Eleanor and blackfishing: an informative thread

i would like to start off by saying that i am a black women so ALL of this is coming from my (a poc) point of view

ok so here we have eleanor’s NATURAL skin tone

vs. when she blackfishes

here’s a photo of eleanor and a black woman to give you a good idea as to what’s going on here

another example

In conclusion, eleanor is blackfishing, if you don’t know what blackfishing is it’s when someone makes drastic changes to their skin color, hairstyle, etc. to the point where they pass as a black person. This isn’t ok because black people are getting killed every +

single day because of our skin color (which we can’t take off) and then people like eleanor use our skin tone/color as an aesthetic and then just wash it all off at then end of the day and go back to living their privileged life, which is horrible because +

i can’t just take off my skin, it’s permanent and i’ve lived with it all my life. So if you think what eleanor’s doing is ok but then you shout “BLACK LIVES MATTER” you’re literally contradicting yourself. Also, yes, she’s been called out about this multiple times +

in the past and she just chooses to ignore what people say, which is extremely ignorant. Lastly, I do not respect eleanor because she has done MUCH more controversial things than this but there’s other threads explaining that.

educate yourself and spread awareness https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/