fallingivy:

mamasam:

mind-the-neurogasm:

inbetweenthelineart:

jhenne-bean:

jedifreac:

bonnienoire:

racebending:

“Save the Pearls” is a vanity published YA novel trying to bill itself as the next “The Hunger Games.” The publisher says that “‘Save the Pearls turns the tables on racism.’”

It uses blackface as a plot device.

In author Victoria Foyt’s futuristic world, no one wants to mate with white people—or “pearls”—considered to be the ugliest humans oppressed by people of color. In order to survive, they must put on blackface make up to be attractive to the ruling class of “coals.” Hoyt explains: “their stunningly dark skin that carries the greatest amount of melanin…makes them the strongest, most powerful race alive.” The protagonist is a white girl who must smear her face with “midnight luster” make up in order to protect herself from radiation and in order to look beautiful to the oppressive “coals” in hopes that they will mate with her.

The rule in Eden’s post-apocalyptic world is: the darker the skin, the higher the mate-rate. Other factors calculated into one’s mate-rate include wealth or employment status. For example, Ronson Bramford, a handsome Coal titan of industry, is at the top of the heap with a mate rate of 98%. At age twenty-two, he only has two years left in which to mate—or else he’d probably have a 100% mate-rate. Tiger’s-Eyes, or Latinos, usually rate above Ambers, or Asians, in the future race wars. White-skinned Pearls offer little resistance to The Heat, and therefore, are at the bottom. Only a Cotton, or Albino, would be lower.”

THE MIND IT BOGGLES.

wow we can only care about racial oppression when it’s about white people

it’s not like there aren’t already people who believe that reverse racism is a real thing or anything

not like the story of racial oppression is more complex than a difference in populace and biological differences. 

yeah ok.

You know how they say that homophobia/heterosexism is just this fear that “men will treat you the way you treat women” and anti-feminism is fear that “women will treat you the way men have treated them”? This is kind of like that, right, this fear that people of color will treat you like how white people have treated them without any real reflection on what privilege means.

“TURNS THE TABLES ON RACISM”

Wut.

I’d like to think it’s like this experiment, but that most likely isn’t the case.

Sounds to me like a white author seeks to affirm this idea of mass institutionalized white oppression in the form of her own fantasy world so anthropology majors can feel better about themselves.

Aside from the many, nauseating, soul-destroying things wrong with this whole book…

Let’s take a moment to try to figure out why, in a fictional society where the darkest skinned people rule as attractive overlords, the best name they could give them was coal. COAL. The poor, unattractive, white skinned people are PEARLS but the author couldn’t find a single damn precious stone or gem for dark colors. Nope. Just coal. 

THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT

THE FUCK IS THIS SHIT

THE FUCK

oh my god is it horrible fucking literature year or something

we had to make up for the hunger games with this disgusting racist drivel

not that the hunger games has been really great with race lately

i can not even with this author thinking this is in any way okay

“turn the tables on racism”

THAT IS NOT HOW IT WORKS

and on the coal/pearl thing…even off the top of my head it could be like onyx/chalk. or SOMETHING. powerful ruling overlords would not call themselves coal, for fuck’s sake. oh those poor “pearls” are so oppressed.