{"id":63460,"date":"2022-03-17T20:01:49","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63460"},"modified":"2022-03-17T20:01:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T20:01:50","slug":"so-now-im-going-to-focus-on-that-character-and-tell-this-personal-story-then-to-have-white-people-tell-me-that-i-cant-tell-my-own-story-it-is-traumatizing-that-shit-hurts-bu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63460","title":{"rendered":"So now I\u2019m going to focus on that character and tell this personal story. Then to have white people tell me that I can\u2019t tell my own story . . . It is traumatizing. That shit hurts. But I have to think that had to have been a part of what pushed me to keep going."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>Early in your career you were working on a TV show and pitched an episode about a white family trying to adopt a Black child, and it was rejected. Why did you never pursue adoption as subject matter again?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That was my third show on television. I had written the script and loved it. It was so personal, as you know. And to have the network come back and say, \u201cWe\u2019re not shooting this because it\u2019s too controversial\u201d\u2014that was the beginning of the end for me on that show. Imagine writing something that means so much to you, and you\u2019re the only Black writer on this show. Most of my time was spent trying to give agency to the one Black character, and to call out atrocious dialogue and story lines connected to that character\u2014when they decided to write for that character at all. So now I\u2019m going to focus on that character and tell this personal story. Then to have white people tell me that I can\u2019t tell my own story . . . It is traumatizing. That shit hurts. But I have to think that had to have been a part of what pushed me to keep going.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rebecca Carroll, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond Visible: Gina Prince-Bythewood on the Necessity of Black Women\u2019s Cinema<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Criterion Collection<\/em>, October 15, 2021. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63434\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.criterion.com\/current\/posts\/7567-beyond-visible-gina-prince-bythewood-on-the-necessity-of-black-women-s-cinema<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early in your career you were working on a TV show and pitched an episode about a white family trying to adopt a Black child, and it was rejected. Why did you never pursue adoption as subject matter again? That was my third show on television. I had written the script and loved it. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33260,33261,22899,33259],"class_list":["post-63460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-criterion-collection","tag-gina-prince-bythewood","tag-rebecca-carroll","tag-the-criterion-collection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63461,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63460\/revisions\/63461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}