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I am starting to think all the white-passing rep is a psyop. Colourism in media goes crazy bc me and all the mixed people I know are visibly Black. To the point that once a white person was shocked that I have a white parent. That's what you get when Zendaya and Amanda Stenberg are Hollywood's Black rep lmao. I swear people now believe monoracial Black people look mixed and mixed Black people look white.

@Lex i’ve had that same experience where people have been shocked i have a white parent, i get u. so i’m tryna picture how light she is to where these kids have never put two and two together. especially considering there are other black kids in her school. the lightest biracial i can think of (and granted it’s recency bias) to picture as the main character is chase infiniti but even then you can tell she’s black. or erin kellyman; the kids could think she’s not black bc she’s a ginger.. but she still looks black. though, from the way the white characters are written, they are not the brightest bulbs in the box so i guess it’s not a surprise they didn’t realize she was black until it rained. i’m thinking the author wrote it as like they’re so racist they don’t realize black people can look different types of ways? idk we’ll see the direction the book goes

hunter wrote: "@Lex i’ve had that same experience where people have been shocked i have a white parent, i get u. so i’m tryna picture how light she is to where these kids have never put two and two together. espe..."

I have seen a couple of mixed people who don't look Black; they look Arab/white. Loose curls and a narrow nose do a lot for ambiguity icl. The author is very much not white-passing and neither have any of the authors I've read that have written white-passing characters. Genuinely wondering if it's a complex where they feel the need to write the 'perfect' biracial.