Noughts & Crosses author hits back at race-bait claims – The Guardian, Theguardian.com
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The author of Noughts & Crosses has defended her story against allegations that she is feeding racial division in Britain.
Malorie Blackman took to Twitter to explain her position this weekend in the wake of some negative reaction to Thursday evening’s broadcast of the first of six episodes of a new BBC dramatisation of her novel for young adults.
Her book examines life in an alternative Britain where black people dominate national life and have most of the money, the imagined legacy of an African colonial powerbase in “Albion”.
Writing in the Daily Mail , Calvin Robinson argued that “it was less a TV show than a political statement”. He added: “In places, at its worst, Noughts & Crosses stoops to naked race-baiting, stirring up antipathy under the pretence of attacking racist attitudes.”
Robinson’s comments have been supported by online commentators and on Saturday Blackman responded. “To those accusing me of being anti-white or stating I must hate white people to create such a story as Noughts & Crosses , I ‘m not even going to dignify your absurd nonsense with a response. Go take a seat waaaay over there in the cold, dark and bitter haters ’corner,” she wrote.
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