I’ve realized that the more diverse a cast is, the easier it is to spot the racist fans. They won’t ship a white main character with the black girl who’s his love interest because it’s “heteronormative” (it isn’t) and they want more “gay representation”. But then when his best friend is also a person of color they don’t ship them together because they just “don’t see them that way”. But then they’ll headcanon a Tragic Whiteboy Backstory for the kid that said literally 8 words to the main character. That kid will be their favorite character, their sweet little “cinnamon roll”and there’ll be 40,230 m/m fics of him and the main character. “Representation”. My ass. 

Sometimes you can even tell when the creators are racist fucks because they blithely ignore the obvious chemistry between the while male lead and his Black female counterpart. They will then throw same-race love interests at them both, over and over again, insisting they work better as friends, despite the actors and fans all thinking otherwise. When that doesn’t work they diminish the female lead’s role over. Then promptly kill her off, making sure to explicitly state her job was to support the white male lead and now that job was over. Not to mention a truckload of questionable treatment she received behind the scenes. And then blithely continue for at least another season, as if the relationship and chemistry of those two characters wasn’t the main point/draw of the show.

*Insert tea drinking gif of choice here*

Racebent Sharon Carter

First off, I’d like to thank this blog and its moderators for constantly fighting for POC, something that fandom usually sucks at.

One of the best things that I’ve seen on Tumblr from the MCU fandom is the post about racebent Tony Stark (a character I’m not a particularly large fan of) and how interesting it would be to see Tony’s character evolve if he were a black man, which got me thinking, “you know who else that might be interesting for? Sharon Carter.”

Sharon Carter, a young, black girl who was adopted by one of Peggy’s offspring and even though she loved her new family, she never felt like she quite fit in when her new sisters and cousins wanted to dress up as and do school reports about Nancy Wake and Dr. Mary Walker.  Those ladies were cool, but meanwhile, Sharon was reading about the lesser-known women of color who were just as important to US military history, like Gertrude Ivory Bertman, Carmen García Rosado, and Cathay Williams. 

Sharon, who one day confides in Aunt Peggy and tells her that her hair and skin tone, different from those of her sisters and cousins, are made fun of at school. Aunt Peggy listening when Sharon tells her of incidences of racism she experiences at her predominately white school and Peggy understanding that this little black girl is going through things that she, as a white woman, will never go through.  Peggy Carter embracing Sharon as the tears evoked by the bullying of her peers roll down Sharon’s face and Aunt Peggy telling Sharon that her value exceeds the limitations of the minds of others, and Sharon fully believing in her Aunt’s words.  

Peggy recognizing that she’s in a position of power and going to Sharon’s school to ask the principal why her niece’s complaints about racism are being ignored.  Aunt Peggy standing up for her niece and being a positive example of a true ally.

Sharon Carter exemplifying that black girl magic, doing exceptionally well in high school and studying international relations and criminal justice while in college. By her senior year of college, she’s on her way to becoming valedictorian of her class, but is unsure of what she wants to do when she graduates.  Aunt Peggy recommends attending a S.H.I.E.L.D recruitment fair targeted towards qualified women of color that is being led by one of her friends, a man by the name of Nicolas Fury, which leads to Sharon joining S.H.I.E.L.D.

Sharon Carter becoming friends with Mack and being introduced to Daisy as she finishes her training, and the three becoming workplace friends and bonding over the struggles of being POCs in S.H.I.E.L.D before Director Fury (who has since taken Sharon under his wing) presents Sharon with the opportunity to work on a classified mission: working undercover as the neighbor of none other than Steve Rogers. 

Sharon seeing Steve Rogers for the first time and immediately thinking of that meme a friend once tweeted that said “Yeah, you cute, but are you down with the revolution?”

Sharon trying to figure out if Steve is as just and as good of a man as Director Fury and Aunt Peggy have said he is while simultaneously watching out for him.  Sharon realizing maybe he’s not so bad when one day she catches Steve angrily telling off a racist neighbor who has been harassing a black couple that recently moved into their building.

submitted by  mcwhyualwayslyin

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I love this!

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Can we cast Nicole Beharie??? I mean, y'all know I worship Nicole Beharie, someone please make me a race bent picspasm of Nicole Beharie as my fave Sharon Carter. If you do I will cry.