Certain experiences diverge based on race. Experience of blackness in America is necessary for a certain understanding of American blackness
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Replying to @csilverandgold @SteveBlogs1 and
and, in my opinion, it is that understanding of American blackness---and deep, soulful thought to augment it...
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that is needed to make a show like this not be a disrespectful, morally bankrupt trainwreck.
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Replying to @SteveBlogs11 @SteveBlogs1 and
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.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @SteveBlogs1 and
and yet still, as a white man's idea of a black man, racism is embedded in every word written about him.
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Huck Finn was published in 1884. Clemens was alive during the Civil War. You can't expect this TV show to be like that.
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Yeah but Mark Twain was a genius. If one of the greatest writers in US history can't do it, why should I think these guys can?
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The core of your response is the assumption that there are fewer racist ideas floating around now than then.
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I'd say, in contrast, that there are DIFFERENT racist ideas than in the late 19th century, and maybe even fewer, but not so few...
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that they do not serve as an obstacle to any writer who has imbibed those ideas, and wants to create a fully human, non-racist blk character
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