Lol, yes, have you read Huck Finn? That's what I'm concerned about. Jim is one of the best-written characters in American literary history.
Do you understand how hard it is to create a fully human character? Writing is really hard work, and we all write into our imaginations.
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We write into our fantasies, we write up to the limit of what we understand about reality, and we write with our whole selves.
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It's hard for anyone---white, black, or otherwise---to have a "whole self" that is free of racist ideas, bc racist ideas are everywhere.
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