Opinions on race in stories

I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have even thought that it was my place to be writing about that. I would like to incorporate some struggles in the story. Specifically centered around homophobia. I will not be keeping the racism in the story, nor were either the homophobia or the racism going to be a major plot line, just something that she struggled with in general, as I don’t just want the story to be happy and perfect with no issues, because that makes for a very boring story. Thank you for all of your words, it really was very helpful, and again I’m very sorry.