Yes but the Green Mile is a period piece as much as it is Science Fiction. I'm not saying all black people were uneducated in the 30's and 40's, but it was somewhat commonplace in the south where an educated negro was a dangerous negro. I believe the Green Mile took place in the south, this is not to say John Coffee…

Magical Negro? Funny you should use that term. The L.A. Times once referred to Obama as a magical negro, although that term has now been attributed to Rush Limbaugh, it started in the very liberal L.A. Times. The trope has been around for a long time, but you calling King racist makes me wonder if you'd apply the…

Loved the book, I read it once a year, stayed up until it was released by Hulu at 12:01 a.m. My problem is the same critique the author of the article has, Jake doesn't have enough motivation to travel back to the past in the show. The book explains this fairly well, Jake was having an emotional crisis in which he…