You Negroes have got to stop making up holidays. In this short, author Carleen Brice (Orange Mint and Honey, right), creator of the “National Buy a Book by a Black Author and Give it to Somebody Not Black Month,” half-dryly outlines her philosophy; invites white and Asian readers to try “new” Black writers in that happy corner of the bookstore where we’re typically segregated (for our own good, of course); and briefly wrestles with the presumptions of a prospective client, above. There’s even a blog.
While her YouTube’s tone is just a tad too gleefully “post-racial,” quote-unquote-unquote-unquote, for my tastes, Brice’s underlying point is eminently sensible, and, no, white people, Dreams of My Father and The Audacity of Hope don’t count.
[via BerniceMcFadden.com]
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