Cool, but where is the apology?
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More than that, where's the switch to highlighting classical Black authors during BHM?
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@angiecthomas They heard and changed it!
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Not really a reason to
. This campaign should never have existed. PeriodT. All parties involved openly agreed to the plan w/o expecting backlash? Either didn’t care or...didn’t care. It was an act of racist thinking IMO. - Show replies
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Two problematic books, "Peter Pan" and "The Secret Garden," are so breathtakingly racist it made a literal white-out for your AI. Can you imagine being a child of color, seeing a child of color on the front of "Garden" and then reading "blacks aren't people?"
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Seems to still miss the point. Shouldn't we aim to drive engagement with titles from Black authors if it was aimed to launch as a project in conjunction with Black History Month? I think acknowledgement that it missed the mark would be more impactful than explaining intent
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And, apologies, to further address how problematic this explanation is - BHM came into existence to, for one, counter internalized oppression (that was a result of exploitation) and highlight Black excellence. So to literally exploit Blackness to push White stories is so..obtuse
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There are plenty, plenty, plenty of classics written by Black authors for which you could have designed gorgeous new covers. (Same goes for BIPOC authors) This is
#BlackHistoryMonth
, not package white writers to seem more diverse (?!?WTF!?!) month.
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