Buddy, I’ve tried to be more patient with you than other commenters, but that truly crosses a line. Taking someone else’s experiences, and selectively quoting them to suit your own agenda, so it fits your definition of discrimination, is disgraceful.

If you’d read on in my comment, I described how literary agents are inundated with thousands of requests. It is literally an industry anyone with Word or OpenOffice can try to enter into. There are probably hundreds of minority authors also getting turned away just like me. This is not an instance of “defending one’s presence” the way that minorities need to in their workplaces, the way the current administration is scrutinizing them in Federal offices. This is just me trying to be the one in a thousand shot to publicize a book - which is a rare accomplishment. So, NO. You don’t get to “own” and weaponize someone else’s hardship in that way. Not ever.

Shame on you.