Thursday, January 16, 2014

Duuh of course only white cartoons can be smart....

As a child I use to love Cartoonetwork it was my favorite channel now I’m really iffy on the channel watched 90 minutes of Cartoonetwork and I want those 90 minutes back. I ended up watching three episodes of Steven Universe (back to back to back mainly because cartoonetwork doesn’t have real shows they play the same shows over and over again until you want to scream) and at first I was really lost but then I got what was going on but I ended up comprehending. The characters were very interesting actually it’s about a little chubby Spanish looking boy, who isn’t exactly the brightest kid in the world. And he is half Gem half human so he has these powers but he can’t really control them. His mom died because she gave birth to him and she was Gem and I guess she wasn’t supposed to have a human boo and give birth I’m not really clear on that issue. But he has three Gem guardians. There’s Garnet, Pearl, and Amethyst they are all Steven’s guardians. I don’t even know why but Garnet is black, Pearl is white and Amethyst is I don’t even know what race she is because she’s purple…Everyone else had a race but her. There aren’t many black cartoons so I was really excited to see what she would bring to the plate. And she was literally a black Ferb from Phineas and Ferb she didn’t speak and when she did she spoke in a British accent and said something really smart or useful in the situation. I mean she talked more than Ferb but it was like the same thing anyway. She was very curvaceous and had a big afro that’s why I feel most people identified her as black because for all I know she could have been Indian or Native American she was the brawns of the group also using brute force on most things. There was Pearl and not being racist but she seemed like a stereotypical white housewife. But without a husband she was constantly pouncing on Steven wondering where he was what he was doing worrying about his safety and babying him. She was always trying to figure out what was wrong and how she could fix it. She overthought almost every situation they were in. Then there was Amethyst she was very goofy didn’t use her brain much and just wanted to have fun. I had to say I was highly disappointed with the show mainly because after getting excited and seeing the black girl I had high expectations but I felt she wasn’t really significant even though she was a main character. Also all the main character except Pearl seemed to be not so smart so that kind of was a bust. It made me feel like so what your telling me is that only white people can be smart in this show. In the next episode I met another character and I couldn’t identify if she was black, Indian, or Native American it was kind of frustrating but I assumed she wasn’t black because she had no afro like Garnet but I’m not sure. She seemed kind of smart she was reading a book which was the first time I saw a book in the hour that I had watched the show and even she wasn’t the smartest cookie in the jar either.

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