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  1. Issa Rae _ The Misadventures of Awkward

    How hard is it to portray a three-dimensional woman of color on television or in film? I'm surrounded by them. They're my friends. I talk to them every day. How come Hollywood won't acknowledge us? Are we a joke to them? Now, having been in the industry for a couple of years, I'm not entirely sure it's blatant racism, as I had once assumed. It's more complicated than that. As Ralph Ellison once posited, we're invisible to them. We're simply not on their radar. As long as the people who are in charge aren't us, things will never change. Girls
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  2. Issa Rae _ The Misadventures of Awkward

    As Ralph Ellison once posited, we're invisible to them. We're simply not on their radar. As long as the people who are in charge aren't us, things will never change.
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