kingcobrakai1972:

i’ve gotten a handful of troll anons recently, so i’m not sure how serious this ask is, (if it is i’m sorry), but i’ll post it and see i anyone wants to link to any metas on this.

there are POC in the bonkai fandom that could explain this better than me/ have explained it

Magic Negro: A black character who exist only to further white characters development. They seemingly have no other life or objective other than to serve this white character.

They might want to look up “Happy Slave” an “Mammy” as well.

• Happy Slave: Most notable by the movie Songs From the South one of Disney’s most offensive film which featured this trope. It’s self explanitory but it feature character in positions of forced servitude that not only seem like their happy about their position but are voluntarily in this position. While this applies to Bonnie, it’s most notable with Emily when they call her Katherine’s “Handmaiden”. Civil War Era Virginia, that’s no handmaiden. It also can apply to Beau the mute heretic who followed Lily with a devotion and obligation none of the other Heretics had.
• Mammy:

  amiable, loyal, maternal, non-threatening, obedient, and submissive. The mammy figure demonstrated deference to white authority. On occasion, the mammy was also depicted as a sassy woman. She was devoted to her owners/employers and her primary goal in life was to care for their needs. Some portrayals had the mammy have a family of her own. But her caregiving duties would always come first, leading to the mammy being portrayed as a neglectful parent or grandparents. an asexual figure, “devoid of any personal desires that might tempt her to sin”. This helped the mammy serve as both a confidant and a moral guide to her young charges, capable of keeping them in line. Her personal attributes include infinite patience, self-deprecating wit, an implicit understanding and acceptance of her own inferiority, and her devotion to whites. This is Bonnie to a T, with her “loyaly” and willingness to sacrifice her self for other’s with little to no care about her life. And her love life, she always been short changed in that department and we all know that ships are currency on TVD. For all intents and purposes she was asexual.

Here are some Links I reference often:

• The Problematic Tretment of People of Color on The Vampire Diaries
• The Vampire Diaries Racism and the Magic Negro
• Hollywood Racism, Julie Plec and The Vampire Diaries
• The Vampire Diaries’: What People of Colour Do When They Aren’t Snack Food 
• Julie Plec, Bonnie-Hate and the Shittiness of The Vampire Diaries
• The Death of Marginalized Characters
• People of Colour as Extras do not Equal Inclusion 
• POC of the Vampire Diaries: Bonnie Bennett 
• POC of the Vampire Diaries: Bonnie Bennett, Revisited 
• The Vampire Diaries: Too many Black Witches

• THE VAMPIRE DIARIES AND SOUTHERN HISTORY

• How The Vampire Diaries Wronged Bonnie Bennett

• And theres even a book/journal that’s spend a good chunk of it talking about Bonnie’s treatment called 

  The Cultural Politics of Color Blind Casting

If they’re actually serious about this I suggest they look into it on their own. I spent a good portion of time years ago and still do today researching it and it all started with a simple google search of vampire diaries racism. That led me to a lot of things on the subject most of which aren’t listed because I don’t have the time, but they aren’t that hard to find.