In scholarship, this is a discredit to what they have actually thought and done. The same impulse that puts black men at risk makes their bodies desirable. An author should be free to create whatever they want, regardless of nationality. On the other hand, the writer has an obligation to write about issues concerning his people. I'm alarmed about the necessity for answering the question only for black writers.
Artists have to make up their mind about that.
I don't feel compelled to write about anything but black. At the moment, if people don't excite me in a creative way, I can't write about them. I knew people whose lives were probably like that. You just look at them and invent the rest. I never knew anyone who experienced what Picoth experienced, though.