Brave writer middle school series#

More recently, after the trailer dropped for Disney's live action reboot of The Little Mermaid, racists complained about Halle Bailey bringing her Black Girl Magic to the role, making boneheaded hashtags like #notmyariel and #gowokegobroke trend on social media.Īmid grousing about 'white erasure' - as if white people are now or have ever been historically underrepresented in fantasy films - it all felt like a twisted version of the argument former Fox News Channel anchor Megyn Kelly once made when she insisted that the fictional Santa Claus was white.

Brave writer middle school series#

In the piece, I admitted toward the end that the series still felt awfully white-centered to me, despite a few key characters portrayed by performers of color. I got similar feedback from a few sources on social media after my review was broadcast. The story isn't about you and doesn't have to be.' 'Your 'discomfort' at fantasy being at Eurocentric and white centered betrays a profound ignorance of the material and smacks of irrelevance and narcissism. Tolkien created the world the TV show is based on as mythology inspired by English history. 'I was embarrassed for you about your review of Rings of Power,' the message read. The note popped up from a listener a few days after my review of Amazon Prime Video's The Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power was broadcast on NPR. My first reaction when I saw the email was exasperation: This is not a debate we should still be having in 2022.