Liar cover changed for paperback edition

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New Liar Cover I am still pissed. That hair is not nappy and the girl is lighter skinned than in the book, but...at least she is actually fucking black now? Fuck this shit to hell. I am tired of saying "at least".





Anyway, go buy the book please. Its supposed to be a good read, and we need to prove their fucked up perceptions wrong so that we can force them to actually get it right sometime in the future.

Comments

Dreads

[(Anonymous)]

Actually dreadlocks are basically the oldest hair style in the world and can be found in every race and were quite popular with Celts and Scandinavians (think WASP). They're not really something we can claim as only ours, our only thing is nappy. Even the mummy Tutankhamun had dreadlocks and he wasn't even black.

-DeT

Dear Anonymous DET

[avalon's willow (from livejournal.com)]

It's highly unlikely you will be checking back to see this, but I still felt the need to point out that the Scandinavians and the Celts were not calling their hair dreadlocks. That term was specifically applied by white colonials to black Jamaicans, specifically Rastafarians.

Thus the term dreadlocks has political, anti-colonial meaning, associated with false imprisonment, police brutality, black, dark brown skin and racism.

People with no clue about that, need to step the hell back from using the name in their colour-free and institutional racism free, majority white fantasies - as a sign of exotic other.

Re: Dear Anonymous DET

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I am glad that you clarified that even if anon doesn't check back.