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Will Leitch Talks About That NPR Interview, and Why Only One Blog Seems to Call Him Out

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Last week Jason Whitlock noted that Deadspin's Will Leitch , in his recent book, God Save the Fan , "spends an inordinate amount of time telling prominent, successful, well-spoken African-Americans that they're not really black." Whitlock also referred to Leitch's NPR appearance some four months ago, where the same subject had come up. I'm black, hardly prominent, debatably successful, and ...

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