Blackfishing

[Kit]

Commonly perpetrated by females of European descent (white) which involves artificial tanning ([spray tanning] and tanning booths) and using makeup to manipulate facial features in order to appear to have some type of Black African ancestry.
The general point of [blackfishing] is for a female of European descent to appear of African, Arab, or Hispanic ancestry.
Some consider it to be equivalent to modern day “[black face]” because it capitalizes off the looks of historically oppressed groups of people by people who come from more privileged backgrounds.

[Ernesto]

When white people tan their skin to look dark, it is the opposite of [whitefishing] but not accepted in the same manner because popularizing [blackfishing] makes white Europeans look inferior, instead they must Orwellianise the practice by calling it cultural appropriation. Notice how bleaching black skin is seen as wanting to be white and about feeling inferior among the [white skin], it is about telling the world that if you bleach your skin, it means you think that white skin is more beautiful. But that cant be same for tanning your skin to look black because white people do not want the standard of beauty to change to black given that they have made it the standard of beauty to white by loading us on the media about how a bunch of black people are bleaching their skin to appear white.

[Jessica]

When youre filling out an online application and you [put that] you are a black lesbian with [big tits], when really you are a [husky], white guy from the mid-west with a below average sized penis.

[Jason Yan]

[BlackFishing] is when someone who is not of [Black culture], tries to tan themselves, paint themselves, take [melanin] pills or injections or basically finds any resource to bring a [black skin] tone upon themselves. This is something that’s majority of the time, done by European Woman and Man who are insecure about themselves, or sees the beauty of Black people and wants it. But doesn’t admit the beauty Black people have and tries to manipulate Black culture into thinking their ugly like society has done to Black people years ago. They also culture appropriate mimicking everything that is apart of Black culture even the hairstyles and textures. And by the way before you say it, some Black people do have naturally straight hair and hair that is naturally blonde,red, ginger whatever you may call it. Therefore wearing [weaves] and etc is not culture appropriating [White culture]. Also knowing how Black woman are shamed for our natural hair, even a law had to get passed in California that discrimination upon Black woman’s hair is no longer going to be tolerated. It shows why some happen to wear weaves, but other reasons include protective styles that are meant to protect Black woman hair. Not White man, Latina woman and etc hair. That is only breaking your hair, Everyone wants to be within Black culture but not deal with the real issues upon being Black. Also guys, wearing durags. Which was meant for Black kinky texture hair.