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Jun 19, 2021Liked by Erik Kain

I assure you, Erik. As a Black man, many of us are not wailing in agony over not being represented in this movie. Only ones who are wailing belong to a very small but vocal minority.

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"whinging endlessly into the void," I feel like you're channeling your inner Sandor Clegane. Great piece.

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Another great piece! I do enjoy your balanced takes. I know mine aren't always so.. I try lol.

Its interesting, the end of the "whiteness is bad" and "lighter skin is whiteness" road is that only Africans, specifically women, are the most "pure" and "untainted". Its like they just flipped a certain facist rule book to work the other way around and also twisted all the negative things with positive sounding words. The noose will keep closing as more and more groups aren't dark enough. Even other africans wont be dark enough eventually I imagine. I dont pin this on african people anywhere, this is the doing of a small hateful group that has spite towards other groups disguised as hate for one acceptable target... especially when its profitable. I dont think this was all on purpose, I think its what happens when you rile up mobs and then validate their hate over and over for profit and dont care about consequences. Not trying to be inflammatory or a conspiracy crack pot, just my opinion.

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Amen! I’m so sick of the apologizing! This small group needs to stop the f***ing whining. I can’t wait to bring my elderly PR mom to dance in the aisles whilst watching this movie. Loved the article.👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

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Holy cow. You’re a broken record at this point. Just like Maher. Every single show of his. All your columns. They’re the same. Stop making me think about race. We passed the civil rights act and that should be enough for you people.

You’re a critic. That’s your day job, so to speak. You acknowledge 70% of the Washington Heights is Latino. I promise you that 100% of them, unlike the film, are not all very light skinned. That seems to me to be a valid criticism of the casting. Lin acknowledged as much.

Meanwhile, repubs in Georgia and Texas are removing POC from local election boards as fast as they can. But it’s this that gets you and Maher in a lather.

It is important for the liberal to see that the oppressed person who agitates for his rights is not the creator of tension. He merely brings out the hidden tension that is already alive.

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