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succugeek:

So this whole “Save the Pearls” thing is already really fucking ridiculous, but I think it takes on a whole new layer when you realize the author wrote the book because she was so traumatized at being mistaken for a black girl and called ugly for it.

No, seriously.

Imagine this: a fourth grade girl with wild curly hair, huge green eyes and large bee-stung lips, her skin perpetually tanned from the Florida sun, stands alone waiting for her mother to pick her up after school. A large yellow school bus begins to pull away when a young boy sticks his head out of the window and hurls a racial slur at the girl.

Her first reaction is shame. He has slandered her with an ugly epithet — a disgusting remark about her lips. Later, she wonders how he could possibly have mistaken her race. She is white, the remark usually targeted at blacks. (The term “African American” did not exist in that day.)

Confused and hurt, she wonders why her appearance should elicit such hatred. She hides this incident in the back of her mind and never repeats it to anyone until many years later when she writes a book in which she turns racial stereotypes upside down.

Only when I began to answer interview question and answers, did I recall the incident, and wonder how it had informed the story. Writers pluck bits and pieces from their lives and weave them, often unconsciously, only hoping the seams between reality and fiction do not show.

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W O W

MY FUCKING GOD

NOPE

NOPE

NOPE

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    Dude what? I got called “n****r lips” at school, I’m white, I didn’t go write weird crappy racist fiction about it. I...

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    I’m gonna have to smack a bitch ain’t I.

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    I hate everyone

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    This makes me remember a weird idea I had a long time ago, where there were different races of people, each of which had...

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