...is that a mullet?
Pearls of Wisdom with Victoria Foyt
Despite her rat-like existence in the Combs, a network of dark, shadowy underground tunnels, where civilization had burrowed to avoid the deadly levels of solar radiation, Eden would undoubtedly die from the Heat, just like her mother had.
tmarques said:Am I to understand blacks in the future are stupid enough to be taken in by black face?
Haha the writing is almost as offensively bad as the concept itself. Like, here's a random sentence:
How do I introduce all these events??? Uhh okay let me just work them all into one sentence and hope no one notices. I'm such a pearl of a writer!
This is the future where they have UNDERGROUND HOVERCRAFTS, MATE-RATES, and HOLOGRAM LIFE-BANDS WHICH LET YOU TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN THE PAST BUT ONLY WITHIN YOUR MIND, so I'm assuming blackface technology has gotten more advanced as well. Maybe they have special nanobot creams that make your face darker and your lips bigger, so that you can truly look like one of them.
So wait - they have all of this, but they can't come up with something to increase melanin production or block UV radiation? Oh, what am I saying. The Heat probably came so fast that all the rich white people interested in not dying would have instantly lost power, and the power hungry coal regime that rose from the ashes had it in their best interests not to develop it.
So wait - they have all of this, but they can't come up with something to increase melanin production or block UV radiation? Oh, what am I saying. The Heat probably came so fast that all the rich white people interested in not dying would have instantly lost power, and the power hungry coal regime that rose from the ashes had it in their best interests not to develop it.
They say it takes a village to raise a child. The same analogy may apply to creating a novel, which is another kind of birth.
Eden slumped back in her chair with a heavy sigh. I'm a stone in a cool, dark cave.
Her mother had pointed to a pile of bleached bones.
-We must be careful, daughter.
The message was clear: this is where you'll end up if you don't obey. All Pearls, the racist term for whites, feared the light.
So wait - they have all of this, but they can't come up with something to increase melanin production or block UV radiation? Oh, what am I saying. The Heat probably came so fast that all the rich white people interested in not dying would have instantly lost power, and the power hungry coal regime that rose from the ashes had it in their best interests not to develop it.
Leeness said:Apparently this is why the main guy becomes half-jaguar.
The scientists are experimenting with jaguars for some reason, to help ~pearls~ from dying in the sun, and then everything explodes and the main guy becomes a half-cat.
Yeah.
So wait, is this her father's GRAND EXPERIMENT that she talks about? Jaguars?
For seriously.The names she chooses for different races in her novel "coals", "pearls", "ambers", "tiger eyes", I'm so glad writers like this exist to shepherd us into our new post-racial world!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/victoria-foyt/interracial-relationships_b_1312303.html
The author talks about the book, I like this bit
Not only does she cast doubt on black people being readers, but she pulls the "my best friend is black" and "the get over it " double combo.
I been thinking of going a blog titled "You must not have minority friends or coworkers" .I remember Flashpoint. I always LOVE how Africa is always just, "that black continent". Whenever a story or a movie takes place there, it's always just "Africa", and there's some little black shirtless kid there just so ya know, yeah guys we're in Africa. You never see a story take place in "Asia" or "North America". No, Africa is just this giant, homogenous place from the fuckin' Lion King.
Nice cover, too.
Killer monkeys who rule the entire continent of Africa.
I imagine there were no black people working at DC who looked twice at any of this shit.
Why are these girls all lined up outside a bookstore at 11PM? It's not the latest Harry Potter or Twilight novel; it's a new bestseller for young adults that has tongues wagging over its controversial use of race.
In "Save the Pearls" from Victoria Foyt, a far flung future sees a society in which ultraviolet radiation from the destruction of the ozone layer causes darker skinned peoples to be healthier and placed in positions of power. Lighter skinned peoples are lower on the social rungs, with whites, or "pearls," on the bottom. Those who cannot have children by the age of 22 are cut off from government services, with "coals" (or blacks) having the highest rate of reproduction and "pearls" at the bottom. Foyt maintains the premise merely turns the table on standard concepts of racism. Critics believe that it's subverting young minds.
"This is astonishing," says Miranda Harper, a mother of 3 who has come to protest the book opening. Harper, who is black, says that the book is the latest incarnation of old racist ideas. "It's just miscegenation fears all over again."
Many readers don't agree.
"I think this book is, like, a real good look at what, like, things are actually happening and going to happen," said one 16 year old girl who refused to be named. "Like, we have a black president, y'know? So it's not like things are bad for black people. And Russel is the only black guy in our class but all the other girls want to go out with him because he's really funny, like, Mellisa says she made out with him last week."
"Skank," she added.
"I think the political correctness police are afraid that their double standards are being exposed. They're sexualizing our children and saying that blacks are sexier," said one middle aged man who enjoys young adult novels. "When Eden [the protagonist] and Bramford [her black boyfriend] engage in biblical relations... It... it really... It makes you think. Excuse me."
The debate has gone beyond the bookstore and to a national stage.
"We could not believe the content of the book," said Shelinda McCormick of the Southern Poverty Law Center. McCormick, who is black, went on to say, "Young adult fiction is one of the fastest growing areas of modern literature. The ideas we pass onto our next generation are important. If we tell them that blacks are 'beast like,' then will it be any surprise if they engage in racist thought later in life?"
Some public figures are defending the book however. Former Governor Sarah Palin tweeted a picture of her and her husband Todd holding newly purchased copies of the book. Included with the picture was the message, "you go sister victoria showing the sex/racist lib media whos boss. loved romance scnes "
Palin's tweet sparked a firestorm of controversy, with celebrities both condemning and praising the former VP candidate.
"yo sarah i loved that part too. lets start a book club to discuss it," responded Glen Rice in a reply tweet. Rice, who is black, is a former NBA star.
At broadcast time, Sand Dollar Press, the book's publisher, refused to comment.
For NBC, this is Anne Curry.
the power hungry coal regime that rose from the ashes
Reading this so hard. I love terrible books. This is gonna be hilarious.
In the writing "biz" (business) this is what we call a simile. Eden thinks about a stone in a dark cave, because she's a precious stone in the midst of darkness (black people [I shouldn't write things]).
According to the Oh No They Didn't comments, the rest of the book plays out like this (spoiler-tagged so we can all enjoy the wonderful color of coal):
The coal guy she thinks loves her is in fact a terrorist, and organizes an attempt to blow up her father's lab. So then the rich guy who's funding the experiments has the dad inject him with the cure serum stuff, which is how he becomes a Beast Man, and then he and the main white chick run away to the rain forest together and eventually stop hating each other. I think this is when she rides him. Some people who speak Spanish show up? So I guess living outside isn't as deadly as everyone thinks?
It turns out the main girl looks like beast-man's dead wife, who he'd had an albino baby with. Man and woman fall in love, shocker, and the albino baby winds up injected with jaguar-snake-bird DNA too to make it more immunity resistant. And then the book ends with the main girl deciding to go furry too.
I still really want to read this trainwreck. It sounds so awful.
According to the Oh No They Didn't comments, the rest of the book plays out like this (spoiler-tagged so we can all enjoy the wonderful color of coal):
The coal guy she thinks loves her is in fact a terrorist, and organizes an attempt to blow up her father's lab. So then the rich guy who's funding the experiments has the dad inject him with the cure serum stuff, which is how he becomes a Beast Man, and then he and the main white chick run away to the rain forest together and eventually stop hating each other. I think this is when she rides him. Some people who speak Spanish show up? So I guess living outside isn't as deadly as everyone thinks?
It turns out the main girl looks like beast-man's dead wife, who he'd had an albino baby with. Man and woman fall in love, shocker, and the albino baby winds up injected with jaguar-snake-bird DNA too to make it more immunity resistant. And then the book ends with the main girl deciding to go furry too.
I still really want to read this trainwreck. It sounds so awful.
According to the Oh No They Didn't comments, the rest of the book plays out like this (spoiler-tagged so we can all enjoy the wonderful color of coal):
The coal guy she thinks loves her is in fact a terrorist, and organizes an attempt to blow up her father's lab. So then the rich guy who's funding the experiments has the dad inject him with the cure serum stuff, which is how he becomes a Beast Man, and then he and the main white chick run away to the rain forest together and eventually stop hating each other. I think this is when she rides him. Some people who speak Spanish show up? So I guess living outside isn't as deadly as everyone thinks?
It turns out the main girl looks like beast-man's dead wife, who he'd had an albino baby with. Man and woman fall in love, shocker, and the albino baby winds up injected with jaguar-snake-bird DNA too to make it more immunity resistant. And then the book ends with the main girl deciding to go furry too.
I still really want to read this trainwreck. It sounds so awful.
According to the Oh No They Didn't comments, the rest of the book plays out like this (spoiler-tagged so we can all enjoy the wonderful color of coal):
The coal guy she thinks loves her is in fact a terrorist, and organizes an attempt to blow up her father's lab. So then the rich guy who's funding the experiments has the dad inject him with the cure serum stuff, which is how he becomes a Beast Man, and then he and the main white chick run away to the rain forest together and eventually stop hating each other. I think this is when she rides him. Some people who speak Spanish show up? So I guess living outside isn't as deadly as everyone thinks?
It turns out the main girl looks like beast-man's dead wife, who he'd had an albino baby with. Man and woman fall in love, shocker, and the albino baby winds up injected with jaguar-snake-bird DNA too to make it more immunity resistant. And then the book ends with the main girl deciding to go furry too.
I still really want to read this trainwreck. It sounds so awful.
According to the Oh No They Didn't comments, the rest of the book plays out like this (spoiler-tagged so we can all enjoy the wonderful color of coal):
The coal guy she thinks loves her is in fact a terrorist, and organizes an attempt to blow up her father's lab. So then the rich guy who's funding the experiments has the dad inject him with the cure serum stuff, which is how he becomes a Beast Man, and then he and the main white chick run away to the rain forest together and eventually stop hating each other. I think this is when she rides him. Some people who speak Spanish show up? So I guess living outside isn't as deadly as everyone thinks?
It turns out the main girl looks like beast-man's dead wife, who he'd had an albino baby with. Man and woman fall in love, shocker, and the albino baby winds up injected with jaguar-snake-bird DNA too to make it more immunity resistant. And then the book ends with the main girl deciding to go furry too.
I still really want to read this trainwreck. It sounds so awful.
Man, that post is devastating. That girl went IN. So many great points...From that goodreads link:
This 17 year old white girl gives me hope for the future. Good on you, white girl!
At least he attempted to break the stereotype
or ok, maybe just kinda-sorta break it
This... The book and everything coming out of the author's mouth is such a clusterfuck of horrible nonsense. I mean--the tears i have in my eyes from reading this thread are most unlike any tears ive ever shed before
ohthe pdf disallows copy and paste and so i'm not gonna retype this last part but apparently the heroine's father was so smart on intelligence tests that they made him the head scientist and got her a job as a researcher too. and she's one of only three people to understand how his genius work will save the planet.
to recap: her dad "despite" being white got a job as boss over all the black people because of his natural intelligence, and his daughter got a job out of nepotism but everyone looks at her funny. even in the dystopian racist nightmare the white heroine still benefits from privilege and will save the world
myIn the future, even being a furry is preferable to being dark skinned...
Ain't this a....
GODAccording to the Oh No They Didn't comments, the rest of the book plays out like this (spoiler-tagged so we can all enjoy the wonderful color of coal):
The coal guy she thinks loves her is in fact a terrorist, and organizes an attempt to blow up her father's lab. So then the rich guy who's funding the experiments has the dad inject him with the cure serum stuff, which is how he becomes a Beast Man, and then he and the main white chick run away to the rain forest together and eventually stop hating each other. I think this is when she rides him. Some people who speak Spanish show up? So I guess living outside isn't as deadly as everyone thinks?
It turns out the main girl looks like beast-man's dead wife, who he'd had an albino baby with. Man and woman fall in love, shocker, and the albino baby winds up injected with jaguar-snake-bird DNA too to make it more immunity resistant. And then the book ends with the main girl deciding to go furry too.
I still really want to read this trainwreck. It sounds so awful.
My first thought was Chris Bosh
The youtube channel is so cot damn ridiculous.
Here's an online dating profile from a "coal" : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMZ4MEwj_MU
What in the hell?
On a side note, ECG's post was brilliant. I really loved the "who is black" line being repeated, I notice the media uses that trick a lot. Sickening.
first sentence of video description said:Hey boys, she's got one thing on her mind... and it's not cooking!
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THIS WOMANfrom the website said:I'm Eden Newman. In six months, I'll be 18.
If we don't save the Pearls before that, I'm doomed.
Being a Pearl is the most horrifying nightmare of all - find out why and help save me from The Heat!