katielittlekinrit:

pussy-footed-and-kittycornered:

The fact that Black Lightning isn’t nearly as popular as the rest of the CW’s DC shows despite being 3x better is proof y’all don’t care about rep when it’s not white. Literally a bullet proof lesbian as a main lead but you don’t care bc she’s black and an activist. If you are bitching about lack of rep in on CW and then sleep on BL you need to sit the fuck down and shut up.

EDIT: people who continue to reblog this with my edits explicitly saying to not reblog this are going to be blocked.

Here’s more truth: Black Lightning is too black for the CW audience. It’s not black in a fun way that’s accessible like black sitcoms that are like “See? We’re just like you!” and it’s not black in an Empire way that mostly explores stereotypes that white people are so easily entertained by.

Black Lightning is black in a real way that makes makes white people uncomfortable. Gang violence, police brutality, the government experimenting on people/putting drugs in poor black neighborhoods – this happened, this happens.

There’s no fun bubbly white best friend or nice white family anywhere to break up the blackness, or inject levity into the bleak reality of cities like Freeland and people just don’t wanna face it.

Yet, those same people will tell black people we’re exaggerating about racial issues, institutionalized racism, police brutality, neglect, and corruption or they’ll just feign ignorance.

At the end of the day it’s like every other superhero show on tv, it’s about superheroes trying to protect the city they live in. It’s better than the rest because it’s so much more grounded in reality.

And well, I think the white wlw fandom all over social media has proven several times over by now that they just don’t give a damn about queer black women as a whole.