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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also, since Quasimodo is barely verbal, we have NO IDEA if he characterized the experience of a barely verbal person well.
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Question is: Can an author write a character with traits different from their own? Answer is Yes.
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then it should have been easy for SOME white author to write a black character well. and ...
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ablism and racism are quite different. Being a hunchback isn't, for example, a generational thing.
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it may surprise you (and I can't believe that this hasn't come up) that people with scoliosis don't like being called "hunchbacks"
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