Ruined this completely.
Having an African American man rap against his Asian challenger with lyrics like, "go back to your country" when exactly zero Africans are native to the Americas is fucking wild and racist as fuck.
Like, how dare you bring Tupac Shakur into this, you assholes. And worse, have him summoned because of an ASIAN wanna-be rapper? Didn't even have the decency to make her be adopted by a Black family or be half-Black or anything. Wtf.
What is wrong with these writers?!???
The black characters are made to be very violent and aggressive. So tired of that fucking narrative of Black or brown people being uncivilized and savage compared to the pale ass Asians and whites.
In fact, this new character wore a wig of fake 'locs, deliberately Black fishing. The utter disrespect of that act. Wow.
Fuck. Off.
No wonder whites make fun of us Asians.
These writers don't know shit about what Africans in the Americas have lived through. What powers their music, culture, and how all of that generational trauma is expressed through their arts.
How fucking dare they do this. This manhwa is about music but they won't even admit that K-pop is just Black culture stripped of Black people. It's not even
subtle.
I was already unimpressed with how the story glossed over Queen's queerness but this was the final nail.
I don't see a single story by ANY Asian (from Asia) authors telling white people to go back to their countries. Oh, I'm sure they exist, but I haven't come across it. And, frankly, whites in the US 100% deserve to be told that.
Disappointing and gross. Fuck this nonsense.