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18692916 No.18692916 [Reply] [Original]

Why don't you read more POC authors?

>> No.18692917

uhhhh I've actually read one book by a black fella sweetie. Get your facts straight.

>> No.18692921

>>18692916
Please name one black author that doesn’t mention racism or alludes to it in any of their world and MAYBE I’ll check them out.

>> No.18692924

>>18692916
Blacks are the most racially narcissistic people on Earth.

>> No.18692925

I actually just checked and the last three I've read have been by POC.

>> No.18692928

>>18692921
people from over six centuries ago

>> No.18692930

>>18692916
I don't care about celebrities
I don't know the actors of the movie I'm watching
I don't know the director of the movie I'm watching
I don't know the singer of the song I'm listening to
I don't know the author of the book I'm reading
simple as

>> No.18692931

>>18692921
Post Colonial novels with no white people at all, like Wizard of the Crow by Thiongo or The Fishermen.

>> No.18692932

I think /lit/ does read the occasional black author (machado de assis chads where u at) but gets caught up in the racism/fascism meme too much. I post using it but it is just a meme on an anonymous board after all.

>> No.18692936

I have read books by black authors but I don’t read more because I don’t think reading should be about filling quotas

>> No.18692940

>>18692916
blacks aren't people
I don't read books written by dogs or cats either

>> No.18692941
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>>18692930
I will live by these words
this will be my new dogma
fuck celebrities
I welcome a new world based on merits alone

>> No.18692942
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Great book by black caribbean stalinist and soccer star. unironically supports dessalines genocide of the whites

>> No.18692987

>>18692921
Charles Saunders

>> No.18693009

>>18692916
For all I know I could have read plenty and not know about it. I don't read novels according to what the author looks like and neither should you

>> No.18693027

>>18692916
I already read Russian and Japanese authors.

>> No.18693109

>>18692921
Machado de Assis.
Born and raised in the country with the greatest number of black people outside of Africa, and the last to abolish slavery.
All of the major characters in his novels were white and he didn't write about racism at all.
The brazilian equivalent of BLM people just absolutely ignore him, because he doesn't fit their agenda, it's hilarious.

>> No.18693128

>>18693109
>Bloom considers him the greatest black writer in Western literature

Racist bros... We got too cocky

>> No.18693132

Recommend me good horror and/or occult lit by some blacks and I’ll check it out.

>> No.18693136

>>18692916
The same reason I don't read books written by women.

>> No.18693169

I read plenty of darkies
Homer
Dante
Cervantes

>> No.18693177

>>18692916
If I read Borges does that count as diversity because he is Latin American?

Or is he considered white because he is from Argentina?

>> No.18693183

>>18692916
Do you mean actual POC or do you just want us to read books from africans/ black americans? I read plenty of things from middle east

>> No.18693199

>>18692916
My profound racism makes me unable to enjoy the niggerscribbles, I am gomenasai

>> No.18693481

>>18693109
>BLM people just absolutely ignore him, because he doesn't fit their agenda, it's hilarious.
>All of the major characters in his novels were white and he didn't write about racism at all.
If he ignored the racism back then, what worth could he possible have for people facing racism today? Also is he even considered to be Black to Black Brazilians?

>> No.18693489

>>18692916
Why don't POC authors write better books?

>> No.18693514

>>18692932
There's no incentive for white people to read black authors unless they are unironic cucks because 99% of the time the book is going to be about race and you aren't allowed to have a positive racial opinion of whites so the conversation is going to be by definition one-sided. It's boring and formulaic.
>>18692942
It's weird how blacks always celebrate the death to whitey Haitian revolution but then don't even know about the time the Dominican Republic genocided Haitians for being nigs lol. It's like damn bro, I thought you were into Haitian history.

>> No.18693529

>>18692916
Latin americans and hispanics ain't white, right? I've read more of them than you have books you dumb niglet.

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>>18692916
why would I read a Piece-Of-Crap book?

>> No.18693616

>>18692916
I might, I pay zero attention to the author of whatever book I pick up and just read it. Sometimes I read the entire book then find out the author was a woman or a black or something then I go "huh" and pick something else up. Black, Gay, whatever I just want to read.

>> No.18693621

>>18692921
You can't change your skin color.

>> No.18693625

>>18693616
You sound like a brain dead faggot.

>> No.18693629

>>18693625
I sound like you

>> No.18693632

>>18692916
I read tons. Why, I'm reading a book by Eco right now

>> No.18693634

>>18693625
I read everything and if I enjoy what I'm reading I finish it. Echo chambers are for fools. Intelligent people read everything. Everything.

>> No.18693665

nigger fatigue

>> No.18693671

>>18693625
*breaddead

>> No.18693680

>>18692916
I read italians all the time anon

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>>18692921
Amos Tutuola
>barely literate
>write down parts of his oral tradition during boring office job
>end up creating an incredibly rich and creative interpretation of yoruba folklore
>send it up to some random evangelical publisher in the UK
>theyre so impressed they send it to a real publisher and he instantly gets published
>makes nigerian intellectuals seethe because his yoruba-infused english isnt cucked by UK grammar schools
>doesnt care about fame or money and only writes for fun, makes his actual living as a small farmer
>still one of the most influential nigerian writers

>> No.18694320

>>18692930
>>18692941
>I don't care about celebrities
>I don't know the actors of the movie I'm watching
>I don't know the director of the movie I'm watching
>I don't know the singer of the song I'm listening to

Yes.

>I don't know the author of the book I'm reading
That's where I diverge -- I think it has to do with me preferring to read authors that are already dead, that way I am at least a little freer from the power structure that emerges when you consume someone else's media. Also, there's a difference between knowing the name of an obscure regional musician that helps you connect with friends and family by recalling a shared culture and the modern case, which is a mania towards mass-consumable vapid media without a soul, whose primary, secondary and tertiary purposes are to move money out of my pocket.