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Post by Mag2024 on Nov 9, 2022 13:21:51 GMT
Rather, publish a book about anything and have black protagonists.
Populate the industry with books of people of all colours. This is normal. The world consists of all people, not just one group. Infiltrate, populate, represent.
Good luck.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Nov 9, 2022 23:22:20 GMT
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Post by Mag2024 on Nov 10, 2022 0:26:41 GMT
You're right. I was thinking of children's books. If you're writing non-fiction, by all means.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Nov 10, 2022 14:22:24 GMT
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Post by potet on Nov 10, 2022 20:19:49 GMT
Yes, you can pose as a Black person, and write as-if stories whose characters and situations are Africans, but before you start this, you'll have to carefully study what you are writing about, otherwise you might make mistakes that will irritate Africans, and will expose you as a nincompoop.
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Nov 11, 2022 0:47:49 GMT
I used to rarely see coloured people. The little village where I grew up there were none. The few places I have lived, they were rare. I may have passed them in the streets occasionally. I have never worked anywhere where any worked. I have never actually known any personally, not through choice, I never knew any. When I am writing fiction it never really occurs to me that some of the characters may be, or could be, black, or even just 'coloured'. Although I suppose some of the foreign people in my stories could be, it's never actually mentioned because it's not relevant, and that's perhaps the main point. There's a yellow ET, though, and a golden ET girl though! (I almost said alien, but I don't want that to be misconstrued simply as an immigrant. They are actually EU or ED. ) What puzzles me is that nowadays anyone that may have had negro ancestors is considered to be black, even when they just look as if they have a bit of a tan. That's not right is it? It's even spreading to ethnic minorities that are not 100% white. Some are mistaking the PC word, 'coloured', as being black. Someone once thought, and even called me, a 'Paki' because I have a 'swarthy' complexion. Possibly because in the deep and distant past an ancestor was apparently Spanish according to my surname! But I think my English DNA goes back many hundreds of years as far as I know. Then again, one of my grandads was Irish. I may be an onion.
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Post by potet on Nov 11, 2022 12:57:35 GMT
Still me wrote: "What puzzles me is that nowadays anyone that may have had negro ancestors is considered to be black, even when they just look as if they have a bit of a tan. That's not right is it?" I remember a random meeting in London in the 20th century with West Indians. Some were coffee, some where milk, some were coffee-and-milk. I was surprised to learn from the white ones that they were categorized as "Blacks".
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Post by And Kevin 2024 on Nov 16, 2022 0:21:28 GMT
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