Last night, LAPD pounded on our door & demanded my partner & I step out in the hallway to be cuffed without telling us what they were even here for. Then they took us inside our apt, looked for other ppl inside, & separated us for questioning. A call had been made saying there was domestic violence happening in our particular apt: screaming, crying, things being thrown. Didn’t matter we told them we’d just gotten home from dinner, that it wasn’t us. They told us this after we were handcuffed & inside our apt.

I want to tell a quick story of the night I went to the ER for my dog bite to the mouth. My friends drove me to the nearest hospital down the road from them in Burbank. I was in shock and hyperventilating. I got a cot after maybe an hour & received a painkiller. 1/ The nurse asked to look at my wound and grimaced, “Oh my god, that’s bad.” Thanks? The Physician’s Asst on duty then came to look. He LAUGHED & said he cld sew it up but it wldn’t look very good. He said he cld try calling their on call plastic surgeon then disappeared. 2/

If I hear about one more agent, manager or actor telling people “It’S hArD oUt tHeRe fOr wHiTe aCtoRs, eVeRyThInG’s gOiNg dIveRsE, mInOrItiEs aRe bOoKiNg eVeRyThInG!”

STOP SAYING THAT SHIT, IT IS NOT EVEN REMOTELY TRUE!

And yet I’ve heard it twice in the last wk

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#thread Here are some facts from the 2019 UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report:

1)ONLY 2 OUT OF 10 LEAD ACTORS IN A FILM ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR

2)ONLY 2.2 OUT OF 10 LEAD ACTORS IN BROADCAST SCRIPTED TV ARE PEOPLE OF COLOR

3)PEOPLE OF COLOR REPRESENT 39.4% OF THE CURRENT US POPULATION

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