeable at all about japanese names tbh so would you kindly stop pretending to know anything about this specific culture? all you’re doing is derailing the conversation in a rly shitty condescending way

asian people aren’t your passive model minority tools that you can use to silence other poc, especially black people, like. do not do the same thing white society has always done to us, which is pit us against each other for your own creepy benefit and amusement. you don’t speak for us and i would thank you not to try because it’s so fucking dehumanizing

there is a reason why the writers decided to make this incredibly intelligent, respected, resilient, and brave character a young black girl. SPECIFICALLY. how often do you see young black women depicted so positively and without stereotypes? if you’re consciously gonna make her a pretty little white girl instead, you are actively undoing all the good that the show makes an effort to prioritize

and finally, i notice that white people only bring up tamika’s name being possibly japanese when other people, primarily poc, are talking about how happy they are that she’s such a well-written character who is a black girl. i KNOW you never care about other characters being possibly asian when they’re fan favorites typically depicted as white, ie: cecil, earl harlan, etc. in fact, plenty of people have gotten shit for having asian headcanons of those characters and hardly anyone said anything about that, sooo? what’s your deal? why is white tamika so ~sacred, why do you need to defend whitewashing so goddamn hard

don’t use us as your excuse to push your own anti-blackness forward