I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.
I don't mean that literary fiction is better than genre fiction, On the contrary; novels can perform two functions and most perform only one.