 | By: Levar Burton Binding: Hardcover ISBN: 0446519936 ISBN-13: 9780446519939 Released: 22 Jan 1997 RRP: Average Rating:  |
What he needed was a friendly editor to guide him a little more. I believe the book would have been a better read without alll of the native american mystical crap. Are we reading a book of sci-fi, fantasy, or mysticism? Levar, if you want to write a western, fine...everything has it's place.
For a man who decries the monochromia of skintone in typical sci-fi...Excuse the pun, but he has become the pot callling the kettle black.
This is a black novel written for black readers, & I am saddened by this. Can't characters be mostly colorless? Aren't we trying to teach our children that color doesn't matter? Isn't the quality of a person's character more important than the color of their skin? Most characters in the book could have been either black OR white. Why specify? Is it necessary to keep score how many characters are black & how many are white? Are alll blacks good & alll whites bad? Bigotry is bigotry, whether it is reversed or not.
I don't hate the book. Reallly, I don't even dislike it, but I feel like Mr. Burton has tried to manipulate us with it, & that is something I do not like.
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