Allow me to translate this pile of racist horseshit:
When writers of colour complain about the lack of opportunities available to them, they’re told that maybe they need to write better books – a good read is a good read. And, it follows, that if a book should only be judged on its literary merit then there is no need for a prize that exclusively commends writers of colour.
But I would argue that if books are purely judged on literary merit, then why have the Baileys prize for women? Or the Polari first book prize to celebrate the LGBT experience in the UK? These prizes exist because we know literary tastes are not neutral, and an imbalanced society affects what is published, valued and rewarded.
My book is a pile of utter unreadable shite. Please give me a prize ‘cos I iz black.
What indeed of the many prizes won by merit?
Is that not discrimination against those as thick as pigshit?
Could we look forward to an award for this week’s supreme moron?
Don’t they have a ‘Darwin’ award for people like that? Or is it the Ig-nobel award?
‘People of colour’.
What the fuck is that supposed to mean? Does it mean ‘black’? Or are brown people also ‘people of colour’? Maybe they’re ‘people of partial colour’. What is wrong with these people? And what of us whiteys? Are we ‘people not of colour’? Christ, if I started referring to my wife as a ‘person of colour’, or ‘person of partial colour’, she’d think I was fucking bonkers.
What utter shite.
I think ‘people of colour’ is a racist phrase because it not only excludes Caucasians, but Indians, Filipinos, Chinese, Koreans and Japanese to mention but five major ethnic groups. Don’t they count in the International victimhood stakes?
Oh wait, they don’t need separate prizes because they can already compete on a level playing field.
I boycott the MOBOs because there ain’t enough whites in it…
There be MOBOs, where be the MOWOs? Oh, sorry, that would be racist . . .
Like me living in Africa and complaining there aren’t enough prizes for Whitey.
Black books matter.
Especially when starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig.
Regardless of ethnicity, you should be rewarded for quality. If we have to lower the bar, then rewards become meaningless; regardless of ethnicity.