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REVIEW: 'Sky Full of Elephants' world with no White people is designed to be uncomfortable
The Advocate ^ | September 8, 2024 | Serena Puang

Posted on 01/06/2025 9:33:54 AM PST by Angelino97

"They killed themselves. All of them. All at once,” the first words of Cebo Campbell’s debut novel, “Sky Full of Elephants,” are a haunting refrain reminiscent of a fable.

The book explores the aftermath of a genocidal event in which every White person in America wakes up, walks into the nearest body of water and drowns...

The novel follows Charlie, a wrongfully incarcerated Black man who is reunited with his 19-year-old daughter Sidney. Sidney had been raised by her White mother’s side of the family believing that she was White too. She holed up in her mansion alone for a year after losing her family, but after a note from her blonde, green-eyed aunt claiming that White people are “not all gone,” she tracks down Charlie to take her to Orange Beach, Alabama, where all the people who think of themselves as White have congregated...

As with many magical realism novels, the premise can get muddled. How “non-White” do you have to be to survive the event? What about White Latinos? Where did all the Black cops go? In this version of the world, people who think of themselves as White still exist, so should Black conservative pundits and racist Asians. How did this new world order avoid recreating all the problems of the old one?

But those willing to suspend their disbelief will see a version of utopia that doesn’t include White people, and this is radical. So often, America’s conceptualization of diversity is based in Whiteness. White people have historically held the power and the wealth in this country, and the vision for equality looks like adding other people into this picture...

Campbell dares to ask the question: What would a new, better society look like if it didn’t have any White people at all?

(Excerpt) Read more at theadvocate.com ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature
KEYWORDS: 1619project; antiwhiteracism; blackkk; blackliesmanors; blackliesmatter; blacklivesmatter; blackracism; blm; criticalracetheory; crt; racism
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To: CaptainK

I’m guessing cannibalism.


61 posted on 01/06/2025 10:51:59 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: Angelino97

ROFL!!!

The inventors of that nonsense kept their personal names, and discarded their “slave” last names. Malcolm the Tenth exemplifies that.


62 posted on 01/06/2025 10:55:24 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Angelino97

So, how long after until the airlines stop flying, power fgoes out, and food stops being delivered?


63 posted on 01/06/2025 10:57:55 AM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: Angelino97

well, when the country fell apart, the Chinese would invade and take over. No problem.


64 posted on 01/06/2025 10:58:16 AM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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Epilogue of the film, White Tiger/Lion


65 posted on 01/06/2025 11:06:47 AM PST by Gene Eric
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Satan hates Caucasians and has already convinced many to self-destruct through Wokism, abortion, and illegal immigration


66 posted on 01/06/2025 11:08:22 AM PST by Gene Eric
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To: Angelino97

What would a new, better society look like if it didn’t have any White people at all?


It would look like Africa.


67 posted on 01/06/2025 11:08:36 AM PST by CIB-173RDABN (My opinions are the result of 80 years of life, you may not like them but who cares.)
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To: CaptainK

Black utopia where mostly white die or embrace blackness.


68 posted on 01/06/2025 11:09:05 AM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: TheThirdRuffian

Sounds like planet of the apes...


69 posted on 01/06/2025 11:10:14 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: packagingguy
"“What would a new, better society look like if
it didn’t have any White people at all?”

Zimbabwe."

----> Haiti.

70 posted on 01/06/2025 11:18:14 AM PST by StormEye
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To: Tell It Right

Think of the poor skiing equipment makers


71 posted on 01/06/2025 11:38:12 AM PST by doorgunner69 (Your oath of enlistment has no expiration date)
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To: doorgunner69

I’m wondering how would the comedians at Live at the Apollo tell jokes without white people to make fun of.


72 posted on 01/06/2025 11:42:12 AM PST by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: packagingguy

Thread, won.


73 posted on 01/06/2025 11:57:48 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: Angelino97
Fantasy. The 13% that inhabit the US would be a serious trouble very quickly and there would be no recourse.
74 posted on 01/06/2025 12:07:31 PM PST by Myrddin
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To: Skwor

And the mean only tells part of the story.

With Ashkenazi Jews (to use one extreme) they are out one standard deviation from whites and Asian (more or less). Roughly 1/10 is a literal genius.

Compared to 1/1000 blacks. Or 1/10,000,000 aboriginals.

It’s a different species.


75 posted on 01/06/2025 12:12:48 PM PST by TheThirdRuffian (Orange is the new brown)
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To: Angelino97

the author makes the assumption that society would be ‘better’ but eons have proved otherwise.

The history of Africa and East Asia, where whites were eradicated through enslavement, genocide, sexual violence or harassment, challenges the ‘better’ theory. In Africa, colorism and tribal affiliation remain the rule of the day and in West Asia and SoAmerica, family name/caste/nativism remain the rule of the day. In arab lands, religious beliefs continue to be violently divisive. In early North America, tribalism governed life. Sexual exploitation was the order of the day throughout world. It’s only in white-centric countries that social acceptance and tolerance of equality of all has been achieved and only recently historically speaking.


76 posted on 01/06/2025 4:50:50 PM PST by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Angelino97

I’m reminded of “The Governor of Glave” by Keith Laumer .🤔


77 posted on 01/09/2025 8:46:58 AM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Angelino97

A world with no white people would be a disaster for POC. Good luck with that, black folk.


78 posted on 03/01/2025 4:25:47 PM PST by FrdmLvr
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