Melanated Tenor (@melanatedtenor.bsky.social)

And for all the people thinking. "You can't judge Tolkien by today's standards of wokeness!" Yes I can. Again, Lord of the Rings was published 1 year *after* James Baldwin's "Go Tell it on The Mountain." Baldwin wrote his book, then next year Tolkien wrote about evil dark men threatening the West

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I Am Not Your Negro | James Baldwin on the Dick Cavett Show | Netflix YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3y6xwH88kpg

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