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I felt the only person who
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
I felt the only person who got bitten by this story, as someone who is mixed race, was me.
The kids in this story are not the grotesques of satire; not obviously ridiculous; they are cheeky likeable scamps and the butt of most of the jokes...
Philip, a generation of black authors, post colonial authors like Linton Kwesi Johnson, emmerged in response to writing like this that portrayed black characters as ciphers and only gave a voice to white characters.
Shockingly, Phillip, there are people who would read this story and not realize there was anything absurd about the child protagonists attitude unless it was pointed out by a white character or one of the black characters could express themselves...
Elsie. Who are the readers of this story? Any person in the world could read the story on the internet. I can't claim with any certainty to know what is in the mind of everyone who reads this story or how they interpret the story.
A punk protest poem that runs amok upon the page swinging a baseball bat of invective.
I also liked the way you cut to images in your poem as if it were the script of a tv news broadcast. I thought that was quite innovative and gave the...
I remember reading "A Clockwork Orange" because I couldn't get hold of a copy of the film (still banned at the time) and not really understanding what all the fuss was about. Then having seen the kubrik film it still seemed less extreme than alot...
I felt the only person who
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
I felt the only person who got bitten by this story, as someone who is mixed race, was me.
The kids in this story are not the grotesques of satire; not obviously ridiculous; they are cheeky likeable scamps and the butt of most of the jokes...
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Philip, a generation of black
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
Philip, a generation of black authors, post colonial authors like Linton Kwesi Johnson, emmerged in response to writing like this that portrayed black characters as ciphers and only gave a voice to white characters.
If you read this story...
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Shockingly, Phillip, there
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
Shockingly, Phillip, there are people who would read this story and not realize there was anything absurd about the child protagonists attitude unless it was pointed out by a white character or one of the black characters could express themselves...
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"I don't think the story is
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
You say: "I don't think the story is racist, but draws attention to the casual racism of that era".
Does it really draw attention to it or does it just depict it without comment or condemnation or the balance the story would have if a...
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Elsie. Who are the readers of
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
Elsie. Who are the readers of this story? Any person in the world could read the story on the internet. I can't claim with any certainty to know what is in the mind of everyone who reads this story or how they interpret the story.
But if...
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Parson through. Please try to
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
Parson thru.
Please try to imagine you were a black father or mother reading this story.
You would see the child in the story as a baby that could be your child.
You would see a story in which the taking of a baby like your...
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I've read this 5 times
Posted on Wed, 13 Dec 2017
I've read this 5 times now and I think that, perhaps not all, but alot of non-white people are going to be uncomfortable reading this.
It is very much like something that would have been considered acceptable on TV in the 60's or 70's and...
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Comment: A Haiku
Posted on Mon, 06 Nov 2017
Comment: A Haiku
Comment from insert;
'Really enjoyed' my haiku's.
A bright Autumn day.
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A punk protest poem that runs
Posted on Fri, 16 Dec 2016
A punk protest poem that runs amok upon the page swinging a baseball bat of invective.
I also liked the way you cut to images in your poem as if it were the script of a tv news broadcast. I thought that was quite innovative and gave the...
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I remember reading "A
Posted on Tue, 01 Nov 2016
I remember reading "A Clockwork Orange" because I couldn't get hold of a copy of the film (still banned at the time) and not really understanding what all the fuss was about. Then having seen the kubrik film it still seemed less extreme than alot...
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