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Velshi

move to the oil town of new london with her deeply abusive white stepfather, henry. while naomi's have siblings are able to pass as whites, and easily assimilate to their new surroundings, naomi's experiences the opposite. then she finds washed, one of the few black people in the community. he's kind, he provides solace, protection, and the kind of buoyant hope that only comes with the first love. naomi and wash our certainly star crossed lovers, and their end is even more gruesome than that of romeo and juliet. there is violence, and a rape scene. the effect is devastated, and shock. again it doesn't feel gratuitous. the violence could not exist without the pervasive racism within their texas town, and so much of the nation at the time. it could not exist without the abuse of stepfathers patriarchal need for control. perhaps the true devastation in reading this difficult scene is that the realization that something so appalling could also exist outside the pages of a book. out of darkness is told from

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Velshi

multiple points of view. alternating by chapter, so as told through the eyes of not just naomi and wash, but also from the points of view of henry the use of stepfather, and a group of deeply sexist and racist boys known as the gang. they function as a collective, a refrain of their racist and sexist songs of the town. the gang introduces the reader to the relentless objectification and harassment that naomi faces as a woman every single day. particularly, as a mexican american woman. the gangs voice is intentionally crude. one parent, and light, travis took umbrage with this particular passage from one of the gangs chapters in which the young men up the gang casually and explicitly discuss what it would be like to rape the main character naomi. this parent addressed her local school board ends the speech she made went viral for her tirade against the book. i am not going to play the clip here because this is a family shell, most of the time. this parent quoted and zeroed

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Velshi

imagination what it would be like to rape the main character. it talks about, well talks about a lot of tough subject matter. tell me about that particular thing. this mother seem to be quite taken by that and there's a concern that out of context, that makes sense but she set. it's not out of context, it's a passage in your book that is meant to be about something. >> yeah. my goal, like many out there is, is not to endorse negative behavior. sometimes we need to represented to be able to show the effects that has on people and their communities. one of the things that i didn't out of darkness was use these passages from the perspective of the game to condense the racism and misogyny that are part of what's the main character naomi has to deal with. by putting it in a pressure cooker, conciliate down,

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BBC News

golfers�* association and the national rugby team, to name a few. shejoins us from she joins us from brisbane shejoins us from brisbane now. thank you very much for being with us on bbc news. what do you make of naomi�s concerned about mental health, and how the authorities have responded to it?— responded to it? yeah, i think the fact that it's _ responded to it? yeah, i think the fact that it's reach _ responded to it? yeah, i think the fact that it's reach this _ responded to it? yeah, i think the fact that it's reach this point - fact that it's reach this point obviously means that she has been battling _ obviously means that she has been battling with us for a while, and players~ — battling with us for a while, and -la ers. .. .,. battling with us for a while, and -la ers. .. .. � battling with us for a while, and players - -— battling with us for a while, and -la ers... �* , players... rachel, i'm so sorry, we are having — players... rachel, i'm so sorry, we are having some _ players... rachel, i'm so sorry, we are having some technical- players... rachel, i'm so sorry, we| are having some technical problems with your sound. we�re getting what sounds a lawn mower behind you, so i think we will try and come back to you if that is all right in just a few moments. to stay with us. hopefully you will stay with us on bbc news as well. we meet the children who are victims of syria�s civil war. despite years of trauma we find them still hopeful for the future.

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