Also, my first thought was "I wonder what the people who hated the black actors in 'The Hunger Games' think of this book."
Smut books have always existed. It's the readers who are horny!Every writer nowadays is so fucking horny.
It's true. Cosby was and is awesome. Sanford and Son was great too, though.NBC had a special in the early 2000's celebrating some benchmark and they made a big deal about Cosby making an all-black sitcom so soon after the civil rights movement; as if all those other shows, like Sanford and Son, Good Times, or The Jeffersons didn't exist.
What I'm saying is a lot of white people have a love of Cosby that is just odd.
Also, my first thought was "I wonder what the people who hated the black actors in 'The Hunger Games' think of this book."
"Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists, "http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-foyt/interracial-relationships_b_1312303.html
The author talks about the book, I like this bit
Save the Pearls is a vanity published YA novel trying to bill itself as the next The Hunger Games.
What's everyone's Mate-Rate?
"Coals" isn't something a political in-group would call itself, especially while naming the out-group after something attractive like pearls. The author's choice of words really speaks to her inner racist turmoil.
Clearly this champion of civil equality is implying that we are living in a post-racial world where people are not categorized by race."Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists, "
What the fuuuuuuck
The cover looks like animorphs.
"White people can be oppressed, too."
"Not really, no."
"But what if they were, hypothetically? Wouldn't that be weird?"
...
"Coals" isn't something a political in-group would call itself, especially while naming the out-group after something attractive like pearls. The author's choice of words really speaks to her inner racist turmoil.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-foyt/interracial-relationships_b_1312303.html
The author talks about the book, I like this bit
Not only does she cast doubt on black people being readers, but she pulls the "my best friend is black" and "the get over it " double combo.
no no no
do not associate animorphs with this...
I don't think she is saying what you all think she is saying in that quote, but can't be sure since it's worded so badly, the rest of the article doesn't fit with the "lolz she thinks black people don't read" interpretation"Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists, "
What the fuuuuuuck
The publisher says that Save the Pearls turns the tables on racism.
Theory versus reality. The author doesn't actually seem to be approaching the topic with any degree of intelligence or tact.How exactly is this book racist? It sounds like social commentary.
In our world, whites are considered more desirable and generally have more powerful. This book turns that on its head and challenges them with the realities of our world but inverted.
How exactly is this book racist? It sounds like social commentary.
In our world, whites are considered more desirable and generally have more powerful. This book turns that on its head and challenges them with the realities of our world but inverted.
How exactly is this book racist?
It sounds like social commentary.
In our world, whites are considered more desirable and generally have more powerful. This book turns that on its head and challenges them with the realities of our world but inverted.
Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists
Not only does she cast doubt on black people being readers, but she pulls the "my best friend is black" and "the get over it " double combo.
Holy shit, you can't make this stuff uphttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-foyt/interracial-relationships_b_1312303.html
The author talks about the book, I like this bit
Not only does she cast doubt on black people being readers, but she pulls the "my best friend is black" and "the get over it " double combo.
This broad has lost her goddamned mind. So we don't read now? Ok....
No doubt most kids today would laugh at or find puzzling an incident that I now see influenced the way I thought about race in a blink of an instant.
Imagine this: a fourth grade girl with wild curly hair, huge green eyes and large bee-stung lips, her skin perpetually tanned from the Florida sun, stands alone waiting for her mother to pick her up after school. A large yellow school bus begins to pull away when a young boy sticks his head out of the window and hurls a racial slur at the girl.
Her first reaction is shame. He has slandered her with an ugly epithet -- a disgusting remark about her lips. Later, she wonders how he could possibly have mistaken her race. She is white, the remark usually targeted at blacks. (The term "African American" did not exist in that day.)
If you have power, then it makes sense to name yourself after power. Pearls are pretty, but they're useless and powerless, and those traits can be very ugly.If blacks had the "more powerful" I doubt they'd run around calling each other coals.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-foyt/interracial-relationships_b_1312303.html
The author talks about the book, I like this bit
Not only does she cast doubt on black people being readers, but she pulls the "my best friend is black" and "the get over it " double combo.
But you guys, she knows what racism feels like!
I just... I can't.Also, dat parenthetical.
This broad has lost her goddamned mind. So we don't read now? Ok....
...so once as a child she was called a slur that didn't even apply to her race? Truly a harrowing childhood.
Could it be that this got misinterpreted and what she is saying is that there are no communities in general based on races when it comes to reading?
Theory versus reality. The author doesn't actually seem to be approaching the topic with any degree of intelligence or tact.
She comes across more as having her head up her own ass than as actually hateful, but poignant social commentary this is not.
If blacks had the "more powerful" I doubt they'd run around calling each other coals.