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That's pretty disrespectful to Vonnegut. I had to learn Toni Morrisson when I was in college. It was a white teacher teaching white students (maybe other races, it was 10 years ago) and we all learned Beloved. Did we read it because Toni Morrisson is black? Honestly, I didn't know if she was really black or not just now and didn't want to embarrass myself and so I had to look it up. We read it because it was a good book. I just read Slaughterhouse V for the first time coincidentally today. It's an ambitious book too, taking on war and writing in a way that was pretty avant garde for the time (won the Hugo and Nebula I believe). That's why I read it. Not because he was white.