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Me at Esther Mikaelson being called the Original witch:

I think this was the point when I realized “wow, this show has really lazy stupid writing”.

Ikr, and this is season 3 when the writer was “good”. She couldn’t have even been called the Original Witch in the episode she’s introduced because the spell that makes her famous isn’t even her spell–it’s one she got from another witch who got it from her ancestors. I get that they wanted to give her a fancy title as the mother of the originals and creator of vampires, but maybe a name that’s accurate and doesn’t over estimate her.

I mean Qetsiyah, creator of the immortality spell (because Silas didn’t do shit but take credit for her work) and the other side, doesn’t even have a title like that and she’s miles ahead of Esther in power and a lot closer to being called the Original Witch (even though it’s still not true because witches are born not created).

Like I said in the tags she’s not the Original Witch, she’s just white.

EXACTLY!! 

How freaking stupid was that?! She’s the “Original Witch” and it wasn’t even her spell and she wasn’t the one who cast it! (there was another witch with her, right?)

Qetsiyah was awesome. She deserves that title.

I got a name for Esther – The 1000 year old White Witch who took credit for other, much more epic witches’ work. 

^^^ this.

And I always hated what her introduction pretty much told us as the audience. Again, what I said in the tags, she’s just the first white witch to be introduced. Up until that point all witches had been black, and all those witches were servants of some kind usual vampires. It was something noted and not appreciated in the slightest. Then the first witch with agency, the first witch not to be serving , but has people serving her is a 1000 white woman who’s most famous spell is not one she created but stole from a black witch who was serving her.

Up until her introduction the writers could have at least claimed ignorance, but that was just so blatantly racist that I’m actually surprised that that wasn’t what Plec got called out for but instead the Kennett controversy.

Yep. That’s it. Honestly, I’m shocked that the treatment of witches – up until that point and past that point – wasn’t the “…hold on, we need to address this/fix this” moment because, like you said, all the witches were black and were servants to the vampires (pretty poorly treated by them, too)… and it kept going.. and going.. the racism is blatant, writers. 

(your tags are always epic, btw)

And that’s the thing, they did improve the treatment of witches, but only the white witches, so they could think the did a job well done. I mean think about it, Esther, Liv, Davina, Jo, Kai, the Gemini coven, the heretics (all except for one who happened to be black and mute and even the Asian one to a degree), all had an amount of agency that no black witch has ever had, and way more than Bonnie ever got in her entire 8 seasons on the show. Seriously ignorance cannot account for this because if just how blatant it is.

You would think they would want to improve that but as situations like this and many like it prove they’re perfectly content with their racism and will go out of their way to stay as racist as possible.