In which Charles Schulz, a white housewife, & her black friend got the #WeNeedDiverseBooks convo right in 1968: http://flashbak.com/why-charles-m-schulz-gave-peanuts-a-black-character-1968-47081/ …
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Straight up "Adding a black kid as an extra isn't ideal but it's the best Schulz can do right now to break barriers"
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@arthur_affect@aflashbak I really appreciated both letter writers' pushing that he had enough power to push for better representation.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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@syntactics@aflashbak it's like Whoopi Goldberg talking abt how inspired she was that Uhura wasn't a maid1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@syntactics @aflashbak even though by our standards Uhura is not a very good character
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