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The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim released in 2024

Black Actors and actors of color give their voices to characters with straight hair as if to support the white supremacist lie that vikings were only white when they were multi-racial. Proof: mastodon.social/@audubonballro

MastodonAudubon Ballroon (@audubonballroon@mastodon.social)Vikings "were multicultural and multiracial." https://time.com/5569399/viking-history-white-nationalists/ #blackpeople #blackhistory #blackmastodon #whitepeople
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“Survivors of the scandal say they feel the government robbed them of their Black British identities and made them feel like aliens and non-entities.

“This hurt and trauma is felt by many people of colour and migration status as we constantly deal with microaggressions and everyday racism, which have an impact on our mental wellbeing.”

independent.co.uk/news/uk/home

The Independent · Mental distress ‘increased among Caribbean people in UK following Windrush scandal’By Nadine White
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 111.

Caleb Azumah Nelson' novella Open Water (2021) has an odd tone; its written in the second-person singular & as such often sounds accusatory of the protagonist (which perhaps it is). Its anglo-Ghanian subject navigates a deep love which (plot spoiler) falls apart after he experiences the murder of a friend. It contains some elegiac passages around #BlackBritish culture & while being a quick read (at 140 pp) is also deeply affecting

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