The Kinetic Kemetic

ethiopienne:

sapphrikah:

novamatic:

flymetothemooon:

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

liquornspice:

urbanuncertainty:

Looks like Issa Rae read the open letter from the CFC

“Respectfully, “Awkward Black Girl” was never meant to be politically correct. We poke fun at ignorance. Response letter coming soon.”

This does not look promising :(

oh wow.

fuck you issa rae. unless your plan is to poke fun at yourself for being transphobic and anti-asian.

oh no…

Nope. I fall on the side of the creator with this one. I’ve written characters that have said some careless, ignorant shit but it is not a reflection of my personal views or beliefs. A flawless character is not a character. Fictional characters will not always be someone that you 100% agree with. Just because you identify with them in one aspect is no guarantee that you’ll identify with them in another. Even when the character is the heroine/protagonist/lead.

And I take firm exception to attempting to regulate the script of the show by stating “we hope that by raising this concern you will respond accordingly by not using such language in future episodes.”

Who’s writing this thing anyway?

However, to anyone that has concluded based on dialog that the creator is irresponsible or multi-phobic go ahead and boycott. Withdraw your support. We all know that’s what’s coming next. Backlash has increasingly become the foundation of Internet discourse.

Oof. I’m so straddled on this. The thing is, I guess when it comes down to it, just like how I feel about Misfits problematics, that doesn’t at all indicate that the writers/creators don’t know why their characters are problematic, or share the same views as their character.

People write things that reflect this problematic world. Otherwise it’d be unrealistic. But personally, if I wrote something with an offensive ass character, I know I wouldn’t be able to let myself not have a protagonist element/character soon follow up on that and point that out. For the sake of spelling out the rights and wrongs for viewers/readers and to properly, even if subtly, reflect my actual views.

Either way, I don’t like this response so far, from Issa Rae. Whether its meant to be “politically correct” or not, if you offended somebody, somebody who has most likely been a faithful viewer up until now—which you should remember and appreciate because without viewers you basically don’t exist as a show—apologize, take that to heart and take it into account. Basic humyn respect. You offend somebody, then freakin’ pay respect to that. ESPECIALLY if you are not a part of the marginalized group you offended, because you don’t and can never understand that POV. Just out of respect. If you really meant no harm, that should not be hard. It reflects better on yourself, and takes a lot less energy than defending offensive shit, to just listen and be decent about it. F’real.

Yeah, I agree with everything Sapphrikah said.

Nah, all she said was a joke on Angelina Jolie not not transphobic at all. This was taken way out of context. Oh well Internet fodder capitalizes agayne💩💤

Source: urbanafrofuturism