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	<title>Comments on: Black History Month 14: The Sambo Samba</title>
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		<title>By: Blog@Newsarama &#187; Just Past the Horizon: Bland?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Blog@Newsarama &#187; Just Past the Horizon: Bland?</dc:creator>
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		<description>[...] David Brothers at 4thletter!: This isn’t the first time I’ve had this issue with somebody. Around a year ago, I got into an [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Gokitalo</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gokitalo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:31:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;i&gt;Your reasoning ignores how omnipresent and accessible “white culture” is, and the degrees of inaccessibility that other groups are. The argument’s more sophisticated than I reproduced, but it includes the basic assertion that “white culture,” and white males in particular, do not possess any depth that cannot be readily grasped through watching Fox for an hour (and I am being generous in my paraphrasing). It privileges authors who are not white or male with greater insight than white males can ever possess.&lt;/i&gt;

Haha, I still stand by my argument, but that&#039;s a good point. I wouldn&#039;t go to the extreme of the last sentence, or even the Fox thing, but &quot;white culture&quot; is, to put it lightly, certainly very easy to find.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i>Your reasoning ignores how omnipresent and accessible “white culture” is, and the degrees of inaccessibility that other groups are. The argument’s more sophisticated than I reproduced, but it includes the basic assertion that “white culture,” and white males in particular, do not possess any depth that cannot be readily grasped through watching Fox for an hour (and I am being generous in my paraphrasing). It privileges authors who are not white or male with greater insight than white males can ever possess.</i></p>
<p>Haha, I still stand by my argument, but that&#8217;s a good point. I wouldn&#8217;t go to the extreme of the last sentence, or even the Fox thing, but &#8220;white culture&#8221; is, to put it lightly, certainly very easy to find.</p>
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		<title>By: notintheface</title>
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		<dc:creator>notintheface</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Val D&#039;Orazio is not the only one confusing Jefferson and John Henry:

Natasha is Steel&#039;s NIECE, not his daughter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Val D&#8217;Orazio is not the only one confusing Jefferson and John Henry:</p>
<p>Natasha is Steel&#8217;s NIECE, not his daughter.</p>
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		<title>By: JSmith</title>
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		<dc:creator>JSmith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;Which is why I think that argument makes no sense at all.&quot;

Your reasoning ignores how omnipresent and accessible &quot;white culture&quot; is, and the degrees of inaccessibility that other groups are. The argument&#039;s more sophisticated than I reproduced, but it includes the basic assertion that &quot;white culture,&quot; and white males in particular, do not possess any depth that cannot be readily grasped through watching Fox for an hour (and I am being generous in my paraphrasing). It privileges authors who are not white or male with greater insight than white males can ever possess.

And it&#039;s not me who needs to be told. I&#039;m a white male, so I just accept the argument as true because I don&#039;t want to see racist or sexist by saying it doesn&#039;t make sense or point out how hurtful it is to be told that I cannot ever understand anything other than what it is to be a white male.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Which is why I think that argument makes no sense at all.&#8221;</p>
<p>Your reasoning ignores how omnipresent and accessible &#8220;white culture&#8221; is, and the degrees of inaccessibility that other groups are. The argument&#8217;s more sophisticated than I reproduced, but it includes the basic assertion that &#8220;white culture,&#8221; and white males in particular, do not possess any depth that cannot be readily grasped through watching Fox for an hour (and I am being generous in my paraphrasing). It privileges authors who are not white or male with greater insight than white males can ever possess.</p>
<p>And it&#8217;s not me who needs to be told. I&#8217;m a white male, so I just accept the argument as true because I don&#8217;t want to see racist or sexist by saying it doesn&#8217;t make sense or point out how hurtful it is to be told that I cannot ever understand anything other than what it is to be a white male.</p>
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		<title>By: notintheface</title>
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		<dc:creator>notintheface</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 19:30:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I can defuse the &quot;white male writers can only write white male characters with any degree of proficiency&quot; argument with only two words: 

Grant Morrison.</description>
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<p>Grant Morrison.</p>
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