The first indication that this review has not gone through any sort fact-checking protocol is its inaccurate use of the word “Afro-Caribbean”. Nowhere in the novel are any of the characters referred to as Afro-Caribbean.
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The reviewer has intentionally erased & undermined the descriptor “Afro-Latin” despite it being on the flap copy & despite its pervasive use in the media, including
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She uses of the word “animus” to describe the young character’s concerns for her changing community. This reveals the reviewer’s marrow-deep bigotry & a limited understanding of the valid anger & frustrations of marginalized children.
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She fails to elaborate on her definition of “literary formality” nor does she indicate exactly who has described a novel as ever having “classical narrative tact”. She may have been expecting the archaic language in Regency-era novels, or the Queen’s English itself.
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The reviewer quotes a few lines of AAVE to falsely highlight the novel’s presumed intellectual inferiority. Clearly, she has a limited understanding of metaphor, wordplay, & the overall verbal ingenuity that Black children bring to the English language.
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Her heavy use of delusional intellectual superiority will undoubtedly amuse & validate those readers ages colonial to white supremacist who use it themselves, but it may otherwise limit the review's appeal.
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No, I absolutely will not be commenting on all reviews. But when you bring "those readers" into a review, you're talking about our children, many of whom are forced to bend & minimize their inherit genius to fit your idea of intelligence.
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WTF is “classical narrative tact”? Is that Becky-speak?
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I didn’t understand what she meant either.
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THE SWEARS COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH RIGHT NOW Good Lord. This is so far beyond acceptable, it can't even remember what acceptable even looks like anymore.
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