@kalynnbayron, a Black Goddess addresses non Black writers:

The Black characters you invented and put in your story shouldn’t be the first or only Black [People] you care about. Let’s start there.

I see people asking, in

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Tolkien lived in Africa as a child and yet he wrote the epic fantasy Lord of the Rings where all dark skinned peoples are on the side of evil.

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Obi-Wan Kenobi S01E03 released in 2022

The Path is their version of the Underground Railroad.

Surely its brief inclusion in this episode supports the idea believed by many white racists that the underground railroad and the transatlantic slave trade etc were fantasies.

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