[cfrizz]

As an AA, when I went into book stores I would go to the romance section to look at romance books, I would read the back cover, and if it interested me I got it. Yes every book I got was pretty much about white women, but it would never have occurred to me to look for an AA romance section off in another part of the store.

I don't believe I conciously do anything based color, that is not how I was raised, and quite frankly way too limiting for me. I have cousins who are all black everything, and are always specifying if they have a white friend...blah, blah. blah. I couldn't care less.

We are all stuck on this planet together, there shouldn't be any profiling going on in this day and age.

Nor do I care about anyone's orientation. I've got gay books, lesbian books, straight books, alien books, vampire and were-everything books.

If I happen to get a romance written by an AA writer great, the book must meet the same requirement as one written by a white writer. It MUST be a good book by MY standards. If it isn't it will be put aside just like all the others that I deem not good.

But then again, since I don't go looking to see what color the writer is, I wouldn't know/care.

But I do agree if it is a romance story, then it belongs in the romance section no matter what color the writer is.