rolling "Is This Racist?" thread

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

Our extensive background in the world of independent filmmaking gives us a fresh outlook on marketing our books. We have many resources for creating video book trailers and viral campaigns, coupled with expertise in marketing, public relations and social media strategy, that results in the unrivalled execution of book launches.

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)

I assume the thought process behind the book was "how can i rip off Noughts & Crosses and Hunger Games at the same time?" rather than any deliberate racism but it sounds like it has been done so ineptly it can't help but come across as enormously offensive.

honestly at first i gave her benefit of the doubt and assumed she wanted to show how ~absurd~ racism is by trying to get white ppl to relate (still completely racist) but after reading more i'm 100% convinced she's angry about reverse racism

^^ "by" meant "and trying to get white ppl..."

You might be right. It does sound like it has just taken the central theme of Noughts & Crosses (black ppl, or "crosses", oppress white ppl, or "noughts") and combined it with the survivalism of Hunger Games in an attempt to cash in but there could be a more sinister motive.

Noughts & Crosses is explicitly aimed at getting kids to think about racism from an alternative perspective and change their own assumptions / behaviours. However badly this has been written, and whatever motivation the author has, i assume the success of Malorie Blackman's series would have at least influenced the way this one was received.

Imo this book is about a bunch of weird racial issues the author has. Im not even going to get into the interracial relationship part, but the white supremacist fear of what poc would do in retaliation for their oppression if white privelege disappeared is a long-running theme in white supremacist thought. I mean, its the basic driving force in conservative immigration policy right?

cannot believe this book is real.

i didn't know about Noughts and Crosses either

please tell me the awards this foyt lady has won for these novels are basically you nominate yourself and you win awards. i can't stop thinking about these books and kids actually being encouraged to read them.

oh, wait, is she a self-publisher?

noughts and crosses is some UK thing, right? I don't think it's a us book.

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/07/31/01016-20120731ARTFIG00471-animateurs-suspendus-pour-avoir-jeune-colere-du-cfcm.php

Four Muslim summer camp workers have been suspended (w/pay) from a camp in Gennevilliers (just north of Paris) for observing Ramadan and not eating or drinking during the day. They claim they specifically did it to open a debate on the subject. Three years ago a Muslim woman working at the camp was involved in a bad car accident that injured some campers including a child. The suspended workers' CDDs (Fixed Term Contracts) specifically state that they must be "properly" fed and hydrated so as to be able to watch over their charges. The mayor of the town, interestingly, is communist. The CFCM, the French national Muslim association, has announced it's going to sue on the grounds of discrimination.

france

How laconic

Three years ago a Muslim woman working at the camp who was fasting for Ramadan was involved in a bad car accident that injured some campers including a child.

France is so fucking racist

b-b-but they love Miles Davis