[HPforGrownups] Re: Caribbean

[Snuffles MacGoo]

No: HPFGUIDX 7034

I don't know that it ever does, (I think) simply this is an assumption made on 
the basis of his dreads. ( I think). Who knows, maybe the american version does 
have something to say on the subject <g>

storm

-----Original Message-----
From:	Sara Ludwig [SMTP:sara.ludwig at telia.com]
Sent:	Saturday, December 16, 2000 9:31 AM
To:	HPforGrownups at egroups.com
Subject:	SV: [HPforGrownups] Re: Caribbean

Where in the book is Lee Jordan described as black?
catrina
stupid? European
  ----- Ursprungligt meddelande -----
  Fran: Rita Winston
  Till: HPforGrownups at egroups.com
  Skickat: den 15 december 2000 06:36
  Amne: [HPforGrownups] Re: Caribbean


  --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, wren lanier <wren at t...> wrote:
  >
  > if he's not black, that would place Lee [Jordan] in the white-boy
  > hemp-wearing stoner-deadhead-reggae crowd, (snip)
  > i kind of like imagining him with long blond, dirty dreadlocks with
  > some beads on a hemp rope around his neck under his robes, but
  > thats just my fancy.

  That's more or less how I imagined Lee when I read mention of the
  dreadlocks in Book 1. But Book 4 specifically describes him as
  black. I have often heard it said that assuming that a character
  is white when their color is not stated is an act of racism, so I
  feel properly guilty. On another hand, one of the questions on
  Ellie's Mary Sue quiz was "Is the character the same race as you?"
  Isn't that called 'writing about what you know'?


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