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I just saw this foolishness for myself and I am appalled @JenniferBeckst1 at your implication that I don't work on my craft and that must be I haven't finaled in the RITA yet. Your statement about there being no racism in RWA is flat out wrong. Have you read nothing of what 1/?
Have been saying for the time that you have followed me on Twitter? Have my experiences of being shut out of the CBA world in publishing meant so little to you that you could say such horrible things about Black women writers? When you know what I have gone through? 2/?
You have been witness to my triumphs and awards in other arenas. You have seen that I have gotten contracts and agents. Yet you can say shady words where you can believe that I or someone who looks like me aren't worthy of being a finalist in the RITAs? 3/?
I have told you I entered the contest, and you are asking questions about numbers of people? Is this Christian? Or is it your version of Christian? I am sorely, sadly disappointed in what you have posted. I have other words to say about what I truly feel about the way that 4/?
the CBA has appropriated the life stories and struggles of the Amish people in order to avoid the entire diversity argument, but I will save those for another time. We clearly cannot be acquaintances or friends, if we ever were, if you have held me in this kind of regard. 5/?
To me, your words have shown me that you are part of the problem, yes, the problem that RWA has with racism. For this reason alone, your designation as a Rita finalist this year is, indeed, entirely fitting. Fin
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