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Blackwash 

When an established character is turned black for no reason other than to diversify the cast. It is the opposite of whitewashing, and is normally not ever complained about
Person 1: Why did they have to blackwash Domino in the new Deadpool movie?
Person 2: What, are you saying she can't be black? You're so racist for not giving black actresses a chance
Person 1: it's not about being racist, it's about being accurate, jackass
Blackwash by Moo024681012 September 16, 2017

Blackwashed 

to overwrite whites, and their history with blacks or other minorities and their history

see google veterans day google 2015
google just blackwashed veterans day with their 2015 doodle
Blackwashed by YT ofc January 15, 2016

blackwashing 

Blackwashing is a term used when a person deliberately changes a (usually) white character, or person, to be included in the black race, as, to (in most cases) show more representation of the black community.

It is NOT okay to commit to blackwashing for more representation or any other reason. Blackwashing is just as bad as whitewashing. You are changing a character's ethnicity for YOUR OWN liking. It is unfair and showing the person needs to be in your community to be good. Please leave peoples' skins alone; they are perfect the way they ARE.
POC person: "We have the right to be blackwashing, it shows more of us."

Another POC person: "I am POC but believe that is unfair. We should not change someone's skin colour for any case."
blackwashing by LyingTreasure June 1, 2022

Blackwash 

The form of making a originally white character black. It’s commonly used as “art”, and not seen for how incredibly racist it is.
“I hate how people are always blackwashing characters!”
“Blackwashing doest exist!”
“Then neither does whitewashing jackass”
“…”
Blackwash by Aaron Peckman November 5, 2021

BlackWashing 

The act of changing art that includes white, Asian, Hispanic, etc. Characters into Black or dark skinned, for the purpose of “representation”.
Twitter really is something, so much hate, especially to artists. A lot of “art fixers” really enjoy BlackWashing, it’s a lot more common than you’d think.
BlackWashing by CrimsonDragon March 29, 2022

Blackwashing 

Blackwashing is when a person changes a character's previous race to black. Blackwashing is just as bad as whitewashing, and it's a fact. The only acceptable reason is if you do that solely for fun. In terms of representation, it sucks ass because creating a black original character is not that hard and absolutely not problematic, unlike looking down at a specific race and deciding the character is better when it's black.
(for representation)
A: I fixed this art and now the character looks better.
B: Dude that's just straight up blackwashing.
A:"Blackwashing'' doesn't exist, you're just racist that you won't accept POC representation!
A: Besides, this character looks better as black.
B:And that's the problem, you just think a certain race is superior than others when really everyone should be equal. This ''representation'' doesn't help with anything but offend those who have the same race as the character's original design.

(for fun)
A: Hi check out my drawing of this character as a black person, i think they look neat.
B: Oh, looks cool but why did you change their race?
A: It's nothing really, i just thought of drawing this for fun.
B: Alright, besides that's a nice drawing!
A: Thank you!
Blackwashing by meb gem June 16, 2022
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