I was cringing with every word that Laila said. It was so 'how white people write how black women speak'. I mean, as you said, there's nothing wrong with using dialect or terms common to a particular social group - they are the people who are going to use them - but Laila sounds like a character written by someone who has never interacted with POC, just heard they vaguely exist somewhere.

And Anita is talking about prejudice and victimisation of a group? YOU'RE TALKING TO THE WRONG PERSON ANITA. I think black people may understand racial hatred. Just a little bit.

This reminds me of how LKH always goes on in interviews about how much she'd lurve to be ethnic because of how cool it would be. Crap on a cracker, she just does not understand anything about this sort of stuff.