Malay/Arab/Muslim

You know-

We don’t just hate things like whitewashing, yellowface, redface, blackface, brownface, etc because they depict and promote horrible stereotypical representations of us and the way you think we look,

We don’t just hate them because they are the remnants of horrifically racist practices that were legalized and condoned,

We don’t just hate them because they are systematic ways of purposefully excluding us from being represented in the media,

We don’t just hate them because people STILL defend their use on grounds of ‘authenticity,’ whatever that means,

We don’t just hate them because people STILL think we look like that,

We don’t just hate them because they mean that we STILL live in a White world, where we’re all the deviations from the norm, the weird ones,

We don’t just hate them because their mere existence means that you will never see us for who we are but only for the commodified version of what you think we are,

We hate them because they promote the idea that no matter how high we rise, no matter how good we are at what we do and how well we represent ourselves, there will always be a white person who can do anything we can do better than we can- there will always be a white person that can depict us better than we can depict ourselves.

We hate them because when we do get in, when we finally get to show ourselves to the world, who we are is horrifically warped and neatly packed into a simplified, stereotyped version of us.

We hate them because they continue to exist and continue to be promoted and supported by the media and legions of racism apologists.

THAT’S WHY WE HATE THESE THINGS. 

WE DON’T HATE THEM JUST BECAUSE OF THEIR PAST,

WE HATE THEM BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY MEAN IN THE PRESENT-

THAT WE’RE STILL, DESPITE WHAT PEOPLE THINK, NOT PAST RACISM,

THAT WE’RE STILL BEING UNFAIRLY TREATED AND REPRESENTED,

THAT WE STILL LIVE IN A WHITE WORLD IN WHICH WE ARE STILL INCAPABLE OF REPRESENTING OURSELVES

AND THAT ALL OF THIS

IS 

STILL

GOING

ON

AND 

IS

STILL

BEING

ENDORSED

BY

THE 

MEDIA.

Don’t apologize for things like whitewashing, yellowface, redface, blackface and brownface. 

HELP END THEM.