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The Guardian reports on a new study which has found that
The world of speculative fiction publishing is plagued by "structural, institutional, personal, universal" racism, according to a new report that found less than 2% of more than 2,000 SF stories published last year were by black writers.
The report, published by the magazine Fireside Fiction, states that just 38 of the 2,039 stories published in 63 magazines in 2015 were by black writers. With the bulk of the industry based in the US, more than half of all speculative fiction publications the report considered did not publish a single original story by a black author. "The probability that it is random chance that only 1.96% of published writers are black in a country where 13.2% of the population is black is 0.00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000321%," says the report.
The editor of Fireside Fiction goes on to say...
"Fiction, we have a problem. We all know this. We do. We don't need numbers to see that, like everywhere in our society, marginalisation of black people is still a huge problem in publishing ... The entire system is built to benefit whiteness – and to ignore that is to bury your head in the flaming garbage heap of history."
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @02:39AM
My suspicion is that the readers don't know
And my suspicion is that Francis doesn't know. . . . But again that hasn't stopped the sharing of wild speculations by an Anti-social Injustice Quibbler!!!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @03:02AM
My suspicion is that Khallow is still butthurt for being called out.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 13 2016, @04:32AM
My suspicion is that Khallow is still butthurt for being called out.
Wow! Totally amazing! My suspicion was that butthurt is khallow! But then, I also suspected that the Might Buzztard was a sockpuppet for jmorris. But I don't now, so now my suspicion is that I am Francis!
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by Azuma Hazuki on Saturday August 13 2016, @06:32AM
Uzzard and J-Mo can't be the same person. I suspect Mr. Morris is actually mentally ill, whereas The Shitey Uzzard is just an asshole who peaked in junior high; lots of that kind around. There are enough differences in their diction, sentence length, etc. that if they ARE the same person we're dealing with a well-trained method actor.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...