Did Ya'll Notice Something?

[amarie24]

Note: I been wanting to say this for a while, now. And yes, I am hopelessly laughing.

Under my Blackout Day picture this time...I done stopped saying, "Hey, if you have any selfies, please share them in the comments!"

And y'know why? 'Cause almost ain't nobody ever share their selfies for Blackout Day in my comments.

And y'know why that is? Because so, so many of ya'll are white.

Whitey McWhite. Midwest White. Drink-Milk-Everyday-White. Cheese-Sandwich-White.

Ya'll can either get a tan in the sun or you outright burn in the sun. Hell, ya'll'd probably get sunburn from just the phone's camera flash if you tried to participate in Blackout Day.

So, so, so, so many of my blogging friends are white. Be it Dreamwdith, Ana Mardoll's Ramblings, or Shakesville...ya'll are all so white. I love and appreciate every last one of ya'll, but Jesus Christ. I've had this blog since 2011 and been hanging out at Ana Mardoll's since about 2008, but...how did it ever get to this point? My goodness.

I have a party over on Tumblr on Blackout Days, but I ain't got next to nobody over here to do Blackout Day with. My god.

Ain't nobody to do Blackout Day selfies with me over here. Ya'll are all so white.

-lolsob-

-still, truly laughing helplessly-

Comments

[silveradept]

Yeah, sorry. Too white to participate. Will-get-toasted-if-the-sun-looks-at-me-wrong too white.

[amarie24]

See?! I knew some of ya'll get toasted in the sun!! I knew it!!! -headdesk-

[alexseanchai]

Burnt crispy in too much sunlight, yes.

[amarie24]

Yet another one!!!

[jennaria]

:raises hand apologetically as another doesn't-even-tan-properly white chick:

[amarie24]

Number three and counting!!!

[azurelunatic]

Likewise.

[amarie24]

You are henceforth number four. I bet you burn in the sun, too!!

Jesus Christ.

(Also, is that icon a picture of you?! If so, chu iz so beautiful!! Goodness gracious, you look like an angel!!!)

[azurelunatic]

Born and raised in Alaska, so I get extra-crispy in the sun. In Arizona I had to go about with a great big hat and an umbrella.

(And that picture is of me! Thank you!! It's also more than *counts* 12 years old at this point. This is me now, smudged eyeliner and all: https://twitter.com/azurelunatic/status/807403971811807232 )

[amarie24]

Ooohh, Alaska, huh? I had no idea! I hear those snows are some of the most beautiful ever in the world, yes?

And then you went down to Arizona...where that dry, dry desert heat that gets into the 100s is. Good lord in heaven. Why, that reminds me of way, way back in high school, we had a transfer student from Alaska come down here to Georgia. So heat and humidity, poor thing! She said it was like she stepped into Hades!

(And you are so pretty!! You remind me of those Edwardian ladies from way, way back in the day!!!)

[azurelunatic]

It is such beautiful snow! The angle of the light makes everything pink and blue and gold for a whole bunch of the day. And when the conditions are right for big crystals, so sparkly.

Moving to Arizona was a bit of a climate shock. At least it was a dry heat (as they kept telling me)!

(And thank you! You are lovely as well, and it always brightens my day to see your selfies.)

[amarie24]

Oooohh, that is a beautiful snow, for sure! I do hope that I'm lucky enough to one day see it myself; you're so lucky to be from such a beautiful state! (...Although I'm so sorry that ya'll had Sarah freakin' Palin as governor for a while. Goodness gracious.)

And yeah, dry heat is a lot easier to deal with than humid heat, which is what we have over here in the east, haha!

(D'aaaaaaw, you're so very kind!!!)

[azurelunatic]

Sarah Palin was not a disaster of a governor until she got a national stage. Very quiet. Until someone dragged her out into the spotlight...

I have visited the East Coast a few times. I think my heat tolerance was better at that point. I think I would melt now!

[amarie24]

Yeah...that someone being John McCain and his team, bless his heart.

And d'aaw, that's okay! I'm sure I'd freeze up there in Alaska!! LOL!

[wingedbeast]

Yeah, I'm in a position where I can only support but not really take part. Support offered.

[amarie24]

Number five.

(And thanks so much for the support offer! I promise, though, that I'm actually laughing, Beast! LOL!)

[smurasaki]

Yup. *points at icon*

Like wingedbeast said, I'm afraid all I can do is support you.

[amarie24]

-hands you a number- Indeed, my friend. You are number six.

[indigodragon]

I'm mister white. xD The whitest skin of all my friends, thanks to being 1/4th Finnish, with all the rest being English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, and Northern Germanic. xD

I BURN and then maybe just maybe get a faint tan. Once the burns from hell go away that is. XD

Just call me a vampire. ;D I have the permanent shadows under my eyes, abhorrence of sunlight, sleeping during the day in my cavern-like bedroom, awake all night, burning in the sunlight, and perpetual thirst (for water not blood thankfully LOL!) to boot. XD Call me mister vampire. ;D I vant to suck jur blood (jk) :B

My boyfriend tans and doesn't really burn unless it's a really bad one. xD But he's not a black person, nor African American soooooo he can't really participate in #BlackOutDay either. O.o That's for black people and African Americans, rather than those who are Asian and Native American last I checked (he's half and half).

So we couldn't really participate over here unfortunately. XDD SORRY!

Your selfies are gorgeous though. :3 I wouldn't ever want to steal your thunder even if I was black. :3 I'd want you to shine in the spotlight. :D <3

[amarie24]

STEP RIGHT ON UP, NUMBER SEVEN!!!

See?! Ya'll see how white ya'll are?! How many of them ya'll are?!

[redsixwing]

Eight! \o/ *slinks under an umbrella*

The running joke in my family is, we burn under incandescent lights.

[amarie24]

Number eight, indeed!!!!

Ahhh...but what about fluorescent lights, huh? Ya'll do better under those?

[redsixwing]

I assume so. I don't seem to sunburn in the office. ;)

[amarie24]

The office then, is quite safe for you, my friend. Quite safe indeed. :D

[indigodragon]

There's so many of us. XD I'm fair surprised honestly. I thought there'd be more POC followers, especially black followers. xD

[amarie24]

I know, right?! I thought I'd have more followers of color, too! But look what happened! Where'd all you white folks even come from?! @__@

[pebblerocker]

Guilty as charged! I've just finished recovering from a severe, radioactive-red, glowing, throbbing sunburn caused by skipping the SPF 50+ on a day which turned out sunnier than expected after a rainy morning. I couldn't sleep properly for two nights because I had to lie with both arms on top of the covers and I can't feel comfy if my arm isn't under the pillow. I used a lot of aloe vera gel. Then I peeled horribly a week later. White people think I'm unusually white and I'm the least pasty in the family; the rest burn even worse than I do.

I am glad there's a good community for you over on Tumblr. Blogging places are just... yeah, pretty white.

[amarie24]

Testimony from NUMBER NINE!!! I wonder if anyone's going to step up and be number ten?!!

But OMFG, please, please, please, please be careful, friend!! My goodness, I've never had a sunburn myself, but those ain't nothing to play with!!! Thank goodness that you had some aloe vera gel on hand, though!

And, well...actually, there are more and more blogging spaces becoming much more diverse by the minute. I guess I just...drew the lucky straw and go surrounded by so many white folks for friends. -lolsob-

[pebblerocker]

I'm going to be so careful. Last year I managed not to get burnt all summer and I was so proud of myself. Then I go and do this *sigh*

My manager (who is Māori) told my young co-worker (also Māori) that he should be using sunscreen even though he's brown. Official messages from the health department, the Cancer Society, etc, always say the same. In reality, I don't think people use sunscreen if they don't usually burn. It must be easier to forget to put it on if there isn't terrible pain as a consequence. Little envious here that some people can go out in the sun!

[amarie24]

Oh, thank goodness you're more careful! And, yeah...I admit that I almost never use sunscreen (I did when I was younger) and I've never in my life had a sunburn. Yeah, it's...yeah, when you don't have the threat of terrible ass pain as a consequence, you just...go on out and let your melanin do its work, LOL!

But you're alright, my friend! :D