The woman at the bar with a book: When it happens to you: White Washing
moya
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There are a number of things really, really wrong with this. I’ll admit. When I hear about white washing it involves an author and book I’m probably not going to read. It upsets me but not on a real personal level because those aren’t my books. It’s wrong and shady and so racist it’s offensive. I understood all of that.
And then it happens to you.
I never thought a Black SciFi book that I loved would be a white washed and then I see this cover in a forum. It broke my mind a little. Lilith? White woman? And the white guy alien? I mean you not only white washed Lilith, who was black and was stated to be black like all through the book. She didn’t just happen to be black or was like some maybe race defined as not white. Naw, son. She was Black with a capital ‘B’.
They don’t even stop there though. The alien on this cover is white! A white alien? What the hell? People won’t read alien books unless it looks like the cover of ‘V’? REALLY? Did they even read the back of this book? Maybe the first two chapter? What the hell is this?
Man. You never think it’ll happen to you and then it does. I’m mad right now.
WHAT
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