rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

The first installment in the Save the Pearls series of fantasy romance novels, Revealing Eden recently won the 2012 Eric Hoffer Award in the Young Adult Category, the Best YA Fantasy Award from Books & Authors, and was runner up in the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival!

This is the part that gets to me, how could anyone look at this and think it is anything but garbage?

What in the actual fuck? Is there not someone anywhere in that person's life who was like, "this is not a good idea"?

Acclaimed writer VICTORIA FOYT blends equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this captivating dystopian novel set in a terrifying future, which is all too easy to imagine, if you're a huge creep.

midnight luster = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAztPZBQrrU

Victoria Foyt is an American author, novelist, screenwriter and actor. Her debut novel, The Virtual Life of Lexie Diamond, is a coming-of-age mystery thriller geared toward the young adult audience. The well-received novel was published in 2007 by HarperCollins Publishing and was recommended by The Center for Children's Books. Foyt co-wrote and starred in four critically acclaimed feature films, Going Shopping (2005), Déjà Vu (1997), Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995), and Babyfever (1994) with her husband, indie film director Henry Jaglom.

!!!!!!

"I've got to save myself... and my dog Austin too"

Ugh.

what the shit

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi413532441/

Otherwise, I'm happily surprised to say there has been not a blip of protest.

Fucking hell.

So what does the lack of any racial outrage or puzzlement or fervor amidst the tremendous rain of positive reviews possibly say?

I was wishing and hoping and praying there would be a backlash to the twist on racial issues I present in my new Young Adult novel, Save The Pearls, Part One, Revealing Eden.

She uses the term "white race" and refers to a white-black relationship as "Beauty and the Beast" all while patting herself on the back for being race-blind. Smdh

Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists, perhaps there might be some backlash.

what

omg that trailer

Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists, perhaps there might be some backlash. The first young African American reader who responded to me loved the book. But then, she's the kind of free spirit who would eschew limiting herself to a single category.

the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,
the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,
the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,
the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,
the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,
the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,

Does she mean that in this oh-so colorblind world that it's just a community of readers without any racial designation or that there is no longer a community of African-American readers?

Because, I'll tell you which meaning comes across much faster in the context of the rest of the article...

i think usage of the phrase "lack of any racial outrage" should likely be embargoed until The Heat is actually the leading cause of death among young adult authors

This says a lot about how terrible the "book review blogging community" is if no one even batted an eyebrow at this trash.

Some folks might call it an interracial relationship. I calls it more something like "Beauty & The Beast". There, that's much better, right?

i had an awesome idea: what if black people were REVERSE VAMPIRES? omg, i'm gonna get a movie deal so fucken fast

The first young African American reader who responded to me loved the book. But then, she's the kind of free spirit who would eschew limiting herself to a single category.

Racial puppetry in HuffPost troll pieces.

truly, the internet is unanimous in approval of this book
http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/save-the-pearls

christine brooke-rose wrote a novel about an oppressed white population in post-nuclear war africa. it was actually quite a good novel.

god is this going to take off

http://www.amazon.com/Revealing-Eden-Save-Pearls-Part/dp/0983650322
lol, keep scrolling past the sales info to get to the actual reviews

the internet seems to have discovered this over the past day or two, I think it's going to take off into the garbage

Still, 31 5-star ratings versus 10 1-star ratings. smdh

read a few of those ratings, they are cousins and agents

the arms of a powerful beast-man she believes is her enemy

the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists,

I can't parse this, I'm trying to be compassionate toward this woman's stupidity but it's impossible

if i change my DN to Coal Porker have i crossed a line?

if this series becomes successful, I seriously give up

I do have great love for the tumblr post that read "If you want a vision of the future, imagine boot polish on a human face. Forever."

But yeah obviously fuck this shit.

white women in peril, dystopian YA sci-fi edition

If this seriously does take off and become "a thing" I'm pretty much going to throw my arms up in the air and go live in a cave.

Like the rest of the pearls, gotcha.

lol well played

this is the most horrific thing

this is just some ignore-able self-published junk, right? hopefully not the next 50 shades of grey

hey guys is this racist

http://www.fox19.com/story/19125864/black-wedding-banned-by-baptist-church

dunno this seems like some boneheaded provocative "I went there!" attempt to teach kids about racism by flipping the script or something? nb I have not read anything other than this thread

xp holy what

Church officials say they welcome any race into their congregation. They now plan to hold internal meetings on how to move forward, should this situation occur again.

Tiger’s-Eyes, or Latinos, usually rate above Ambers, or Asians, in the future race wars. White-skinned Pearls offer little resistance to The Heat, and therefore, are at the bottom. Only a Cotton, or Albino, would be lower.

^^real

StP will be the most lucrative film franchise ever and by 2075 everyone will call latinos "tiger eyes"

dear god "cottons"

racism is over

whew

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/28/White_Mans_Burden.jpg

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from the publisher website, sanddollarpress. This appears to be the only book they are involved with. It has taken seven months, but it has finally gone viral.

The protagonist of her earlier novel, written for News Corp., was described as "a teen as appealing as Holden Caufield" in one of the six reviews obtained by Amazon. (amazon, I'm dreaming of a series of teen dystopias about some big tiger-eyed bitches oppressing some normalish dudes)