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14864275 No.14864275 [Reply] [Original]

Why does everyone love that hack Toni Morrison but hardly anyone knows the amazing James Baldwin?

>> No.14864295

Dead?

>> No.14864303

>>14864275
>hardly anyone knows James Baldwin
Anyone who knows anything about African American literature knows the names James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, and Zora Neale Hurston.

>> No.14864310

>>14864275

Baldwin's already praised as a saint among twitterlibs. The real question is why hardly anyone knows about Nella Larson, or Jean Toomer.

>> No.14864325

>>14864275
He was a Marxist, so naturally, normie libtards try to downplay him and try to push modern hacks like Ta Nehisi Coates, who are mostly race-orientated rather than class-orientated.

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>>14864275
They are both are pretty much garbage

>> No.14864408

>>14864295
They are both dead
But i see normies sperg about morrison as some sort of black Shakespeare when she is john green tier at best.

>> No.14864415

>>14864310
Nella Larson died in obscurity and lived as she died.

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>>14864325
>In December 2017, the philosopher and activist Cornel West published an editorial in The Guardian with the title: "Ta-Nehisi Coates is the neoliberal face of the black freedom struggle"
> The premise of the article was that Coates "fetishizes white supremacy" and represents a "narrow racial tribalism and myopic political neo-liberalism" by wrongly casting former President Barack Obama as a successor to figures as Malcolm X as an African-American hero
>West believes that Obama should never be compared to civil rights activists, such as Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.,[31] who in their fight against white supremacy spoke out against systemic biases in predatory capitalism and war; according to West, this is because Obama, while he is of the same racial class, is part of the system that the activists should fight against

>> No.14864599

>>14864275
Why does everyone love marxists like Baldwin? What about people like Arlindo Veiga, he was a based traditionalist. WHY HASN'T ANYONE TRANSLATED HIS WORKS INTO ENGLISH

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>>14864275
>[[[morisson]]]
>[[[baldwin]]]
I like my black authors blacked, not mitzva'd, thanks

>> No.14864719

>>14864275
In America James Baldwin is very well known.

>> No.14865819

>>14864585
kinda based

>> No.14865850

>>14864275
Jesus tap dancing Christmas-birthing Candhrist imagine taking this simian face and its never-ending torrent of bleating infant wails of racial complaints seriously holy fuck the childish simian stupidity of niggers and their endless grievances like gorillas at the zoo who hoot and chest-beat and attack their poor white handlers who just want to feed and clean and water and care for them cradle to grave as the dumb aggressive animals follow their pointless jungle imperatives and make literally everything difficult and dangerous for no purpose other than their weird primate instincts holy fuck i hate ook-eeking monkey fucking niggers

>> No.14865861

>>14864710
She seems to have taken care of her honker. Good for her I guess, but I still can't unsee her face from ten years ago.