At TheWrap’s Creators x Hollywood Summit on April 13, Insecure creator Issa Rae said what most of Hollywood’s progressive class is only willing to say quietly.
Nobody objects to stories about black people, starring black people. No one even objects to certain race-swaps, like Will Smith in I Am Legend or Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, because both actors are extremely charismatic and well-liked (or, in Smith’s case, formerly well-liked). What we object to is racial quotas in films, the insertion of black or other race actors in historical dramas where they are inappropriate, or wildly altering beloved source material for diversity purposes (like the new Harry Potter). Racially-specific shows are perfectly fine, whether it’s Sanford and Son, The Cosby Show, or Insecure, but this woman should realize that the first two had wide appeal because they didn't play the race card constantly, while no one has ever heard of her show beyond its niche audience.
Those creators are indie. They don't need or want tickboxes or checklists. That destroys creativity straight away. Hollywood can only attract talentless hacks who need cheap money to prop them and their vanity projects up. All the real talent don't need the legacy ecosystem. ITS DYING AND COLLAPSING UNDER THE WEIGHT OF CHEAP LOANS THAT NOW LEADS TO TONS OF UNSUSTAINABLE DEBT.
The real creative talent with AI tools, crowdfunding, social media etc Don't need legacy outlets. So only the hacks go to Hollywood furthering ensuring the legacy medias demise. They did it to themselves.
Issa Rae’s soul existence is nothing without the DEI restrictions. And I’m going to say this, she was the only cast member in the Super Mario Galaxy movie to be completely pointless casting, since her character, the Honey Queen was only on screen for a minute. She’s one step closer to irrelevance.
She built her career in hollywood (from Youtube) by playing the race card. She can't survive without cheap money for her vanity projects. That money has dried up. Shes doomed herself. Now playing victim to justify her worthless existence in the collapsing legacy media ecosystem.
They are trying to Rebrand it to hide it from normal people. The leftist have gone to far in exposing their sick agenda now they are attempting to scale back, pretend it didnt happen then try again when they think people have forgotten. Repeat. These people wont quit. Dont stop exposing them.
She can't fathom that Hollywood is dying in real time because nobody wanted their vanity projects disguised as "entertainment." The cheap easy money they got for that crap has dried up as Hollywood now has to try to make money to prop up their vanity ideals that across the board has failed.
Its only going to get worse. LA and Califronia and NYC are falling apart and are in no position for sustaining any film industry without massive TAXES and DEI stuff that will make those projects untenable and unprofitible.
The Studios, Unions and Talent Agencies are in DEBT. Hence cost cutting and layoffs. Expect more mergers or consildations going forwards as Hollywood tries to stop the sinking ship.
The Audience is fragmented across multiple platforms and content makers as thus they DO NOT HAVE A MONPOLY ANYMORE. But they will try to get one through cutbacks, layoffs, mergers, consildations along with PANDERING TO US (Temporaily) to get financially stable again before going back to pushing the same stuff.
DO NOT STOP BOYCOTTING HOLLYWOOD. THEY ARE IN DEBT FACING COLLAPSE. LET THEM DIE.
Her advice sounds like a switch from making propaganda about race and gender (modern leftism) to making propaganda about class (classic leftism). How about a focus on human stories and not heavy-handed moralism?
Am I supposed to fell sorry? Because… I don't. Not anymore. That's what 10 years (since when I realized) of institutionalized racism and sexism do to a person, and seeing the results, to an industry as well.
They are trying to blame everyone under the sun, I hope history will record them as the architects of their own demise, as it should be. I certainly will.
Everything about this seems fake. Like a shitty dream. Her face. Her name. Her placement in society. All set to reality. I’m having a hard time reconciling her undeserved manufactured “gravitas”.
Grace Randolph said the same thing in her Barbie review a few years ago. Basically, her advice to Hollywood was to use deceptive marketing to trick the audience into going to the movies and then, after we are your captives, dump the DEI and progressive sermons on us.
Nobody objects to stories about black people, starring black people. No one even objects to certain race-swaps, like Will Smith in I Am Legend or Samuel L. Jackson as Nick Fury, because both actors are extremely charismatic and well-liked (or, in Smith’s case, formerly well-liked). What we object to is racial quotas in films, the insertion of black or other race actors in historical dramas where they are inappropriate, or wildly altering beloved source material for diversity purposes (like the new Harry Potter). Racially-specific shows are perfectly fine, whether it’s Sanford and Son, The Cosby Show, or Insecure, but this woman should realize that the first two had wide appeal because they didn't play the race card constantly, while no one has ever heard of her show beyond its niche audience.
Those creators are indie. They don't need or want tickboxes or checklists. That destroys creativity straight away. Hollywood can only attract talentless hacks who need cheap money to prop them and their vanity projects up. All the real talent don't need the legacy ecosystem. ITS DYING AND COLLAPSING UNDER THE WEIGHT OF CHEAP LOANS THAT NOW LEADS TO TONS OF UNSUSTAINABLE DEBT.
The real creative talent with AI tools, crowdfunding, social media etc Don't need legacy outlets. So only the hacks go to Hollywood furthering ensuring the legacy medias demise. They did it to themselves.
Issa Rae’s soul existence is nothing without the DEI restrictions. And I’m going to say this, she was the only cast member in the Super Mario Galaxy movie to be completely pointless casting, since her character, the Honey Queen was only on screen for a minute. She’s one step closer to irrelevance.
She built her career in hollywood (from Youtube) by playing the race card. She can't survive without cheap money for her vanity projects. That money has dried up. Shes doomed herself. Now playing victim to justify her worthless existence in the collapsing legacy media ecosystem.
DEI has ALWAYS been a "bad word". It's just the leftards are finally catching up to the normal people.
They are trying to Rebrand it to hide it from normal people. The leftist have gone to far in exposing their sick agenda now they are attempting to scale back, pretend it didnt happen then try again when they think people have forgotten. Repeat. These people wont quit. Dont stop exposing them.
She can't fathom that Hollywood is dying in real time because nobody wanted their vanity projects disguised as "entertainment." The cheap easy money they got for that crap has dried up as Hollywood now has to try to make money to prop up their vanity ideals that across the board has failed.
Its only going to get worse. LA and Califronia and NYC are falling apart and are in no position for sustaining any film industry without massive TAXES and DEI stuff that will make those projects untenable and unprofitible.
The Studios, Unions and Talent Agencies are in DEBT. Hence cost cutting and layoffs. Expect more mergers or consildations going forwards as Hollywood tries to stop the sinking ship.
The Audience is fragmented across multiple platforms and content makers as thus they DO NOT HAVE A MONPOLY ANYMORE. But they will try to get one through cutbacks, layoffs, mergers, consildations along with PANDERING TO US (Temporaily) to get financially stable again before going back to pushing the same stuff.
DO NOT STOP BOYCOTTING HOLLYWOOD. THEY ARE IN DEBT FACING COLLAPSE. LET THEM DIE.
Her advice sounds like a switch from making propaganda about race and gender (modern leftism) to making propaganda about class (classic leftism). How about a focus on human stories and not heavy-handed moralism?
They dont have the talent. Only tickbox hacks goto hollywood or nepo babies.
I suspect there’s lots of writing talent out there who’d be fine removing DEI from their stories.
Ironically, they’re blacklisted due to said dei.
Am I supposed to fell sorry? Because… I don't. Not anymore. That's what 10 years (since when I realized) of institutionalized racism and sexism do to a person, and seeing the results, to an industry as well.
They are trying to blame everyone under the sun, I hope history will record them as the architects of their own demise, as it should be. I certainly will.
Nobody likes black women in 2026.
Has anybody liked Black Women? Like ever?
Nope.
No.
And this isn’t some mindless racist stab. There were scientific articles about why black dudes covet white.
1) to get one over on whitey.
2) and MAINLY. Because they hate the bitchy American black woman, borne from the 60’s.
Which is why they’re pushed so mauch now.
You know: the margins need to be seen’d.
Everything about this seems fake. Like a shitty dream. Her face. Her name. Her placement in society. All set to reality. I’m having a hard time reconciling her undeserved manufactured “gravitas”.
Grace Randolph said the same thing in her Barbie review a few years ago. Basically, her advice to Hollywood was to use deceptive marketing to trick the audience into going to the movies and then, after we are your captives, dump the DEI and progressive sermons on us.