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conuly"It's set in a time when things were hard for black people in America" - a line which so flabbergasted me that I don't think I ever figured out what to say.
But this one may have topped it!
"The story is about a black girl, somewhere between 8 and 16 years old, from a black family."
...I'm dying to ask why they think they need to specify that this girl is the same race as everybody else in her family, when that's usually how this works. There's no indication in the rest of the post that we might have reason to think she's not.
But this one may have topped it!
"The story is about a black girl, somewhere between 8 and 16 years old, from a black family."
...I'm dying to ask why they think they need to specify that this girl is the same race as everybody else in her family, when that's usually how this works. There's no indication in the rest of the post that we might have reason to think she's not.
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Date: 2025-11-18 10:45 am (UTC)Really narrowing this down, too.