Black Characters Rant [completed until further notice]

1. Black Male Characters

YOU KNOW WHAT I HATE THE MOST. Is when others over sexualise black male characters or overdo black male characters because they think it masculates them more or that's how a black boy should act. Why can't they be soft? Why can't they be innocent? Why can't there be just boys who aren't pressured and not using girls/women for their own selfish uses. Are people so unoriginal. I hate the fact that this happens, that people enjoy this and read these books.

I do, do you?

And that's the question, I believe there's a limit to these books, instead black boys are made to feel that they have to be masculine and when they stop - it's like the universe falls apart and they suddenly become women. Like horrible much! I just hate that this happens, I hate that black characters have to go through this everyday of their fictional life's. The prejudice that writers give them, even the authors that I love. I see them do it and it's shit.

Some of them think that the book is diverse and I read the comment section and they're like, it's so diverse, diversity is lit, I love this black character. And I feel like this shouldn't be a thing of accessory. It should be an necessity in every genre of book that is published. They shouldn't have this problem of having one black character and everyone is calling the book diverse.

That shit crazy.

A supporter talked about doing 7 typical urban male characters but this campaign doesn't cast out urban books, we want more than urban books. I don't know if we've made that clear. We love urban writers because they are the only ones that are promoting black characters, positive, loving black male characters that we need in our lives.

I rate you urban writers!

Yeah, I'm not going to talk about typical black male characters because that's hating another persons creation, in all genres there is a stereotype. That character is always conformed in, like blonde cheerleaders, they must be mean and they must be the school sexiest until a new girl comes in and ruins shit.

Kind of out of topic.

But yeah, there's sterotypes and that sucks. We got to make sure that when we're writing black characters we have to know that these characters effect the black community. This is what people can believe to be real even though it's not. It's sad but true. Be liberated and make sure that you don't conform the black male characters fictional life.