While I'm not exactly opposed to writers writing about experiences outside their own (wouldn't that be boring?), there's definitely some issues with regards to sensationalizing violence in this book (some of the events are widely exaggerated and people who covered these events have stated that there's no evidence for a lot of what happens in this book). However, I didn't get the feeling that she did it with bad intentions; after listening to some of her interviews I do think she had good intent, but whiteness clearly filtered her experience).