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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her first book made a lot of “literary” waves (both by being loved and hated), and paved the way for similar memoirs, including many by black women (Roxane Gay is a clear descendant). People of any race who are into that world would have been aware of it, but if you’re not big into navel-gazing literary controversies it easily could have passed you by. [/quote]

I think what triggered me was that the reviews suggested that she had such an impact on Gen X.  I went to a women’s college and so that’s why I was really curious as a black woman.  This is been so intriguing to me that I called a girlfriend who is also black. She had the same reaction that I did. I told her I was calling her because she was black and went to Harvard so maybe she had a different perspective. She didn’t. We have the same perspective. We laughed about it.[/quote]

Yeah, but there are several whites women on the thread saying she had no impact or they didnt know who she was. So why extrapolate to a race distinction?[/quote]

PP posed a question and hypothesis. Why is the mention of race making you so uncomfortable?[/quote]

It's not the mention of race, it's the suggestion of extrapolating one person's experience into a racial thing. That's lazy and prejudiced. If I posted saying my coworker always suggests having wine at work and asked if that's a "black woman thing" people would be horrified, and for good reason. Or if I said my other coworker likes to imitate accents, and is that a "Hispanic thing." That's ignorant. I don't assume that because my coworkers of any particular race, age, religion do something, that that means everyone of that race, age, or religion does that thing. It's equally ignorant coming from this PP and from you.[/quote]

You've got to be joking.  There are cultural differences between races.  I believe they should be celebrated.  Why are you so offended.  I find that really interesting.  I look forward to learning about different races and cultures.  Don't you?  When I spend time with my best friend's family (she's Mexican), it's WAY different.  When I spend time with her Korean husband's family, it's WAY different.  What is wrong with that?  That's not ignorant.  I went to a Phish concert on New Year's Eve.  Definitely white space.  Do you listen to the Snap Judgement podcast?  Glenn Washington, the narrator and married to a white woman, did an entire episode on white space.  It was spot on. [/quote]

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