James Patterson says white writers aren’t getting work due to ‘racism’

GURPS

GURPS

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Writers who look like James Patterson are having a tough go of it, the 75-year-old author has claimed.

Speaking to the Sunday Times this weekend, the crime novelist said that “white older male writers” aren’t getting hired for “writing gigs in film, theatre, TV or publishing” right now — claiming the phenomenon is “just another form of racism.”

“What’s that all about? Can you get a job? Yes. Is it harder? Yes. It’s even harder for older writers. You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males,” he insisted.

Patterson has sold more than 450 million books across 20 or so titles during his nearly 30-year career — most notably, the neo-noir book series following Detective Alex Cross, later played by actor Morgan Freeman in 1997’s “Kiss the Girls” and its 2001 sequel, “Along Came a Spider.”



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James Patterson says white writers aren’t getting work due to ‘racism’

The 75-year-old novelist has has sold more than 450 million books across 20 or so titles during his nearly 30-year career.
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Hijinx

Hijinx

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I have read most of Patterson's books and have yet to understand why most of them are of a black Alex Cross or a woman detective. Patterson is neither black nor a woman and yet his favorite characters are.

His books are entertainment and mostly follow the lines of other mysteries, but yet he uses race and gender in them when any race or Gender would be the same plot.
He seems to get writers to write books for him and then use his name on them to help sales, like a lot of other writers do. They put their name on top and the name of some other writer at the bottom, and we are supposed to believe he wrote the book. A lot of writers do this when they run out of ideas.

IMO Patterson uses race and gender to sell books. Isn't that a form of racism?
 
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