I'm worried that HBO is going to Huck Finn an alternate history where black people are in chains.
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I'm worried about a narrative where black enslaved bodies are the battleground for the souls of white folks, separating good from bad yt ppl
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instead of being fully realized human beings. I'm worried about the slaves being too passive, and therefore not human.
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I'm worried about the slaves being too happy, and therefore not behaving as a human would behave under such circumstances.
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I'm worried this writers will not create a representation of blackness that is recognizable as human, and in doing so propagate...
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unhealthy ideas about black folks, whether it's making us too saintly or too selfish or too violent or too passive or whatever.
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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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But it's ESPECIALLY hard for white people in US. Those racist ideas stand between even great artists and creating fully human blk characters
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