There is much more to a person than their skin color.
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Replying to @prageru
agreed, but being black in America is a difficult thing for a white person to understand, let alone express.
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Replying to @DrewLudwig
It certainly can be, but assuming only black people can write black characters, and white people can write white characters is unwise.
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Replying to @prageru
its not about characters in general. This story is about a black protagonist. A main character. I doubt he has the knowledge to do that.
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Replying to @DrewLudwig
It's the job of a fiction writer to do write characters with traits and experiences that they themselves don't have.
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Replying to @prageru
and yet they have to write from their experience. Black people have experiences that few (if any) white people have.
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Replying to @DrewLudwig
Some do, some don't. Black people are not a monolith, neither are white people.
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Replying to @prageru
a lot of white people have written a lot of stories for a long time. Just tell me one that wrote a black protagonist well.
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There are many, in many mediums. Previous comment already answered this question.
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Replying to @DrewLudwig
No. Saying the difference between black and white is far smaller than difference between hunchback and non-hunchback.
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