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On 7/3/20 6:20 PM, Ernest Leif wrote:
Jacobin right now has a live session on diversity with Benn Michaels. No
Black person in the session.
I can say this. I work as an editor - mostly as an assistant - in
Hollywood. The only way I got in was by organizing a union at a shlock
reality outfit called NYT Television (BTW Michael Yates book on unions
was invaluable to me). My first meeting in LA as a board member the
guild president told the others there - all white - that I had to fight
my way in, while most present were all born into it.
These are well paying jobs, with a defined pension, healthcare and
protection.
Hardly any Blacks work in post-production, except those that we fight to
bring in.
Hollywood has been having these convos for 50 years.
A critique of Walter Benn Michaels:
https://louisproyect.org/2009/09/04/a-critique-of-walter-benn-michaels/
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