"Dumb little Mexican wench." Why is The @parisreview posting this garbage now?
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The woman that Jack Kerouac wrote about was a real person. Her name was Beatrice Rentería. She was 90 when she found out he wrote about her.
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Rentería was as disposable to Kerouac in real life as he made her in his absolutely racist trash fiction writing. It's disgusting.
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Why,
@parisreview? Why advertise this garbage today, where Kerouac describes Rentería with references to Aunt Jemima and "Mongol skin"? -
At a time when Mexicans are so maligned, so hated for existing,
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How about you actually publish work from a Mexican-American woman from East LA or the Central Valley,
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The
@parisreview masthead: more white women named Caitlin than there are people of color. It's 2017. This is shameful.pic.twitter.com/fxjoIOmdBa
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No,
@parisreview, you can't make this go away by suddenly tweeting an interview with James Baldwin. You're being even more offensive now.
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Glad you saw this too. I was seriously like WTFFFFFFF
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They just posted a Baldwin interview, as if that makes everything better. Did
@parisreview even ever publish Baldwin to begin with?!
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I fucking hate Kerouac. The continued slobbering over his *genius* makes me sick.
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On the road suuuucckkksssss
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There is not a racist word in this whole story. Keroauc is an American treasure.
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This is why people like you should never be in charge. You'll spend your time banning books and policing thought.
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It certainly betrays the bigoted time in which it was written, but does that make it 'racist trash'?
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stopped at the first paragraph, holy moly
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