Yeah. If someone is less inclined or afraid to write & publish faily works...I don't see how that is a *problem*. Or censorship for that matter (because that ALWAYS comes up, as if minority groups had the power to actually censor the privileged). Write something else then! I don't know why it's so necessary to hold on to problematic/privileged views (like nice white women writers who won't give up the use of the word 'exotic' to describe people because...they are being complimentary! and want to be exotic themselves! or something).

I saw a post on DW's network that said they had a completely different reading of HoD (than Deepa or Achebe), which is fair enough I guess, but then s/he linked to two critiques of Chinua Achebe's criticisms of HoD that were written by white people who didn't think the racism was as bad as Achebe wrote to back up his/her own argument (I only got through the opening arguments before trashing the PDF files). I didn't respond, but in my head I was wondering if the person didn't get the basic(?) concept of why Achebe might have a different reaction to HoD than two white people. (And why, regarding race/racism, I think I'd rather trust Achebe's words.)