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Outside of the fact that I agree white writers shouldn& #39;t be writing books from the perspective of POC because the shitty reality is that there& #39;s a limited amount of spaces for POC books and those should go to the authors of color...it& #39;s also okay to just admit you CAN& #39;T.
I& #39;m white and didn& #39;t have to think about race for most of my life. No amount of having non-white friends or reading books by POC or fighting white supremacy will magically mean I have the experience and range to write about the experience of being a person of color.
I just don& #39;t. I& #39;m super aware that even though I& #39;ve been learning and working, I still have a really 101-level understanding of race and how it interacts with all the intersections of someone& #39;s life. I can& #39;t write those stories. And that& #39;s okay. I& #39;m not needed there.
My voice isn& #39;t needed in that arena even a little a bit. The well-meaning but likely shallow version I could attempt to tell of those stories isn& #39;t needed. What& #39;s needed is for me to read them and boost them.
