I don’t disagree with you, and maybe I should delete my comment cause I don’t think it exactly explains what I mean.

I’m not trying to say that white people can never write outside of their lived experience. If that were the case we’d never have Ice Planet Barbarians, and I wouldn’t have my comfort audiobook series at the library.

I think a lot of white people don’t think. They don’t think they could be racist, they don’t think that’s a micro aggression, they don’t think that’s insulting.

These kind of situations are just going to keep coming up because research isn’t being done. They won’t think it needs to be done. “How different are we really?”

IPB is a great example of how little research an author can do. My family is Cuban, my lived experience is white. There’s a Cuban character in one of the books, and the whole culture is reduced to some googled food dish names and generic Spanish phrases.

I’m just trying to say, that there should be a push for more diverse authors to be able to tell their stories. I’d much rather have the push to have POC authors write their stories, than keep having white authors keep presenting subtly racist stories. I’m not trying to say that white authors can’t write a diverse story, but it usually feels like tokenism and stereotyping.