…it's because white agents send white books to white publishers & dismiss BAME writers' works as "too ethnic" to appeal to a wider audience, thus not lucrative. Absolutely think if agent/editor/publisher had to judge without seeing the author or their name, this would change.
If this is how the individual feels, then it is not the contest that needs to change rules and become an agent of exclusion, it is the industry that needs the change. Here is the idiocracy way to solve the problem:
- The government should make a new law that no agents shall work with an individual of their race, color, sex, or native homeland.
- That no publisher shall accept for publication a piece of work from an individual of the company owners race, color, sex, or native homeland.
- No editor shall work for an individual of their race, color, sex, or native homeland.
Stupidity runs rampant in government. Not a serious law proposal, but I can see that happening sometime in the future. Now an uninformed question - "What is a BAME"?
Haha! I can see that happening before anything that really addresses the issue comes about.
BAME is explained in one of the links in the post.
Thanks, one day we may be able to just go back to where she is a she, and he is a he. It would be nice to not judge a person based on all the social and national crap poured into peoples heads, but I doubt that day is any where near close at hand.
I'd like to get to a place where a person can be whatever they want to be - as long as it makes them happy - and not have to worry about making sure another person isn't offended.