- ramin ganeshram claims she also objected to the "overjoviality" of the illustrations
- blames the final product on the fact that publishers approve/choose illustrators
- continues with her hercules was not a normal oppressed slave, he was special!!! narrative from before
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previously, she's said that "in our modern society" we just can't understand how someone could enslave another person and still respect them but that was the reality back then (yikes))
- says that washington could have hired anyone to be his chef, and instead "depended" on hercules
- washington showed his great respect for hecules by letting hercules bring his son to philly even though his son was known to be a shitty cook (??)
- she's done all the research okay!
- banning her book is an erasure! (nb: in reality, the publisher chose to pull the book after first defending her)
- "it goes without saying that [slaves'] lives were harder and crueller than we could possibly imagine with our modern, free outlook" (jfc)
- her twitter account is back up btw
source:
guardian books twitterit seems like she's just not willing to understand that she's wrong.
on a more positive note, what have you been reading for black history month, ontd?