Wedding makes no sense.

It's not my main reason. I can actually accept the fact that Bamon will most likely not be romantic. However I can't accept the fact that JP has linked Bonnie's death to Elena returning and a Delena endgame and Bonnie has to die for a white character to return and a white ship to be reunited. I find it very wrong that a black characters death is the key to a white characters happiness, considering the history of this country. And with black lives matter going on currently.

Firstly, it hasn't been written that Bonnie HAS to die in order for Elena to return. The narrative is that Bonnie will live out her natural life before Elena gets to live hers. Very different interpretations but only mine is supported by the white girl explicitly spelling it out. "We both get what we want, we just can't have it at the same time" (paraphrasing). These girls love each other so much, and that was made very clear to me.

Secondly, if Elena wakes up early it will be because a loophole to break the spell will be found meaning both girls get to survive. Bonnie is not going to die.

P just has enabled Delena fans and Bonnie haters in that fandom to cheer for the death of Bonnie for the sake of their ship and want the death of Bonnie. Which is a problem since some DE Stans have attacked Bonnie based off of the color of her skin and have called her racial slurs and compared her to a slave.

This sounds to me like Twitter wars in which I have seen equally horrible things said by both fandoms. The Elena haters are equally disgusting with their insults and JP has received abuse and hate from the Bonnie/Bamon fandom that is just as unacceptable as anything the DE fans have said. There is no enabling, JP is telling the story she wants to tell/

JP can spin Bonnie having a long and happy life and then her dying for Elena and it would still be wrong for the history of Bonnie being a plot device to serve Elena whenever she was in trouble or in danger and her losing things and suffering for Elena's life. Writing that Elena's life is worth more even in Bonnie's eyes.

If Bonnie lived a long and happy life then died because it was her natural time to die, then she wouldn't be dying for Elena. It would mean Elena would wake sure, then it would be her time to live out the rest of her life...off screen, because we sure as hell ain't going to see it are we?
The writing is showing the opposite of what you are saying. The writing is SAYING that Bonnies' life is equal to Elenas' in the eyes of her friends and loved ones. Initially Damon was conflicted and resentful but that has changed, but literally no one else has even suggested risking Bonnies' life to resurrect Elena. Tying Bonnie to Elena ensured that Bonnie will live given the fact that Nina left the show and is unlikely to return until the very very end (If that). The writers did that knowing Nina was leaving with only a verbal promise that she would return at the end. Back then, JP and the CW were talking about maybe going for a good few more seasons, maybe as many as 10.

Also with the other POC/black characters. Making Beau mute and a servant to his white family and then killing him off. Beau not getting nearly as much attention as the white heretics did. Bringing Lucy and Sarah back just to quickly kill them off. Bringing on POC extras, just to have them killed off. Can put a lot of effort into keeping around Alaric/Matt/Enzo, but doesn't try to build a place for another POC character outside of Bonnie.

I agree with all this. The writing for POC has not been stellar and at times tone deaf.

Can always acknowledge Delena trends, "reward" Delena fans with a rainkiss.

The rainkiss "reward" as you call it was for the fans that have been dying to see it since S1 "let the right one in". 6 years of campaigning and pleading etc, etc, etc not to mention the amount of awards, recognition and publicity this fandom has generated throughout the entire series run. (Personally I wish they had trended "DE shower sex" but I digress) It was a nod to the support of the fans for all the support given to her show. Other parts of the fandom have also been given their fair share of "rewards" for their investment of the show, but not everyone can get everything they want. JP stated somewhere that the Bamon friendship was honored in service of the book fans that wanted to see that friendship (emphasis on friendship) evolve onscreen.
Ultimately the story they want to tell we be told. No amount of meta and pleading will ultimately change the series arcs or the stories they want to tell, even if little tidbits are given along the way. Klaroline fans are still waiting for their endgame too.

But, when she is sent articles and metas on why her writing for Bonnie is harmful and racist to black people or why it bothers POC to watch Bonnie being treated in such a way, she either glosses over it, ignores it, or gets defensive and acts like we are the bad guys for calling it out and trying to make her understand.

Perhaps she see's it as shipper based bias. Bonnie has been given love stories with white and black characters but the shippers continue to bombard her with racist accusations. JP has blocked many DE fans that abuse and harrass her everytime the story goes in a different way to how they envisaged, I would wager she has fans from all TVD fandoms blocked.

the writers admit that they know that Bonnie fans are tired of seeing her in pain and on the short end of the stick, yet choose to end Season 7 and began Season 8 with Bonnie in pain and suffering again anyway, because Bonnie is "strong."

Now you are criticizing them because they want to portray her as being strong, and a fighter? I don't get it. Last season she was the perpetual damsel in distress needing to be saved. When she is a witch saving everyone with her powers that is wrong too.

Keeping Bonnie held back for Delena matters more than trying to show that Bonnie as a black character should get equal treatment to her white characters. Holding Bonnie down with the link for the sake of keeping Delena fans invested mattered more to JP, then allowing Bonnie not to have the burden of Elena's coma held over her head.

Oh c'mon. Elena has carried the burden of knowing that her status of being the doppelganger has endangerd and caused the death of many people in her life. Your fixated on delena mattering more when the writers are going out of their way to show that the opposite is true. Everyone on the show has been dedicated to keeping Bonnie alive, including Damon.
The delena fans are still invested because of the narrative keeping her in it, and i'm not denying that a few rabid fans are just waiting for tragedy to befall Bonnie, but true fans of the whole show just want a happy ending for both girls.
I enjoy DE, but most DE fans I converse with would not want it at the expense of BB because it would taint it forever. I would rather DE just faded away and Damon and Elena got a different but satisfactory endgame rather than that happen (Excluding Bonnie dying 60-80 yrs from now happy and fulfilled).
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