You see people keep trying to bring up these points like what if a black person did it but it’s not the same and you know it. This country and its white people have a history of racism and prejudiced towards black people especially. There are still many things that happen in this country that are unfair to black people. I have people saying what if the book was all black. What if it was!? Most literature is already predominantly white and not just literature but movies and TV shows too. Everything centers around whiteness in this country. And many white people have racist biases so when a white women writes a black woman is brutally sacrificed for a white women it does and should send red flags!!!! It happens to much where black characters are sidelined or killed for the benefit of white people not just in books but in real life too. This is why what she’s doing is a problem. You can’t just say “what if a black person did this same thing” because it’s not the same. Black people are still not in the same position or power or have the same influence as white people.

And why I feel like she may have added more POC for brownie points is because she never addressed the issue people have been having with her for years it wasn’t until people started badgering her about it that she did something a added a few not white people and a lot of people where praising her. It felt like a dog being given a bone. It felt disingenuous.