Someone wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets 2014-05-08 12:10 am (UTC)

Well, I can try. It's hard to explain funny.

In the first strip, it's funny that the boy is mocking the girl, because she's like OH LIFE IS SO HARD BECAUSE I'M BIRACIAL and he's like YEAH FUCK THAT LIFE IS SO HARD I'M BLACK.

In the second strip, it's just kind of a continuation of the first strip because she's obviously hung up on the fact that she's 1/2 black and she's had the conversation with the boy sooooooo many times that he's like DON'T YOU WANT TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT YOUR SPECIAL BLACKNESS?!

Sure, it's not sensitive, but a lot of funny things aren't. And I don't get OP's point that the depiction is "misguided" - maybe that's not how OP would react if they were biracial, but everybody's different.

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