After reading this, the question that begs to be asked is, as a PoC, is that what you *want*?
Do you want to never see CoC in fanfic because people, even PoC are afraid of writing them?

Because, to me, thinking things like that, letting the fear of what other people say, well it is really shooting yourself in the foot before you start, but also, I think it spawns more confusion and misunderstanding, and leaves us open to all kinds of pain.

I think people need to learn to accept that writers can't be perfect. Or that people interpret things differently, and that those interpretations aren't done out of malice (usually, I know that's not always true), and that this applies to CoC too. I mean, we're all able to accept a hundred different interpretations of McKay and Sheppard, why can't there be more than one of Ronon and Teyla.

And the thing is, if I wrote either Colby or John as coming from a lower class family, even though neither's been specified (at least not that I recall), I wouldn't get any flack from anyone.
I think, more than anything, the thing that keeps racism alive, is the double standard.
When people demand that a character be treated differently, it creates an environment where people can do no right.
When people go ragging on a fic and call it racist rather than identify it as bad writing, or poor characterization they just create an environment where *anything* produced is going to seem racist.
And to lay the burden of saying that if you are going to touch these characters there is no room for error... it's just shooting yourself in the foot again, and means that people will never get past a persons skin colour and see a character, a person.

*sigh* I keep writing things, and then deleting them. I think trying to give examples is just throwing me off, so I'm going to leave it here.