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Everything went damn fine with my medical appointment, it's something minor, that means: no that big! (I will talk about the details later because I know you are all dying to know about them.)

Meanwhile, I wanted to link this all week, thanks god, shewhohashope posting at DBW made me remember.

In Brightest Day, In Blackest Night. On DC comics, racism, and Somali pirates.

this whole thing feels like a slap in the face. On a less personal level, this is indeed regressive storytelling. A black hero gets disembodied and has to share the body of his white predecessor, a black villain from back when it was acceptable for every non-white character have a reference to their ethnicity in their title gets brought back in a book where two white heroes take down a group of men who not only bring to mind the worst stereotypes and phobias about black men in the collective unconscious, but are based on real black men who have been demonised and misrepresented in Western media, all in the series which is already associated with White Power Rings.

White supremacy is not just for white nationalists, it's so embedded in our culture that people can't imagine seeing it unless one was looking for it.