Aronson vs. Pinkney

After reading both Marc Aronson's and Andrea Pinkney's articles regarding awards specific for certain cultures and groups, I was left very confused. I found that while reading Aronson's article "Slippery Slopes and Proliferating Prizes" I was agreeing with a majority of what he was saying. His main point can be summed up when he said "By insisting on testing the racial identity of its winners, the CSK shifts its focus from literature to biography...Your community, your ethnicity, comes before your talent" (Aronson 273). I find it kind of unfair that people who do write accuate literature for a certain group that do not culturally belong cannot even have their work considered for recognition.