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I am a 2nd year student in Illustration. My name is Patricia Lettis, no nicknames have really stuck. Blogger is a new site for me. This is a test of the site.
Driverse Position, Week of Nov. 13
Kindred by Octavia Butler reminds me of several themes that I have seen in media and news lately. The civil war statues and the 23 and Me ancestry test. It’s about Romanizing the south and your family. The people who are trying to keep the statues of the general and are not going to openly admit that they are racist (Side note, many of the statues were literally installed by the KKK. How can you say they are not racist?) People with the DNA test are finding out that they are 3 percent black or Indigenous and believe that it is some secret romantic past but, it was not. Life is not a Disney movie. You have to be honest about the past and what happened in your family. You don’t have to celebrate people or justify them just because you are related to them. ...
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