Posted by MariesDaughter on September 14, 2009 at 11:30pm
Sigh--I went all "Black" on my writing workshop tonight.One tires of having to explain the substructure of a story. On the other hand, it is instructive to see much how they miss. I have more or less decided that I will explain, but I am not going to denature Black culture.In science fiction, you don't stop and explain how "ray guns" work, and I am not going to stop and explain that Texas Southern is a Black school and that maybe a character described as a student there might be Black too. If you don't know, go look it up. You're more likely to get an answer to that question than how ray guns work.That's not to say that there were not things that could be fixed. But I am tired of the complaint that they didn't know that a character was Black.Tired and going to bed......
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