I find it odd the way they insist on changing these things that already existed, especially in light of the alternative.
Someone pointed it out to me recently and I can't unsee it: Back when I was growing up, there were lots of shows by for and of black people. Some of them ended up becoming megahits. Fresh Prince of Bel-air, Family Matters, the Wayan brothers, and cartoons like Static Shock and that show about MC Hammer, and those ones just off the top of my head. There were a lot of movies back then too, an entire industry of movies that had international releases and did quite well. I remember enjoying a lot of them. Some of the most bankable actors as well.
We have decades of proof that black people can make extraordinarily successful media. What is it about Hollywood that makes it so they don't want black people creating things proper anymore? It's almost like they're setting things up for intentional failure by starting with the wrong question...
Someone pointed it out to me recently and I can't unsee it: Back when I was growing up, there were lots of shows by for and of black people. Some of them ended up becoming megahits. Fresh Prince of Bel-air, Family Matters, the Wayan brothers, and cartoons like Static Shock and that show about MC Hammer, and those ones just off the top of my head. There were a lot of movies back then too, an entire industry of movies that had international releases and did quite well. I remember enjoying a lot of them. Some of the most bankable actors as well.
We have decades of proof that black people can make extraordinarily successful media. What is it about Hollywood that makes it so they don't want black people creating things proper anymore? It's almost like they're setting things up for intentional failure by starting with the wrong question...
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