/lit/ - Literature

>>22287811
>1. That was never the case.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/11/opinion/culture/diversity-publishing-industry.html
this is recent, in a relativley progressive time in a relatively progressive country.
>There’s a correlation between the number of people of color who work in publishing and the number of books that are published by authors of color,” said Tracy Sherrod, the editorial director of Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins that is focused on Black literature.

That correlation is visible in our data, exemplified by Toni Morrison’s career as an editor at Random House from 1967 to 1983. Random House’s first female Black editor, Ms. Morrison championed writers such as Toni Cade Bambara, Henry Dumas and Gayl Jones. During her tenure, 3.3 percent of the 806 books published by Random House in our data were written by Black authors.

The number of Black authors dropped sharply at Random House after Ms. Morrison left. Of the 512 books published by Random House between 1984 and 1990 in our data, just two were written by Black authors: Ms. Morrison’s “Beloved” (through Knopf, which was owned by Random House) and “Sarah Phillips,” by Andrea Lee.

2. They are intentionally excluding white men/people, who founded the West in every sense.
except they aren't, they simply are looking for more people who aren't white to attract more readers.
you see any sort of difference as an attack on white people, you believe in white people's cultural superiority and thus feel entitled to greater opportunities, when the opportunities are partially evened out you label it anti-white.
>The entire philosophy that has informed or rather constructed your moral framework (which you probably accepted without question) came directly from straight White Christian society, directed by White Christian males.

and why would i care? i am a christian, i do not hate white peopple, in fact i love "the west" and enjoy european culure. i am not anti white s you claim, but you think i am because i see things differently from you. consider that maybe people aren't out to get you, and that maybe the bigger issue is with a broader system making workers and artist poor and miserable, not minorities just trying to get a job like you.