Truth is… I have ZERO tolerance for using slurs in nonfiction in order to demonstrate something occurred in the past. As someone who has written a memoir, I’m aware that some words and actions that may have been acceptable back when aren’t now, and as a writer, how I approach that is a CHOICE. In
Voices Carry
, I do write about a white friend I had as a child whose mother married a man of color. She was not biracial, but her siblings were. Being the early 80’s in Northern Florida, t...
Published on September 03, 2024 10:00