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How to succeed as a black writer

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>Be a nigger
>write prose, or verse about how much it sucks to be a nigger
>???
>profit

When will this stop?
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>>9504769
When we wrestle the humanities back from the cultural marxist jews.
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when the fucking retarded univeristies and publishers are no longer ran by fucking retards who would rather read a black guy cause it is diverse than a white guy who writes about what it means to be a fucking human
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>>9504769
....how come no one wants to publish me then???
do i need to make a bunch of lit professor friends?
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>>9504847
Do you write about being black?
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>>9504855
....well I have black main characters
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>>9504856
Not the same thing. You need to explain how being black makes their lives impossible to live but they get by anyway despite the white man.
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>>9504769
>Be a cracker
>write prose, or verse about how much niggers suck
>???
>profit
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>>9505062
>get blacklisted by every agent ever
>Never get published
>Publicly, metaphorically drawn and quartered
>Never hold a real job
>Die alone
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>be gay
>write prose, or verse about how much you like to suck
>???
>profit
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>>9505064
Obviously you can't get a normal agent for it but there are enough conservative publishers who gobble up racist shit. Even easier if you bitch about sand niggers.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/nov/30/marlon-james-writers-of-colour-pander-white-woman-man-booker-event-brief-history-seven-killings

At a sold-out Guardian event on Friday night, James said publishers too often sought fiction that “panders to that archetype of the white woman, that long-suffering, astringent prose set in suburbia. You know, ‘older mother or wife sits down and thinks about her horrible life’.”

Women, particularly white women, make up the vast majority of regular fiction readers, purchasing two thirds of all books sold in the UK. Almost 50% of women classify themselves as avid readers, compared to 26% of men.

James said that because white women readers dominate the market, “the male editors will only accept one type of story. Everyone knows what a New Yorker story will look like. I could have been published 10 times over – I knew that there was a certain kind of prose I could have written; intense scenes that hinted, rather than explored.”

In a recent Facebook post, James wrote a response to a piece titled On Pandering by novelist Claire Vaye Watkins, in which she examined the pressure on female writers to suit male expectations of writing in order to get published.

Calling the essay “potentially game changing”, James wrote: “While she recognizes how much she was pandering to the white man, we writers of colour spend way too much time pandering to the white woman … astringent, observed, clipped, wallowing in its own middle-style prose and private ennui, porn for certain publications.
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>>9505103
/pol/ was right, white women are cancer
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>>9505103
excuse me while I go plagiarize some patricia cornwell
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>be black
>father is lawyer, mother a doctor
>get free ride to Ivy League uni because of rich parents and affirmative action
>study English for 5 years while hanging out with super rich kids all the time
>begin slam poetry career
>start slamming how hard it is to be a black man in the United States, and the daily racism you encounter
>write your first book, call it something like 'My Father's Dreams in a White America'
>explain how you are such a terrible victim of institutional racism and the terrible psychological issues that come with being oppressed
>have some black character in your book commit suicide to top it off
>publish it
>Guardian: "Truly a brave book in our times, [writer] perfectly captures the zeitgeist in Trumpian America", five stars
>New York Times: "Incredibly moving and awe inspiring. [writer] will be a voice of a lost generation in these dark times" five stars
>basically troll everyone into believing that you are underpriviliged because of race, while you were actually overprivileged because of class
These people are geniuses, man. Check out this guy for example.
http://www.clintsmithiii.com/

Why does this happen so often in America?
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>>9505146
>implying theres any other way to sell books than to make something for lit professors to jerk off to
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>>9505154
You might sell more if they're for other people to jerk off to, too.
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>>9505167
self help market is a bit saturated
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