Screen Time: Diversity in Hollywood
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Last week, the Academy Award nominees were announced and for the first time since 1997, all the acting nominees were white.
On this week's Screen Time, Stephanie, Euan and Kerri discuss Hollywood and diversity.
Chris Rock wrote about the topic last year:
It's a white industry. Just as the NBA is a black industry. I'm not even saying it's a bad thing. It just is. And the black people they do hire tend to be the same person. That person tends to be female and that person tends to be Ivy League. And there's nothing wrong with that. As a matter of fact, that's what I want for my daughters. But something tells me that the life my privileged daughters are leading right now might not make them the best candidates to run the black division of anything.
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