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Good to see, and this story should be mandatory reading for every college professor in the country.
Why I Quit the Writers’ Room
The worst thing you can do to citizens of a democracy is silence them.
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Loses Walter Mosley From Writers’ Room After Racial Epithet Complaint
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Loses Walter Mosley From Writers’ Room After Racial Epithet Complaint
Opinion | Why I Quit the Writers’ Room
Why I Quit the Writers’ Room
The worst thing you can do to citizens of a democracy is silence them.
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Loses Walter Mosley From Writers’ Room After Racial Epithet Complaint
Acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley revealed today that he decided to leave Star Trek: Discovery after his use of a racial epithet in the writers room of the CBS All Access series resulted in Human Resources telling him that “I could not use that word except in a script.”
“My answer to H.R. was to resign and move on,” the Easy Rawlins mystery novels author and Snowfall consulting producer wrote in an op-ed entitled “Why I Quit The Writers’ Room,” published Friday on the New York Times website about the fallout from his use of the N-word.
“I was in a writers’ room trying to be creative while at the same time being surveilled by unknown critics who would snitch on me to a disembodied voice over the phone,” Mosley asserted, while never naming the Sonequa Martin-Green-led Discovery he had a short stint of less than an month on. “My every word would be scrutinized. Sooner or later I’d be fired or worse — silenced.”
‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Loses Walter Mosley From Writers’ Room After Racial Epithet Complaint
Opinion | Why I Quit the Writers’ Room