I just think, you know, had Sue Monk Kidd ever bothered to read To Kill a Mockingbird? Because that book nailed "Civil Rights in the South through the eyes of a young white girl," and you know, why'd she bother writing her own shitty take on that concept?
That's really it, the whole book is just dripping with the conceit that by just interacting with the black characters, the white protagonist is bestowing such a gift upon them all. And i thought all the black women characters were so stereotypical, magic mammies and sultry sexpots and shit. Don't even get me started on the fucked up figurehead-idol thing.
(I mean, i am 110% down with created spirituality and ritual, and investing meaning in personal symbologies and shit, i am not knocking that in GENERAL, i just felt that whole part of the story was like, some white person's fantasy-driven titillation at what she kinda thought might be omg bombastic black spiritualitye hallelujah praise the lawd omg.)
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That's really it, the whole book is just dripping with the conceit that by just interacting with the black characters, the white protagonist is bestowing such a gift upon them all. And i thought all the black women characters were so stereotypical, magic mammies and sultry sexpots and shit. Don't even get me started on the fucked up figurehead-idol thing.
(I mean, i am 110% down with created spirituality and ritual, and investing meaning in personal symbologies and shit, i am not knocking that in GENERAL, i just felt that whole part of the story was like, some white person's fantasy-driven titillation at what she kinda thought might be omg bombastic black spiritualitye hallelujah praise the lawd omg.)