(All we got to do is look at who is on the best seller list, who is getting awards, who is getting published in the periodicals.
It is not about "affirmative action". It is about his readers don't want black characters no matter how good it is. I have issued this challenge before. If it is not about race, let all sci fi writers for the next year write only stories featuring black main characters. They don't even have to talk look or act black--whatever that is. Just describe them as black and use the same plots, situations and dialogs they were going to use anyway. I will not hold my breath. --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, Club Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If we are in denial nothing will change. It is a question of quality. Yes, publisher want to make money and that rules out affirmative action. Your work has to be very good. Period. That is the ticket. I like affirmative action, but here this is different. To publish, we can not expect people to buy lesser stuff. > j > > Chris Hayden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ( > > --- In SciFiNoir_Lit@yahoogroups.com, "Jesse Miller" > <aaaclub_services@> wrote: > > > > The idea that putting black characters in a story blocks > publication > > is distressing to me becasue this is NOT true. > > (It is true. It has been stated time and again by published black > writers and authors. The reason why we can get no where on this is > because we keep denying this. > > It is true. Talk to some white editors or publishers or agents who > will speak truthfully off the record to you on this subject. > > Anybody got that url to the late John Faucette's Black Science > Fiction where he is flat out told by the editor he can't sell a book > with black characters. > > Look at what happened to Milestone comics. Look at what happens to > most black tv shows and movies that are not comedies. > > Will Smith? Look at the boxoffice of the movies he did where he was > alone and the ones where he was buddied up with white actors. > > I think the problem is that when we say this people assume that we > think white sci fi fans are racist and they can't be because they are > all a bunch of jolly good folks, aren't they? > > It ain't about that at all. > > It's all about dollars and cents. Most fans of SF are white. They > are uninterested in stories with black characters. Doesn't make them > racist. They just aren't turned on. > > I never watched an episode of Seinfeld or Friends. Do I hate white > people? No. There was nothing on those shows that would make me > watch them. > > The editors, agents and publishers know what a book or a movie or a > program with black characters is only going to make so much dough. > They are trying to hit home runs, not bunt to first base. > > If we cannot tell the truth about this situation nothing will ever > change. > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] >
