#+racist anti-racists who's only read two or three black authors whom you deify into inhumanity

[mystacoceti]

why are all the tumblr literati getting mad over someone calling James Baldwin pretentious? you guys only like the pretentious pull quotes from the novels anyway

#I'm sorry there are contemporaries of Baldwin who called him pretentious. this is only scandalously controversial if you're one of the+ #+racist anti-racists who's only read two or three black authors whom you deify into inhumanity #to correct this attitude you could try to — dare I say it — read another book.