Mark Knight could’ve easily drawn Serena Williams as a toddler, as a baby throwing a tantrum, but he went the “hulking brute” route, as if Serena is so much larger than all of her competitors/“victims.”
“I don’t know how you draw an African-American person by not making them look like an African-American person.” - CBS News
Yet he drew the “victim” – who is half Black/half Japanese – as a faceless blonde white woman. Just say “angry Black women are animals” and go.
Angry Black people are always larger than life to white people. Every cop shooting of an unarmed Black man talks about how huge the victim was, how they had superhuman strength running through a hail of bullets like Michael Brown. 12-year-old Tamir Rice was a grown man to the cops who shot him.
Maria Sharapova’s autobiography repeatedly tried to paint her as a victim to Serena’s ENORMOUSLY SCARY BODY.
In reality, this is what Serena Williams looks like next to Naomi Osaka.
Yes, she’s bigger and stronger…the way a Camry is bigger than a Geo Metro, not the way a semi-truck is bigger than a 2-door coupe.
“The black woman of the white imagination is not the black woman of reality. Over and over folks have jumped in my timeline telling this cartoon was justified because Serena is SO MUCH bigger, huge, gargantuan. She is not. It’s your bigotry that’s gigantic, not her.” – Nikole Hannah Jones
He literally said “how do you draw an African American person without making them look like an African American person”
He actually thinks that’s how we look. When people are literally proclaiming their racism from the mountain top and at the same time telling us they’re not racist and their actions were not racist..
It’s the ultimate gaslight.
“I don’t know how you draw an African-American person by not making them look like an African-American person.” - CBS News
As a white male cartoonist…. I am sickened and ashamed by this whole… everything.
My entry for the #SidekicksCollab being curated by CalMoray on Twitter !
{ Treasure Planet is a deeply meaningful and important movie to me, and B.E.N. still holds up as one of my fave characters in it, I felt like animating him would better capture his frantic energy }
Mark Knight could’ve easily drawn Serena Williams as a toddler, as a baby throwing a tantrum, but he went the “hulking brute” route, as if Serena is so much larger than all of her competitors/“victims.”
“I don’t know how you draw an African-American person by not making them look like an African-American person.” - CBS News
Yet he drew the “victim” – who is half Black/half Japanese – as a faceless blonde white woman. Just say “angry Black women are animals” and go.
Angry Black people are always larger than life to white people. Every cop shooting of an unarmed Black man talks about how huge the victim was, how they had superhuman strength running through a hail of bullets like Michael Brown. 12-year-old Tamir Rice was a grown man to the cops who shot him.
Maria Sharapova’s autobiography repeatedly tried to paint her as a victim to Serena’s ENORMOUSLY SCARY BODY.
In reality, this is what Serena Williams looks like next to Naomi Osaka.
Yes, she’s bigger and stronger…the way a Camry is bigger than a Geo Metro, not the way a semi-truck is bigger than a 2-door coupe.
“The black woman of the white imagination is not the black woman of reality. Over and over folks have jumped in my timeline telling this cartoon was justified because Serena is SO MUCH bigger, huge, gargantuan. She is not. It’s your bigotry that’s gigantic, not her.” – Nikole Hannah Jones
He literally said “how do you draw an African American person without making them look like an African American person”
He actually thinks that’s how we look. When people are literally proclaiming their racism from the mountain top and at the same time telling us they’re not racist and their actions were not racist..
It’s the ultimate gaslight.
“I don’t know how you draw an African-American person by not making them look like an African-American person.” - CBS News
As a white male cartoonist…. I am sickened and ashamed by this whole… everything.
Context: playing Curse of Strahd. Players are in a town that the vampire couldn’t get into and pissed him off, and so clouds full of lighting with his face appeared over them and was hitting the general area with lighting.
Fighter: literally has 5 hp left “Ha! That’s right! Why don’t you come down here and fight like a man?!”
Monk: has 6 hp and no Ki left “oh no.”
Paladin: not wearing armor, has 9 hp “you didn’t.”
Fighter: “what?”
DM: “… so another flash of light hits the ground, and Strahd appears before you. He thanks you for the invitation.”
