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Originally Posted by cfrizz
But none of this negates the fact that the RWA has a long standing history of exclusion of minority writers in their committees, in books receiving recognition, etc. This is the important fact that is being ignored and should be addressed and rectified.
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Yes, and in hindsight I should probably have put more emphasis on that part of the issue in my first post.
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Milan wrote in the Twitter thread that SteveEisenberg quoted from:
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Originally Posted by Courtney Milan
I don’t really have answers to any of this. I feel like our narratives of understanding what is happening focus too much on the personal. Too many people are talking about whether a book is a fucking racist mess, and the problem is an industry. A country. A world.
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Please keep your focus on the industry, and the country, and the world.
I’m doing my best, but I’m a person with feet of clay and I not want to be synonymous with the principles at play here. The principles are bigger and better than me.
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I'd like to repeat something that may have gotten lost in the discussion:
The reason that Grimshaw and Davis were scrutinised is that they both work as aquiring editors at Tisdale's publishing company. In other words, they will decide if the book you send them is worth publishing there or not. This is an industry where where books by authors of color, and books with protagonists of color, are more difficult to get published than books where author and protagonists are white. It's changing, but very slowly. So when people are concerned about how racist views these specific people have, it's not just a "racist people exist" but "if these people have racist views, they can harm the careers of a lot of authors of color".