#i literally love this post
My personal thoughts on Black x Readers as an African American
You know something that I constantly wonder about? How most (insert character here) x Black!Reader’s are usually dark smut fics.
Like I go to look for a fluffy fic and all I find is y/n getting railed in their sleep non-consensually! These stories always have a bittersweet twisted ending. Now if that’s your thing go off but NOT IN EVERY S I N G L E STORY! You don’t look up x black!reader smut non-con you just look up x black!reader and that’s all that’s there.
In my experience of searching AND I HAVE BEEN SEARCHING, most of the time the fic doesn’t even mention the reader being black or only gives like 1 description like “y/n’s luscious black curls” AND THAT’S IT!
Most of the time the tag x Black!reader feels more like just a tag to get reads rather than an actual attempt at creating more representation!
The thing that I think gets under my skin the most is the fact that most of the stories are FULL of stereotypes about African Americans! The tags almost always have the Daddy kink, choking kink, spit kink, Drug use, toxic relationships, abuse of some sort! Or there are like 40 tags of black Y/n getting SPECIFICALLY violentlyfucked!
OR the story points out how y/n “picked out her huge afro and put on her large hoop earrings” or “y/n put on their Air Jordans and went to see their baby daddy for the child support that he owes” (I’M SERIOUS)!
I just wish that there was more appropriate representation in the x reader community rather than the few good stories that we are given. BECAUSE TRUST ME there are some really good cute ones that have fluff or romantic smut or getting railed BUT that’s not the WHOLE DAMN STORY (and even if it is it’s done in a respectful manner!)but there are so few.
And I can already here the argument “WELL, WHY DON’T YOU CREATE SOME REPRESENTATION YoURSeLf!” I will. Not much will change if I only complain about it and I am aware of that BUT it is not my responsibility to create every peice of representation that appropriately represents my community.
One peice of positive representation versus 100 peices of “representation” can only change but so much.
But then again that’s why I’m writing this post if I want to see change the first thing I have to do is at least bring attention to what I see as the issue.
But what are your thoughts on the issue?
yuh i popped off in tags so read those
