Hey Veeky Forums

Hey Veeky Forums,
I'm trying to write a black character for my book. Any recommendations?

Just write him like yourself, except make him fuck a lot of white girls.

make him wear anime shirts and play weeb games on his psp all the time

Make him poop in his pants LOL

This is something that I've been struggling with. Most of my characters don't really have faces such as so and so appearance and so and so hair color, and I personally do not care too much about my race, so I find it hard to write a character about their race and usually use names that allude to other authors or characters of works that thematically relate.

All to say, I don't know how to write a character that's Hispanic or other minority without it seeming token or an outright caricature, otherwise what's the point of them being that race?

Like Daggoo

I'm not trying to troll you, or even bully you, but may I ask: are you white?

Again (and I feel like I need to stress this, sincerely), I'm not trolling you.

Stop trolling him

It depends

If you're writing about something where the said non-white character is a minority, consider that they have had identity issues at some point, to some extent, and it may be to varying outcomes - either extreme apathy and avoidance about the subject, being an 'Uncle', or becoming an ethnonationalist or something akin to that for their homeland, in most cases the very former. Sometimes these minorities may even go to ridiculous extents to 'whitewash' themselves, by (un)consciously knowingly follow vapid fashion trends, adapt colloquialisms just for the sake of assimilation etc

If you're writing characters who grew up and might even operate in their non-Anglospheric and non-European countries, then you should do a bit of research into the culture and particularly the moralities of those countries

>otherwise what's the point of them being that race?
It can be either aesthethic (like borges did with their chinese, english, roman,etc characters) or (say, a novel about someone in iran) to give them a believable background.
But in places where it's not important, there is no need to do it.

If you do though, it's important that you really know how said community acts, saying hispanic but meaning mexican would be pretty "racist" (i can tell you, mexicans are a low point of the spanish speaking world)