I just embiggened & I am...breathless at how many of these rely on racist tropes. Go look at Dorothy's slippers. Go on. I'll wait.
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I just looked at Jekyll & Hyde...I need to be tipsy for this because it literally pays lip service to inclusion without being remotely respectful of diversity. I...whew. And fun fact, several of the classics (looking real hard at Peter Pan) are full of racism
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Because many of the covers are of the villains or the dead. And conveniently these titles are largely public domain so no one of color is getting paid from these sales. They could really just stock books written by authors of color & face out their actual covers
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There's a judge a book by its cover joke in here somewhere
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Wow. I'd say Barnes & Noble was missing the point on what diversity actually means, but I'm sure their only motivation was a shameless low effort cash grab.
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I was thinking this. So... A white man made a black "monster"? And is hunting him down when the novel starts?pic.twitter.com/86PY6HIpu6
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That part is unifying
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