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A Black character taking up a white character’s legacy feels too much like assimilation.
Drawn from what Robert Jones, Jr. said
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- Robert Jones, Jr. American writer from Brooklyn
I don’t even like the idea of a Black character, or any character of marginalized experience, following the legacy of a white character’s lineage, as is technically the case with Mr. Terrific. It feels too much like assimilation to me.
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↗The Burden of Always Having to Be Terrificrobertjonesjr.substack.com
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