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Oh wow look how they made the black woman's in the "bad" panel have her naturally curly hair as a bad thing as opposed to the more "White" coded look she has in the first "good" panel.
It really fucks me off how white people just assume their way is normal and best and impose that on everyone else.
[rant incoming]
That commitment to the anglo ways even when it makes no sense is extremely evident in a place like the tropical north east of Australia, where instead of building to the conditions, they try to do everything the British way. British style houses that get dangerously hot in summer. Food that is hard to grow here (instead of taking advantage of the unique stuff that is found only here), Farming that requires tons of water be shipped to places in the fucking dessert because they insist on the same cattle from England/America instead of just farming the camels that do really well out there. Outdoor plastic products that last five seconds outside in the Aussie sun before they crumble. Stuff that isn't resistant to humidity and attracts black mould. British garden plants that literally can't grow here lmao why are you trying to grow raspberries and cottage flowers you insane crackers just plant a native grevillea or a tea tree instead they're beautiful and the wildlife loves them.
Basically what I'm saying is that I hate that additude of "There is only one good way to do things and that's the White British/American colonial way!" Stop trying to dominate the fucking land you weirdos it's not the 1800s we should know better now.
Not that the point you're making doesn't stand/isn't good, but this comic is from The Black Panther, which was the Black Panther Party's official newspaper. So it seems to be more of a commentary on the white reaction, which you described, rather than an attempt to portray the black liberation movement as something bad.
I see! Thanks for letting me know. They were spot on, it's pretty accurate. haha.
In addition to this being from The Black Panther (so this should probably be read something like a Kelly comic, ie, satirical of reactionary white media), I think all three characters are meant to be the same people, not just the cracker in the background. So I think it's also commenting on individuals becoming radicalised and therefore hated in addition to the movement.
Yup it's a good satire
It's funny that my Mexican dad calls it the same thing. Lol
I think that the worst of these ways is using niceness as a means to disqualify whatever you have to say.
It means that if you've been personally hurt by the majority and have a visceral reaction to something that they're justified in ignoring you if you don't say it with a smile.
Oh I hate that. "Well if you want people to listen to you you should behave and not get angry or fight back." Is so fucking vile imo. People have the right to be angry at terrible things and fight back against terrible things.
What's even worse is some cultures have internalized it that white = good without white people imposing it on them. I see all throughout Japanese culture with so much of the fashion trying it's hardest to be western and it sucks, it kills off what's unique and good about the world for the sake of being accepted into the amorphous blob of "whiteness".
This actually started when Japan was forced to open trade relations with Britain.
It's pretty wild how bootlicky Japan is to America, especially in the 80s and 90s. They even started doing the American thing of making all their heroes the colour of the American flag. Both Mario and Sonic use a red, white and blue colour pallet like Spider-Man or Superman.
Sonic was assembled like Poochie the Dog and his personality was modeled after Bill Clinton (no joke) so that tracks. Knowing way too much about old video games I can say for certain that Mario's look mostly came from making the most of a super limited color palette and green or blue would blend in with backgrounds.
I swear I have a memory from the 90s of Mario dressed like Uncle Sam
Probably from the art for Super Mario USA which was the Japanese version of the western version of Super Mario Bros 2. It was a Japanese only release but Nintendo would sometimes use that artwork for July 4th issues of Nintendo Power or for their post 9/11 article.
Edit: I'm wrong. It's not from there and I can't find the image. I know what you're talking about and can remember it too but I can't find it at all. There is an America suit in smash ultimate and I think it's from Odyssey but I could be wrong. Also found this:
And
mario has fumbs:(
Interesting lmao that AI is cursed
I noticed the hair immediately too
The hair thing is always so blatantly racist.
Also wearing bell bottoms, gotta throw some shade at the hippies too as this was peak Vietnam protesting time too.