If you want stories about non-white characters, perhaps you might choose a story that wasn’t written and set during a period in which over 99% of England’s population was white.
Most Canadians are unaware that the country’s first prime minister, now smeared as “racist,” defended Indigenous rights and advocated for their political enfranchisement.
When the past is judged by the harsh standards of the present, the history of the West becomes little more than a history of oppression of weaker groups by dominant European ethnicities and countries.
