Rather than complain, rather than brainwash a child, write a book yourself.
I never cared whether the main character in a good book was Chinese, or Indian (”Native American” as the freaks put it these days), or sub-continent Indian, or black, or green, or even white. I didn’t care if the main character was male or female. The characters I identified were the ones who did brave or exciting things that I wasn’t doing and who thought like I do, not the ones who matched on something peripheral like skin color or genitals.
As a child, I didn’t want to hear about a character’s genitalia in a story, and that still hasn’t changed. Fictional sex is boring. As for skin color, I have always been disgusted by those who obsess over melanin, whether they are white supremacist racists or #BlackLivesMatter racists.
So we good hatin’ rap and hip hop, right?
Oh FFS! The whole point to writing a book is to allow the reader to live vicariously through the characters therein. Why are all these special snowflakes ruining everything great about life?
“”All of the books that I was reading had white boys and dogs as the main character, and I was pretty sick of it,” “
Then imagine that they are NOT, dumbass.
I’ve read books where the lead was a FEMALE. Didnt hurt me at all.
So according to these lefties logic white kids should not be subjected to any book where the hero isn’t white? I suppose someone better tell the schools because I was made to read a number of books specifically because the author and/or main characters had a “diverse” skin color.
Kids should also learn to read books like critics of literature read books.
Chet Morton was my favorite Hardy boy.
I don’t buy the premise...
but it is pretty dumb to day, ‘kids want to read about people that look like them’, and then tell authors to write more books about minorities. If that was true, why would authors want to limit their audience? Clearly the way to sell more books would be to wrote majority protagonists.
Not that I buy the premise anyway. Leftists have been screaming for more diversity in fiction for years but what they mean by ‘diversity’ is narrowly defined categories of pigment and gender. They don’t want any diversity of ideas.
Perhaps Dwayne Johnson is the highest paid? I don’t know.
I heard that Chris Evans was the most efficiently paid (return on investment).