'I want people to know we are enough.'
, the star recalled some"advice" given to her by a colleague working on her 2011 web series,"From the jump in creating the show, it was put in my mind that you had to have a White character to be a bridge, and for people to care, for it to get awards, for it to be considered worthy of the television canon," Rae said, before recounting what her colleague said.
After a while though, Rae said she began"actively resisting" the instinct to add more white characters and even decided to keep the entire cast Black once Frieda quit her job. "I was like, 'Fuck no! This is not a show about Freida!,'" she said."I realized, 'Oh my gosh, our show is just about Black characters now in the most refreshing way.'"
She added,"I hope that not having to think of an audience that isn't us — and being okay with that — is passed on. I want people to know we are enough."
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