A review by mayastone
Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond by Bill Campbell, Edward Austin Hall

Did not finish book. Stopped at 3%.

From the first story I left my heart in Skaftafell by Victor Lavalle

By the way, this whole time let’s not talk about the Africans. They had no allegiance to me of course. Why should they? The white folks weren’t hugging each other in Caucasian familyhood—still fuck those Africans, and I mean that from the bottom of my soul. In Reykjavik I went bonkers trying to get a little love from any one of them. Nothing. Not even the faintest soul-brother nod. May they all enjoy another hundred years of despotic rule.

Yeah...if I wanted to read xenophobic crap like this I'd spend more time on social media.  I'm so disappointed, Lavalle was an author I had planned to read more from.  Decided to drop the collection right there.  If stuff like this can be allowed to pass in a book celebrating afrofuturism I'll pass.  I read AfroSF last year and not a single story disparaged black Americans.  Well, removing Lavalle from my TBR and leaving this collection unread.