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Famous literary critics teach us to ask "what was the writer trying to do for him/herself by writing this work?"

My point is that in writing you can't escape leaning into a narrative that comports with your worldview.

or you can try, but you'll probably make a shitty work of art because you'll be trying to write just with your prefrontal cortex, lol.

So, we know that white people and black people, having different experiences here in America also have different worldviews.

So, these white guys, just trying to write well, will write into their (white) understanding of the world, into their (white) experiences.

but because they just have never had the experience of being black, their POV is unlikely to fit with black experience and understanding.

And it'll be in little ways. They'll make the slaves too passive, or too violent. They'll make the slaves who talk like white people Noble.

They'll create magical negro characters who are Wise In Their Suffering. They'll overplay the slaves' Christianity, or underplay it...