- Conservatives, not black film orgs, help bring searing documentary to the public
Yes, Hollywood and major media platforms like Netflix routinely attempt to bring more people of color into the entertainment industry.
...There’s a sizable catch, though.
Diversity efforts typically shun right-of-center voices that happen to be black or brown.
It’s why the media and film critics mostly ignored Larry Elder’s recent documentary “Uncle Tom” focusing on the black conservative experience.
There’s no better example of this diversity blind spot, though, than Amazon’s brief, but telling war against “What Killed Michael Brown?”
The haunting documentary finds author Shelby Steele examining the 2014 death of the Ferguson resident and the racial firestorm that followed. Those embers blazed anew earlier this year after George Floyd’s death following a fatal police altercation...Read all.
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