odinsblog:sydney-a-belle:thechanelmuse:Although network executives wanted to work with Issa Rae and
odinsblog:sydney-a-belle:thechanelmuse:Although network executives wanted to work with Issa Rae and tap into her dedicated fan base, they didn’t respect her mission to create programming that centers complex Black characters.‘‘They wanted to make it as broad as possible, broadly niche, but I was like: No, that’s not what this is about,’’ she explained.Even HBO, the network Rae is working with to develop the pilot for “Insecure,” was leery of allowing the Stanford grad to form a team that was extremely diverse.HBO approved the script for ‘‘Insecure’’ in the fall of 2013. Rae was excited to hire a support staff of other nonwhite writers and producers who would be intimately familiar with the milieu inhabited by her characters. She had a wish list of people she liked — primarily young women of color — but she soon found out HBO had little interest in hiring them. Generally, an HBO spokeswoman said, the network wants people who have experience.Read moreI’m so sick of this shit“Have experience” = shorthand for “the same white people we always hire” -- source link