I have no clue how i missed this story!!! Apparently this Sunday, this white woman, Margaret Seltzer a.k.a Margaret B. Jones just got exposed James Frye style for trying to publish a memoir depicting herself as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South-Central Los Angeles as a foster child among gang-bangers, running drugs for the Bloods.Come to find out, the WHOLE thing is a freaking lie.
According to the New York Times, this homegirl is "all white and grew up in the well-to-do Sherman Oaks section of Los Angeles, in the San Fernando Valley, with her biological family. She graduated from the Campbell Hall School, a private Episcopal day school in the North Hollywood neighborhood. She has never lived with a foster family, nor did she run drugs for any gang members. "
Damn Maggie...
Ironically, before being exposed as a fraud, her book, 'Love and Consequences' was receiving resounding critical acclaimand on its way to the top of the bestseller list!! Over the three years she worked on the book, Miss Thang was covered in the New York Tmes at least TWICE (um, not to complain but can I even get an honorable mention in that mug?). In her most recent interview (last week) she said,"One of the first things I did once I started making drug money was to buy a burial plot.”
I am ON THE FLOOR.
Guess how she got caught? Wait on it... Her sister saw an article featuring good ole Maggie in the House & Homes section of the New York Times and RATTED her out. Her own sister?
Lord HAF Mercy!!!
But what kills me is that even after getting caught, she's still trying to justify her actions by insisting that she was simply trying to speak for those people that don't have a voice. Talking about, "she had met some gang members during a short stint she said she spent at “Grant” high school “in the Valley.”
Uh, survey says- NO.
Read this mess for yourself:
How curious? Did she share the advance with those "who didn't have a voice?" Just wondering....
ReplyDeleteROFL! I swear. But you know what? This is what the publishing industry gets for constantly buying into--and playing a high price for--stories that bolster the stereotypes of black folks. I'm sure her story about "Big Ma" taking care of her and her three drug-running, Bloods-belonging, plot-buying, gun-carrying, ho-running preteen black foster siblings was just too good to pass by... always is, huh?
ReplyDeleteNYT is obviously run by a group of drunk and high apes at this point because you'd think after both James Frey and JT Leroy, they'd do a little fact-checking when they hear about hard-knock life books by young white kids. I'm just saying. Oh and if your editor was related to an editor at NYT, you'd be getting written up in there left, right and center too.
ReplyDeleteThe publisher knew exactly what they were doing though -Riverhead published Frey's A Million Little Pieces too.
And how stupid/insane is chick to be all up in nationally distributed newspapers saying she was a foster child when she has SIBLINGS. I mean, you've got to give them a cut if you want them to play along.
love and kisses from Scotland,
me