Chopin

I feel like the race of the author does matter especially coming from Kate Chopin who was a white woman living in the 1890s when racism was pretty bad. She has probably never dealt with racism and doesn’t know first hand what it feels like to go what African Americans go through with racism. I feel that the story would be more credible coming from an author who has went through racism and knows what it feels like. She might talk to people who go through racism and try to understand but she would never really know how it feels first hand because she is white. I feel that it is important that whenever we do get a narrative dealing with racism and oppression that we get it from someone that knows what its like to go through it because that way it would be more honest and authentic.