I'm not a fan of the YouTube series, but I think it's an interesting look at black writers/creators in Hollywood.
While I agree with not wanting your show's essence lost in the production, you have to know how maneuver in a room full of vultures. I would have to let them spin ABG into Awkard Indian Boy, etc and eat off the production credits.
Sometimes to win the war you have to lose some battles.
Looks like Shonda Rhimes
might have peaced her out, but her shows aren't exactly great reflections of black culture anyway, so.
It's a good look at how these studios and networks refuse to hire minority writers under the guise of not having enough experience. Kind of hard to get experience when no one is hiring.
Long read, but worth it.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/magazine/the-misadventures-of-issa-rae.html?_r=1&referrer=
Rae happened to share a management firm, 3 Arts, with the actor and writer Larry Wilmore, and it arranged for Wilmore to walk her through the screenwriting process. Before he joined Comedy Central, Wilmore had a hand in practically every black television show of note: ‘‘In Living Color,’’ ‘‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,’’ ‘‘The Jamie Foxx Show,’’ ‘‘The Bernie Mac Show,’’ ‘‘The PJs,’’ ‘‘Sister, Sister’’ and even the short-lived ‘‘Whoopi.’’ He spent a month interviewing Rae. They would sit for hours on his building’s rooftop in downtown Los Angeles. ‘‘I asked her what was going on in her life, what’s important to her, her sex life, what she thinks about, and we built the show out of that,’’ Wilmore says. ‘‘She had the ideas for characters, and we created a world around them.’’ They wrote the first script in eight days and revised it over the following weeks.
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.
While I agree with not wanting your show's essence lost in the production, you have to know how maneuver in a room full of vultures. I would have to let them spin ABG into Awkard Indian Boy, etc and eat off the production credits.
Sometimes to win the war you have to lose some battles. Looks like Shonda Rhimes
might have peaced her out, but her shows aren't exactly great reflections of black culture anyway, so.It's a good look at how these studios and networks refuse to hire minority writers under the guise of not having enough experience. Kind of hard to get experience when no one is hiring
.Long read, but worth it.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/08/09/magazine/the-misadventures-of-issa-rae.html?_r=1&referrer=
from Guts. Even though I heard it was stolen 
