Robert Jones, Jr.
American writer from Brooklyn; author of the novel The Prophets (2021); creator of the Son of Baldwin community and the Witness newsletter.
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Their wordsHim wasn’t the best horror movie I have ever seen; not by a long shot. But what I discovered, to my great surprise, is that it is one of the most accurate.
- 10 days earlier
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Their wordsRegrettably, I find that under King’s pen, this legendary literary character reads as neither wonder nor woman.
↗Who’s Afraid of Wonder Woman?robertjonesjr.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Our reading
Capitalism pushes creators to aim at the largest paying audience whatever cowardice that takes.
Their wordsCapitalism compels us to direct all of our efforts toward the largest paying audience, no matter what cowardice is involved in doing so; no matter the artistic, ethical, legal, or spiritual catastrophe associated with it.
↗Who’s Afraid of Wonder Woman?robertjonesjr.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI tend to dislike so-called racebending (or any identity-bending) of established fictional characters because it strikes me as both lazy and greedy.
↗The Burden of Always Having to Be Terrificrobertjonesjr.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsI 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.
↗The Burden of Always Having to Be Terrificrobertjonesjr.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 8 weeks earlier
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Their wordsBut the comparison is foolhardy. It is reckless because the person comparing the situations is operating from the assumption that logic can reach or sway a white supremacist.
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsAnd anti-Blackness tells us nothing about Black people. It does, however, reveal, unassailably, the truth about whiteness.
↗On Juneteenthrobertjonesjr.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Our reading
“Happy Juneteenth” is an oxymoron, since the promise it marks has been perpetually broken.
Their words“Happy Juneteenth” is a blistering oxymoron. For how does one find happiness in pretense, in an empty token, in a pact perpetually broken, in a claim relentlessly untrue?
↗On Juneteenthrobertjonesjr.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece