by Deborah Adekoya
Personally, I feel like race doesn’t matter when writing a narrative based on racism. It’s the same way you can have any type of teacher teach about racism or colonization. As long as the writer or teacher is respectable and doesn’t cross the line as someone whose ancestors did wrong most especially. I believe Chopin was very respectful in her delivery, we see on pages 1- 3 that Chopin utilizes the word “negros.” Which is risky but still respectful as it wasn’t the actual N-word. At the same time, I wonder why Chopin decides to write stories about racism, not just that but she also made the black character the antagonist and the white character the one we feel sorry for. This isn’t something that usually occurs in a racism narrative.
