[ SECRET POST #4829 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4829 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Dorothy Martin]



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[Lego Masters, Sam and Jessica]


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[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 08 secrets from Secret Submission Post #691.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah this is... very, very American. It's that weird American thing where someone can be paler than my pasty English self, but still be 'Black'. It's weird. Please don't try to export it like you do everything else.

+1000000

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, this is exactly right. I'm cringing at all the comments agreeing, like what the fuck guys.

Re: +1000000

[(Anonymous)]

American caste markers get really weird sometimes.

[(Anonymous)]

There are, however, indeed black people with lighter skin than white people. Like it or not, these terms refer to ethnic groups, not literal color - and this is true in the UK and beyond as well. Decidedly NOT an "American" thing

No comment on OP's secret though beyond wtf.

[(Anonymous)]

Outside of the US, people are usually referred to by their actual ethnic or national group - Berber, Tutsu, Hausa, Fula, San - not just as 'black'.
African-Americans forming their own distinct cultural identity off a history of being violently separated from that of their ancestors is a fine and wonderful thing; pretending that there is some sort of global black culture, some fundamental bond between all the 1.2 billion people of Africa that comes down to 'blackness'? That's not.

[(Anonymous)]

This was the point I felt Black Panther was trying to make, which seemed to utterly go over the heads of Americans.

[(Anonymous)]

... I mean, you're just wrong if you think there's no "black people" outside of the US. I lived in London for years. Yes, yes there is. Frankly, you sound white.

[(Anonymous)]

I’m American and so white I look like something that lives under rocks, and I was gonna say, I can totally see parts of the UK having high numbers of African immigrants from various countries, who identify as immigrants from wherever. But just because the British empire outlawed slavery before the US doesn’t mean there aren’t black people in the UK now who are descended from slaves and have no fucking clue where their ancestors were from, right? Or am I missing something?

[(Anonymous)]

The US might as well not even have left the UK, they're basically still the same country at this point.