The thing about @lilnasx is that if he hadn’t birthed Old Town Road and Montero and become a self made cultural icon, he’d STILL be a genius communicator and marketer.
He’d be Montero Hill, a 22 year old junior employee whose ideas and abilities were likely overlooked because he doesn’t fit the corporate description of communications and marketing genius.
How many other Montero Hills are out there, working at your companies well below their abilities - not even getting interviews at your companies - because you can’t recognize the talent in this form?
And how much money are you leaving on the table because you can’t?
Imagine @lilnasx doing rapid response for political campaigns. My god.
Here are some Congressmen from Southern States who served in the latter half of the 19th Century who are perfectly worthy of statuary honors (Alphabetical for ease of use):
Blanche K Bruce
Richard E Cain
Robert C Delarge
Robert B Elliott
Jeremiah Haralson
Here are some Congressmen from Southern States who served in the latter half of the 19th Century who are perfectly worthy of statuary honors (Alphabetical for ease of use):
John A Hyman
Jefferson Long
John R Lynch
Charles E Nash
Joseph E Rainey
Here are some Congressmen from Southern States who served in the latter half of the 19th Century who are perfectly worthy of statuary honors (Alphabetical for ease of use):
Alonzo J Ransier
James T Rapier
Hiram Revels
Robert Smalls
Benjamin S Turner
It has been an extremely busy two months over @theblcklst so I'm putting everything that we're allowed to talk about yet in a single thread as both valuable information to screenwriters and film and television industry professionals and as a tribute to @theblcklst team
A thread:
Writers were selected via our partnership with @Google Assistant to receive $20K each and mentorship from writers including @maxbarbakow, Andy Siara, @MarjaLewisRyan, and @erivinoja.
Honestly though, having @PhyliciaRashad as the Dean of one's school would be stressful. It's one thing to disappoint your elders in an academic environment, but that would be too much.
Get called into the Dean's office and see this on the other side of the desk.
* Daniel Kaluuya won an Oscar for Judas and the Black Messiah.
* He is not Leslie Odom Jr., who starred in One Night in Miami.
* Neither man is David Oyelowo, who directed The Water Man, which is out now. indiewire.com/2021/05/jason-…
Time to dig into this race and Hollywood study by noted social justice warriors..checks notes...@mckinsey (Yes, a joke)
Headline is obviously that Hollywood is losing $10B per year by not optimizing for the economics of Black talent but THERE'S MORE (1/x) deadline.com/2021/03/mckins…
A lot more. But yes, "By addressing the persistent racial inequities [re: the Black community], the industry could reap an additional $10 billion in annual revenue—about 7% more than the assessed baseline of $148 billion"
"The few Black creatives in prominent off-screen positions (creator/producer/writer/director) find themselves responsible for providing for other Black off-screen talent. Unless >=1 senior member of a production is Black, Black talent is largely shut out" mckinsey.com/Featured-Insig…