It depends on what the person did, no matter how many times somebody apologizes, if they did something that was seriously bad & serious { in this case it was } people are going to have different reactions, especially if it was targeted towards them.
the author did apologize, but the damage is already done, some people after awhile were able to forgive them while others weren't & that's due to several reasons, one of them being BPOC constantly see stuff like this happen all types of books, sometimes even comics.
Just because you apologize doesn’t mean you deserve forgiveness. What the author did wasn’t a little oopsie, they didn’t step on someone’s foot they used a racial slur used to dehumanize people. Obviously not everyone can move on from that, the author is not the victim.
I hope people understand that if you don't like reading something, you can just drop it. Yes the racism thing was bad. I'm black and I agree but the author apologized and corrected their behavior. Imagine if you do something wrong and everytime you try to move pass it someone drags you back to it and continues hammering what you did on your forehead.
It can honestly lead to major depression and high anxiety and fear to move forward.
The author apologized, they corrected their ways, we move pass it. If some of you guys were God, there'd be no such thing as forgiveness. Please stop this behavior, it's not the right way to tackle a matter like this.