William J Richardson

Literally Rowling is painting ANOTHER white washed history of America with a dash of magic thrown it to make it feel fresh. Miss me with it.

The first HP story with the Native nature/shape-shifting magic vs the more controlled European/American magic was enough to turn me off tbh.

Now we see white folk create a magic institution that consumes native knowledge while erasing natives. Even in fantasy white supremacy rules

Its sad cause theres enough actual good history to create a better story than this. But this is why supporting non-white writers is CRUCIAL.

It is interesting how quick Rowling is to consume native knowledge n history for her story but as far as I can tell silent on Black folk.

This is quite standard: Whites want to consume the assumed natural native "connection to nature n land" but ignore the use of forced labor.

Its part of a white settler complex where they want to have a "real" connect to land (e.g. sovereignty/motherland) but do no labor (slaves).

Ergo in a white fantasy world the native is savagery whites compare the self to n supersed n Blacks are either silent labor or pure darkness

Not to say one is worse but that they are both necessary to create the settler belief of a "classless, landed, created by hand" society.

@asymbina can you imagine how fundamentally diff american hist would be if white/brown wizards worked together like she said?

native genocide? Nope? American slave trade? Lol nope. Come to think, wtf were British wizards doing at that time?

According to angry white men in a comments section, stopping slavery?https://twitter.com/asymbina/status/748486534152732673 …

lolololol I cant!!!

@NativeApprops That's an interesting issue: Is her narrative supposed to reflect the colonialist realities of history?

After all,if arriving British wizards had been enlightened, American history as a whole might've been different