avictoriangirl:

pookaseraph:

turtletotem:

Yes, Raven, you HAD better hide because as insane as it seems now, you lived in a world where it barely made the news for a black man to be mutilated and set on fire for the crime of looking at a white woman. That’s a black man, a human being under the law with the right to vote and everything, whose race happens to be in the minority. Admittedly, you’re in England, not the Southern U.S., but all the same, what the heck do you think would happen to a scaly blue girl who can shapeshift? I figure it’s a toss-up between ‘burned at the stake as a demon’ or ‘squirreled away in a government lab, never again to see daylight through non-sedated eyes.’

Charles made a lot of mistakes, sweetheart, many of them with you. But hiding your true appearance from the public eye was not freaking one of them.

Thank you so fucking much. Like, yes, Charles can be a prat, but I’ve long said that XMFC - the movie - by avoiding racism actually makes it hard for the audience to understand (or easy for the audience to ignore) the fact that it’s 1962 and all that meant for race and race relations. Charles is not an asshole for thinking some hiding is going to need to happen.

His goal is implicitly conveyed as attempting to become a model minority protected by the government! This isn’t necessarily the wisest course of action, but it might help with the worst of the reactions when the shit inevitably hits the fan. I find it hard to believe that Charles doesn’t understand the nuance of his situation, and I see his behavior after discovering Shaw (or at least Emma, Azazel and Riptide) are mutants is to execute his ‘in case of mutant emergency break glass’ plan.

He occasionally treats Raven’s issues with insensitivity, but this is yet again another example of Jennifer Lawrence’s Raven being fine as a 17 year old Raven, but shit as a 27 year old Raven who should have some concept that these issues exist.

She can’t be ignorant of how looks get you perceived. It’s not like she runs around looking black, or not classically pretty.