It is very self-serving and I’ll go as far to say callous about playing in the sandbox of people whose degradation and oppression you do not share. Not writing about black characters or exploring the pain of black people but rather exoticizing the struggle, the pain, the humiliations, the inhumanity of the road to freedom.
Darryl Ayo on Benjamin Marra’s Lincoln Washington. I’m not familiar with Marra’s work, but this is a thought-provoking review/critique.