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Publishing is a dumpster fire.

A white author has written a series of fantasy books with a Black woman main character who she describes as using "bacon grease" to condition her hair, and describes her hair as looking like that of a "dead squirrel's tail." For more insane details of the thinly-veiled racism in this book:

https://atlantablackstar.com/2023/10/05/black-twitter-calls-for-the-removal-of-a-book-by-a-white-author/

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