IF Rachael Ray had been black, there are bookstores where her cookbook would not be displayed in the same section with all the other cookbooks. It would be displayed off in a special section for black authors.This means that many people who were looking for cookbooks would not even see Rachael Ray's cookbook, much less buy it.
It's not rocket science, but it seems to have escaped the notice of those publishers who supply racial information on their authors, thereby jeopardizing their books' sales.
Honoring black writers with a special section in bookstores.
Liberal racial profiling. Symbolism over substance.
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