RuPaul’s Deflection About All-White Writers Room Is Part of a Larger Problem

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, 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% of Hollywood TV writers rooms have POC, compared to white writers at 86.3% representation; while at the showrunner level, POC representation is even worse at 9%, compared to 91% 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, directors chairs, and production reigns that compose and dictate the stories that eventually make way to our screens.

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