You see this? Many of you are following this person who drew a black version of Pugsley Addams with a noose around his neck. This was a brainless, highly insensitive action, and the artist that did it? Didn’t apologise for the noose, only for using the BlackTober hashtag +

Despite not being black. They acted as if it was a little mess up, took the original post down, then reposted it without ever considering how fucked up it is to draw a black person with a noose around their neck. And now this artist is trying to “take a step back.” well NO. +

NO you will not get to step back, you do not get to leave a triggering mess behind for black people to deal with yet again. People like this take away all the attention from black artists using the tag and inadvertently make it all about them +

And leave yet another open wound on every black person who had to see that. It was shocking to me once I realised what I was seeing. I hope that you can understand what I’m saying and chose not to support this person anymore, not only for their actions but for their failure to +

Properly address their mistake or see the bigger picture. Non-black incompetence is spending black emotional capacity. Just leave blacktober the fuck alone if you’re not black, and think twice about the way you portray different groups according to their histories.