Journalists are often taught to keep politics out of our storytelling. But if we step back and admit that all writing is political, we can see the importance of writing with a moral agenda in mind.
I am a white male writer who generally writes with political purpose. George Orwell was very clear about this in "Why I Write." "I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally." I also like this quote from Richard Wright in Black Boy: "It was only in the realm of politics that I could see the depths of the human heart."
I am a white male writer who generally writes with political purpose. George Orwell was very clear about this in "Why I Write." "I see that it is invariably where I lacked a political purpose that I wrote lifeless books and was betrayed into purple passages, sentences without meaning, decorative adjectives and humbug generally." I also like this quote from Richard Wright in Black Boy: "It was only in the realm of politics that I could see the depths of the human heart."