Bestselling author...says he was 'warned off' creating a black hero for a book [tr]

UK Daily Mail ^ | May 22, 2017 | Chris Hastings

[C19fan]

Best selling author Anthony Horowitz has revealed that he was ‘warned off’ including a black character in a new book – because it would be ‘inappropriate’ for a white writer to do so. Speaking to today’s Event magazine, Horowitz – creator of the Alex Rider spy novels – says he was ‘upset and disturbed’ when an editor told him that devising black characters could be interpreted as ‘patronising’.

[C19fan]

/src on/Burn the books of Harriett Beatrice Stowe and Mark Twain./src off/ One of the most acclaimed current English writers is a Japanese born but British raised Kazuo Ishiguro. He wrote about white English people so he needs to go too.

[Bob]

Include a black character = appropriation

Exclude a black character = racism

It’s almost as if the deck is stacked.

[GOPJ]

Newest pity party game is ‘cultural appropriation’... In human speak it means, “No one can define another culture other than liberal elites.”

[Flick Lives]

All sci-fi writers better put down their pens before their accused of appropriating ET culture.

[onedoug]

I had a great DI in the Army who was black. But I take it back because it’s inappropriate.

[Krosan]

I read the whole article and you really have to feel sorry for the guy. He is in this mess because he accidentally became a target for these race baiters and now no matter what he does there will be someone to cry some -ism.

[Gay State Conservative]

So I guess that from now on the Tuskegee Airmen must be depicted as white to avoid offense.

[Gay State Conservative]

I had a great DI in the Army who was black. But I take it back because it’s inappropriate.

You're lucky.Every DI I came in contact with,black *and* white,was filthy pig psychopath.

[FamiliarFace]

So true.

[bgill]

He should have submitted a Martian character to the editor.

[Gil4]

I had a great DI in the Army who was black. But I take it back because it’s inappropriate.

You're lucky. Every DI I came in contact with,black *and* white,was filthy pig psychopath.

My guess is "filthy pig psychopath" is a prerequisite for the job and "great DI" was an affirmative action hire who was totally unqualified. < /sarc>

[montag813]

Good...too many “Black heroes” being created these days as it is. Their piss poor ratings say it all.

[JimRed]

...an editor told him that devising black characters could be interpreted as ‘patronising’.

And a whole 'nother demographic will call him racist for failing to include any black characters in his book. No way to win if you're whitey.

[onedoug]

Don’t get me wrong. He was quite tough. But he was also fair.

[shanover]

What does this BS do for anybody of color? I believe PC and liberalism is actually meant to keep Blacks down. I wish one day they would all go “Ferguson” and “Baltimore” on liberal whites,their DNC plantations and Kingdoms and bury all socialist radical filth. Such a dream of unreality.