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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rare Bird tweeted: ‘Natasha Tynes … did something truly horrible today in tweeting a picture of a metro worker eating her breakfast on the train this morning and drawing attention to her employer. Student with Down syndrome makes history by graduating from college ‘Black women face a constant barrage of this kind of inappropriate behavior directed toward them and a constant policing of their bodies.’ In a statement issued the following day, California Coldblood added: ‘We do not condone her actions and hope Natasha learns from this experience that black women fee the effects of systematic racism the most and that we have to be allies, not oppressors.’ California Coldblood later said they were working on ‘next steps to officially cancel’ the publication of her novel, called They Called Me Wyatt.

Read more: https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/13/authors-book-deal-canceled-shames-public-transport-worker-eating-train-9517028/?ito=cbshare
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroUK | Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/[/quote]

Working on next steps is not the same as actually canceling.

But I still don't see where they encouraged other publishers not to publish her?[/quote]

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