Live Action Avatar: The Last Airbender cast a white person to play Sokka.

The live action ATLA was priding itself on casting actual Asian and Indigenous actors to play Asian and Indigenous characters, but it’s recently come to light that Ian Ousley, the actor they cast to play Sokka, claims to be Cherokee. And yet he is not an enrolled member of any of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes.

@7genvoices on twitter even went through the trouble of contacting each of the three tribes asking for his enrollment status.

He is, instead, an “enrolled member” of the Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky. A FAKE tribe that has, for at least the last 10 years, been a detriment to the reputation and livelihood of actual Cherokee Nation folks. From going to their website, it’s very clear that they are fake. While the 3 federally recognized tribes have extensive vetting processes to amke sure  fakers cannot be citizens of our sovereign nation, the “Southern Cherokee Nation of Kentucky” requires an oral testament, or proof of Native American DNA, which NO FEDERALLY RECOGNIZED TRIBES ACCEPT.

Additionally, Ian Ousley seems to be RELATED to one of the leaders of this “tribe”.

There are a NUMBER of fake tribes that can be found here (and there are even more small ones that are not listed):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unrecognized_tribes_in_the_United_States

This roll could’ve, should’ve, and maybe still can go to an actual indigenous actor. Frankly, I felt weird hearing that he was “Cherokee” and being cast to play a character who is clearly designed to be Inuit or other more northern indigenous culture, but this really is the nail in the coffin.

What can we do about it?

You can retweet this and make sure to tag @ianlukeousley and Netflix!

You can sign this petition on change.org!

You can reblog this and bring it to the attention of others.

Thank you for reblogging this and spreading the word. It means a lot.

I made a video essay!

This is about the Hetalia fandom. The good, the bad, and the cringey.

Please enjoy!

Hello everyone!

Sorry the title is so clickbait-y, you know how youtube is.

I've been making video essays the last few months and this is my latest one! Setups and Payoffs are EVERYWHERE in the bttf movies AND in undertale, I just thought there would be a great opportunity for one more.

Thanks for watching!❤

spread this as much as you can.

what’s the pink they put in pink lemonade that makes it so poppin

that’s pussy babe!

Death of the author feels like such a white take tbh

“it doesn’t matter that this author was blatantly and violently racist and homophobic because the author is dead uwu”

Honestly, death of the author is a concept that is used incorrectly quite a bit. It’s meant to mean “It doesn’t matter if the author had [x] intentions because the text itself and the reader’s interpretation of it matter more than what the author intends.”

So, if an author is not intending to be racist or homophobic, death of the author means their work can still be racist and homophobic if that is what the text portrays to the readers. Whether the author meant it or not.

The intent of the author, no matter how benign, does not change what is on the page. And if the page is full of bias and prejudice, then it’s biased and prejudiced.

listening to a good song but it was in a shrek film so the entire time ur like

White people: if you want to help long term: get used to being told your opinion is wrong, irrelevant, or unwanted. Tell your friends to get used to it. Work on getting used to it and do this work with other white people. Because white supremacy has all of y’all very used  to being right and being an inherently valued voice and if we’re going to fight white supremacy you’re going to have to be comfortable surrendering that expectation and also white people will need to learn how to handle being rejected or disagreed with. It’s an extension of racism and racial trauma for black people to try and educate or speak up about our issues only to expose ourselves to your white fragility which  makes you defensive– this defensiveness can look like shutting down, silencing us, painting all corrections or disagreements as ‘fighs’ (extending the idea that black people are aggressive) etc.

White resilience is the opposite of white fragility and black people are VERY good at resilience, unfortunately. Listen to us we know how to combat this.

I have been on this site firmly yelling about social justice for years and haven’t received quite so many upset asks for at least 3 or so until I made this post. Multiple white people have messaged me or replied saying that it’s invalid, ‘racist’ or simply unfair to suggest that white people by virtue of being white may share a common problem. Y'all really do not want to understand that racism is systemic (sidenote, this is why NOTHING I say about you as a group qualifies as racism) and that you are ALL part of the system. It is not possible to fight racism but not address how you perpetuate white supremacy. White people: ask yourself why you are so upset by the idea that your whiteness is under critique. Ask yourself why you feel so comfortable telling the victims of racism how they should (and should not) fight racism. Funny that it makes you uncomfortable to think that perhaps your skin color may, in some cases, render your viewpoint…less than relevant. 

Ask yourself why you are flinching and knee jerking at the idea that you may have to give up the privilege of having your voice ALWAYS being accepted and centered. Ask yourself why you think it’s unfair and upsetting that white people’s voices are going to need to be lessened if there is to be real equality. If you think this suggestion to learn to be open to and to accept being wrong, being told you need to listen and not speak, in order to balance the supremacy of white voices and white opinions; if you think this is too ‘rude’ or ‘racist’ or whatever, I want you to understand that that’s white supremacy talking. This is white fragility talking– the slightest suggestion that you may need to examine and surrender social privileges unevenly heaped in your favor has you automatically shutting down and silencing me. So this is me, telling you again: you are wrong more often than you know. And it’s time to accept that if you want to learn and grow. White people: learn to accept being wrong. Learn to accept being questioned and doubted– and learn to question and doubt yourself; ask if you’re thinking critically or just repeating racist shit you’ve heard all your goddamn lives.

*ahem* THIS-

is a BUCKET.

There’s more!

NO

look above

Unmute !

quarantine’s really hitting people hard huh

why are all pride flags just stripes make that shit like Wales

slap a fuckin dragon on there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Everybody likes to travel

You aren't a bottom you're 14

Seriously though, to any 13/14 year olds, you're a child. You might still be in middle school. Please don't worry about what position you like in sex. Worry about passing your tests

In the same token though, you are not wrong or bad or dirty or gross for wondering about these things. But please be extremely careful exploring these topics. In the same way you have to be critical of the sources you might cite when writing a paper for school, be critical of the sources where you’re finding out about sex and sexuality. There’s nothing wrong with being curious. But there’s a lot of people confidently spouting inaccurate and dangerous information.

I would have aced biology if the teachers all taught the course like the narrator

It’s like a rainbow…of ugly.

Crying

*Calmly* “Here, the angler fish compares its camouflaging skills to that of a flounder, also a master–”

*Not so calmly* “HOLY CRAP, did you– what the FU–?!?!”

Here is a full playlist of all 25 “True Facts about x” videos Ze Frank has ever made. They’re all just as fantastic as this one. You’re welcome.

hitting that reblog button again because y’all NEED TO SEE THEEEEESE heheheheheh