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Alright monster high tag I’m going to explain you about racial coding because some of you still can’t understand how a cartoon character can be a monster and have a “human race” to go along with it.

So first off we do not live in a bubble. Nothing created exists in a bubble. It is all influenced by the surrounding culture. Black children are going to look at Honey and say “hey, she has hair like mine” and relate to that. Mexican children will look at Skelita and recognize the sugar skull and be drawn to her. Things do not exists in a bubble.

Now for racial coding. Racial coding is when you take a non-human character and code them as a specific type of race, or ethnicity. Now, sometimes racial coding can be racist. Examples:

All these characters are very obviously supposed to represent a certain race even thought they re non-human. The problem is they are represented racistly.

Now on for some good examples!

Luigi is a car, we all know he is Italian.

Flow is a car, we can still tell she’s black.

Eduardo is a imaginary friend, we still know he’s latin@

Wilt is an imaginary friend, we can still tell he’s black

Jinafire is a dragon, we all know she’s Chinese

Marisol is a Maricoxi, she is still obviously South American & Latin@ (tbh she reads as Peruvian specifically to me)

Hello Kitty is a cat, because she is created in Japan and is often displayed as participating in Japanese culture we know she’s Japanese.

So even though Honey Swamp is a monster.

She still reads.

as black.

And if you can’t see that you are a racist.

Black folk get shit for their natural hair all the time. When you, as any race other than black, straighten Honey’s hair you are part of the problem and are racist.

I hope everyone learned a thing 🙂

P.S. I will not be responding to racist trying to defend themselves. 

Wilt is black?

Yes he is! they’re not even subtle about it in the show, but let me give a few examples from least important to most important. 

Wilt’s voice actor is Phil LaMarr

The kid (pictured: man) who created wilt is Jordan Michael’s… an obvious Michael Jordan parody. 

He was created in “The Hood” and this was his surroundings.

Most of this can be found in the wiki for Good Wilt Hunting.  but the strongest piece of evidence for Wilt being black doesn’t come from that episode but it is directly related to is how he sees himself. 

and that is the prop arm he wears over his stump to prank little kids in the Halloween episode.

Black skinned props and prosthetics aren’t exactly easy to find. (there’s a joke about this in the movie Bad Santa where the black elf character has to wear elf ears that are white skinned because they don’t make black elf ear props or if they do they are extremely hard to come by.) 

which means Wilt had to activity search that prop out or make it himself because that is how he seems himself. His creator was black ,his neighborhood was black so even though he isn’t human. he feels black. 

So if he was human, he would be a black human.

Holy crap this post is so long I’m sorry I couldn’t reblog this as a shorter link but this is super informative and SUPER IMPORTANT!

Hello Kitty is actually British. Source: I just watched a Netflix show where they interviewed people involved with Sanrio, and that has apparently always been the case. I can’t remember the reasoning behind that decision, but there ya go.

(It’s “The Toys that Made Us” in case anyone wants to go verify for themselves.)

The rest stand, though.