'It’s about more than just who we see — cultural consumers today want authenticity on and off the screen, and now is the time for Hollywood to start supplying it.' Emmys
, echoed Kara’s statement, tweeting “I love when y’all expose yourselves by bringing up your entirely white staff. Y’all are covering — structural inequities — on your variety shows and look like THAT?!? ”found that only 13.7 percent of Hollywood TV writers’ rooms have POC, compared to white writers at 86.3 percent representation; while at the showrunner level, POC representation is even worse at 9 percent, compared to 91 percent for white showrunners.
Representation is key when it comes to the television shows, movies, and cultural forces that have the power to shape and influence current and future generations to come — but so is the choice to have Black and brown storytellers in the writers’ rooms, director chairs, and production reigns that compose and dictate the stories that eventually make way to our screens.
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