She was the seventeenth student to approach the microphone.
“Why don’t you address race or gender issues in your
movies?”
He took a long, slow breath.
“Because I’m a white, straight male. If I bring either of
those issues up, I’m going to be attacked for supporting the status quo, or
attacked for acting like I have any idea what it’s like to experience the
issue.”
She sincerely stated that he had a loud, thus important
voice. So he made a film about the life of a young black woman.
It was criticised heavily. Mainly because it wasn’t any
good.
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