Steven Universe

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Steven Universe PSA Scene

Steven Universe is an American cartoon series created by Rebecca Sugar for Cartoon Network. It is Cartoon Network's first animated series to be created solely by a woman.[1]

Synopsis

Steven Universe is set in the fictional town of Beach City, Delmarva, where the Crystal Gems live in an antiquated beachside sanctuary and shield humankind from beasts and different dangers. The Gems are ageless alien warriors who project female humanoid structures from mysterious gemstones at the center of their being. The Crystal Gems involve Garnet, Amethyst, Pearl and Steven—a young, half-human, half-Gem boy who acquired his gemstone from his mom, the Crystal Gems' previous chief Rose Quartz. As Steven attempts to comprehend his step by step extending scope of forces, he goes through his days with his dad Greg, his closest companion Connie, his mystical pet lion, other residents of Beach City, and the Gems. He explores the abilities inherited from his mother, which include fusion—the ability of Gems to merge their bodies and abilities to form new, more powerful personalities.[2]

Black Empowerment

This PSA is the second of a four-section ongoing series of anti-racism content including "Steven Universe" characters, carrying out every other month. With don't deny it, defy it played in OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes In a new public service announcement that started running on the network beginning Dec. 3, a classroom of students was asked by the character, "who invented the lightbulb?" "Thomas Edison," the students respond. The answer is not entirely true. The character uncovers that the invention could be more rightly attributed to Lewis Howard Latimer, the Black inventor liable for making the fiber inside the bulb. "We're not going to mention why he invented the filament? To create a better standard of living for people who had just been freed from slavery?" she says. "Are we going to ask about why kids are learning about Thomas Edison and not learning about Lewis Latimer?" Pearl — who is a "Gem," basically implying that she is an outsider being that exists as a mystical gemstone projecting into a holographic body — flips through a course reading in dismay. Where are the Black Roman fighters? Dark old-style artists? The Black cowhands? The Black military pilots? These individuals all existed ever, however are mysteriously absent in the book's pages.[3]

References

  1. Steven Universe. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 17 2021.
  2. Steven Universe. Wikipedia. Retrieved January 17 2021.
  3. Towers, Andrea. Cartoon Network Doesn’t Hold Back in Scathing Anti-Racism PSA. The Wrap. Retrieved January 17 2021.