Black man here…..Here’s a play by play of what i said out loud reading this! “surely not” “not this” “oh absolutely not” “well maybe it’ll be addressed….” “JAXX….why?” “The freedmen have no faces” “oh no, are we hand waving and whitewashing away Chattel slavery?!” “Surely nooooooot” “oh god, no,why?” “Not a supposedly BLACK slave in the late 19th century having a silk pressed bust down” “Oh no they gave him euro-centric features……” “The horror!” “The AUDACIOUSNESS!” “THE IGNORANC!E”
Side note: It’s so funny to have happened upon this when there is currently a Broadway show called “Midnight” written and starring Uncle Tomdrick I mean Todrick Hall with eerily similar slave-master/white-savior dynamics. WHO IS THIS FOOOOOR?
And to those saying it’s not a big deal whilst reading media centering homosexual/queer content…do better or just flat out say you don't care about racism. If in 2026 you are a person in a modernized country especially if you are from the Americas and don’t understand peoples issue with this…..you’ve chosen to be willfully ignorant and it’s people like you that keep systems broken and historic wounds of injustice feasting.
Black man here…..Here’s a play by play of what i said out loud reading this!
“surely not”
“not this”
“oh absolutely not”
“well maybe it’ll be addressed….”
“JAXX….why?”
“The freedmen have no faces”
“oh no, are we hand waving and whitewashing away Chattel slavery?!”
“Surely nooooooot”
“oh god, no,why?”
“Not a supposedly BLACK slave in the late 19th century having a silk pressed bust down”
“Oh no they gave him euro-centric features……”
“The horror!”
“The AUDACIOUSNESS!”
“THE IGNORANC!E”
Side note: It’s so funny to have happened upon this when there is currently a Broadway show called “Midnight” written and starring Uncle Tomdrick I mean Todrick Hall with eerily similar slave-master/white-savior dynamics. WHO IS THIS FOOOOOR?
And to those saying it’s not a big deal whilst reading media centering homosexual/queer content…do better or just flat out say you don't care about racism. If in 2026 you are a person in a modernized country especially if you are from the Americas and don’t understand peoples issue with this…..you’ve chosen to be willfully ignorant and it’s people like you that keep systems broken and historic wounds of injustice feasting.