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Imagine creating the Ghana flag in order to replace the UK flag and rid of it's colonization influence over your country, only for Ian Jones and Rebecca Sugar to be your grandchildren

I'd haunt them!!!

THEY WENT OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MAKE US FEEL BAD FOR THE COLONIZERS I CAN’T STAND IT-

This is her btw. Theodosia Okoh, a teacher and the creator of the Ghana National Flag. Accomplished so much in a lifetime

Only for your grandchild the his partner to create this shit

Also Ghana is just fucking gone in this world, what the hell-

It's not gone it's just part of the now enlarged South America. Nanefua & her son Kofi were both born there.

Also the Zoomans outfit is cute. Just saying.

Oh that just means they aren’t actually African then

Also the Zoomans? The literal human beings placed in a zoo that got to wear sexualized clothing? And want to stay there because actually they are much happier living in a zoo? That’s what you want to call cute?

My point stands that regardless of what continent it's apart of, Ghana still exists in the world of Steven Universe. It's people & culture are still present in the world.

I feel like I shouldn't need to point out that me saying that the Zooman's outfit is cute isn't the same as me condoning what happened to them but apparently I was wrong.

Also kindly refrain from insulting me just because I post something you disagree with. If you feel I got something wrong then you're free to say so, just be respectful.

I already pointed the South American thing out in another reblog and in the tags and how dumb that is. Either way, no I’m not gonna be “respectful” towards racism. Like that’s not gonna happen

No it’s not going to be the same cultures and the same people. The literal reason Ghana’s culture, people and it’s flag (I literally pointed this out in the first post) is the way it is is, because of the effects of colonization. That doesn’t exist in this world though. So no it’s not going to be the same people with the same cultural identities

A lot of Black people in South America in real life are stolen people that come from West Africa. While there are some similarities considering the origins, they still got completely different systems and backgrounds. It’s fucking South America, whole different environment, whole different groups of people’s, whole different languages and resources

Edit: Also you saying the outfits are cute? Guess what? You’re sexualizing indigenous people who are reduced to animals. Do you think people didn’t have your kind of reasoning with actual human zoos?

Let me be abundantly clear about my thinking regarding this post. I saw your post saying Ghana was "gone" in the world of Steven Universe. Knowing that members of the Crewniverse had specifically mentioned Ghana as the birthplace Nanefua Pizza, I pointed this fact out. I was correcting a factual inaccuracy nothing more.

Likewise with my saying the outfit worn by the Zoomans is cute. I think it's well designed and the blue & white go well together. That was the extent of my thinking. I wasn't "sexualizing" anyone, I was commenting on clothing worn by fictional characters.

This was literally my entire thought process.

“ALYA AND NINO HAD ONE JOB!!!”

And what job is that exactly? Being the Black Best Friend for these White leads?

They still are doing just that. Being a Black Best friend basically means:

The real purpose of a Black Best Friend is to just make the White lead look good or better in comparison. And both Alya and Nino did just that, yall sympathizing for the White characters even more. Why? Because the mean Black people can’t read minds and misunderstood these White characters’ feelings and intentions. Nevermind the fact said White characters give these Black characters a reason why they would conclude with these assumptions. We as the audience assume that a Black Best Friend must always be in agreement, otherwise they are worst than Satan. (Actual sentence I’ve encountered numerous times for Black characters)

The Black Best Friend will be OOC when the narrative calls for it.

Alya and Nino didn’t help Marinette with the Adrien situation because the narrative called for it. That simple. We needed some sort of proof that Marinette and Adrien have a deep and close personal bond-even though the show does nothing to demonstrate this for the majority of the plot. This was just the easiest way: Pretending that these Black characters (who show how easily they can pick up when their White friends are upset on numerous occasions) are all of a sudden oblivious

Being the Black Best Friend isn’t a “one job” gig; it’s a whole ass corporation for this one White character.

The racism and antiblackness in this fandom have always been bad. But damn yall do love to show up when Black History Month comes around, I guess

Anyways, y'all might as well learn something- here are some links and videos that go more into this stupid trope.