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Perpetuating stereotypes or presenting the truth? Should an author, especially a minority author, be concerned with political correctness
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If they're selling into the "Dumpy Over-the-hill Leftist New-Age Moonbat Marin County
Women" market, then yeah they need to be totally PC, with lots of Caucasian guilt and self-loathing mixed in.
But if they're selling to the (probably even smaller) "Think For Themself" demographic... different story.

Whatever it is. True for the characters, true for the time in which it takes place, true for the story.
There is too much laundering, lancing and outright lying out there already . . . taught as history.


"Tony Brown, a syndicated columnist and the host of the television program Tony Brown's Journal has called the film THE COLOR PURPLE "the most racist depiction of Black men since THE BIRTH OF A NATION and the most anti-Black family film of the modem film era." Ishmael Reed, a Black novelist, has labeled the film and the book "a Nazi conspiracy."
a Black columnist in The Washington Post, Courtland Milloy, who wrote that some Black women would enjoy seeing Black men shown as "brutal bastards," and that furthermore, the book was demeaning. Milloy stated:
"I got tired, a long time ago, of white men publishing books by Black women about how screwed up Black men are."[4]
I remember watching an Oprah show way back when where a number of African Americans in the audience were calling the book and movie "racist" which seemed odd for a book written by an African-American. I've read the book and I've seen the movie and my take on it is that the male characters are "brutal bastards", but it's because they are male and not because they are black. The book is far more sexist than it is racist.
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