I guess I’m confused as to what you want people to take away from the whole race debacle. Were you baiting people? Reasonable people aren’t going to take away anything positive from it.

I mean, when am I not baiting people, really?

All this is really more self-centered than anything else. I don’t think anyone is going to have much to take away from it other than me. I like antagonism. It forces me to think around my beliefs, and see where the weakest ones are, and see new solutions. I mean, that excerpt I posted was racist, point taken. I do need to find more ways to include PoC characters in my stories, and I’d like to do it in a way which doesn’t feel like I’m simply stuffing them in for diversity’s sake, because that’s terrible. 

I’m hardly perfect, I can admit that. But I’d like to be a better writer, and a better person at the end of the day.