Jeff Rivera, the author of the novel Forever my Lady and the founder of Gumbowriters.com, has scored a sweet deal as a new blogger for book industry Web source GalleyCat.
Mr. Rivera's blog is called People of Color.
As usual, Gomez has mixed feeling about all of this. Gomez thinks there are no transparent people, and so includes "white" people in the "of color" category. Gomez also thinks the term "of color" is ridiculous when applied to white Latinos, who get to employ all the same racist stuff in Latin America that the see-through people do here.
Gomez would like to see the day when book industry Web sites - and indeed, book store shelves - stop segregating authors by skin tone, presuming culture and genre to be related to melanin. Gomez does not fault Mr. Rivera for the flawed paradigm in which we all toil, though we do feel a heavy sadness about it for reasons far too complex to list here.
And yet, Gomez is glad the formerly homeless Mr. Rivera is there, because he will probably feature writers everyone else at Galleycat say fit to ignore for their not having been...(un)colored as a new coloring book.
Gomez has a headache. Gomez need to take a pill.
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