I was struggling with my novel. [You know, everyone has at least one novel in them!] So I enlisted a very good friend who is a published author. I still esteem her very much. But: she said: you have no black characters!
I said, how do you know I don't have any black characters? Even I don't know that none of them is black!
She wanted a description of one character I already had, to have dread-locks and speak in jibe just to prove he was a black character.
WUT??! Not all black people have dreadlocks and speak in jibe. SHEESH!
I hope I live long enough to finish it . . . But really, I am better at research and writing non-fiction . . .
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I was struggling with my novel. [You know, everyone has at least one novel in them!] So I enlisted a very good friend who is a published author. I still esteem her very much. But: she said: you have no black characters!
I said, how do you know I don't have any black characters? Even I don't know that none of them is black!
She wanted a description of one character I already had, to have dread-locks and speak in jibe just to prove he was a black character.
WUT??! Not all black people have dreadlocks and speak in jibe. SHEESH!
I hope I live long enough to finish it . . . But really, I am better at research and writing non-fiction . . .
Jiveman1: Sheeeet, man, that honkey mus' be messin' my old lady got to be runnin' col' upsihd down his head!
Subtitle: GOLLY, THAT WHITE FELLOW SHOULD STAY AWAY FROM MY WIFE OR I WILL PUNCH HIM.
Jiveman2: Hey Holm, I can dig it! You know he ain't gonna lay no mo' big rap upon you man!
Subtitle: YES, HE IS WRONG FOR DOING THAT.
Jiveman1: I say hey sky, s'other say I won say I pray to J I get the same ol' same ol.
Subtitle: I KNEW A MAN IN A SIMILAR PREDICAMENT, AND HE ENDED UP BEING SORRY.
Jiveman2: Knock yourself a pro slick. Gray matter back got perform' us' down I take TCBin, man'.
Subtitle: DON'T BE NAIVE ARTHUR. EACH OF US FACES A CLEAR MORAL CHOICE.
Jiveman1: You know wha' they say: See a broad to get that bodiac lay'er down an' smack 'em yack 'em.
Subtitle: EARLY TO BED, EARLY TO RISE, MAKES A MAN HEALTHY, WEALTHY AND WISE.
Together: Col' got to be! Yo!
Subtitle: HOW TRUE!
Together: Sheeeeeeet!
Subtitle: GOLLY.
They tried to take Mark Twain out of school for using black dialogue.
Anyone can speak jive https://youtu.be/yzIcec_bQss?si=qh67yv_a-xiETxbM
I seem to remember that scene!