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IMAGINE what I could have done if I'd been on studio film sets my entire life instead of the smaller projects my social circle had access to

and that's not to say that I can't get even further on my own; it's just to say that a black person expending the same effort...

will not get as far as a white person, on average, expending the same amount of effort, simply because whites, on average, have more access.

4) Internships are the other way into the business. They are usually unpaid. Far more white people than black people...

have families that will bankroll their survival while they do a year of unpaid film/TV internships, and then subsidize them while they live

in NY/LA on a PA salary (~30k/yr, if you're getting consistent work.)

5) Lack of roles for black people in front of the camera translates to lack of black people behind the cam.

studios will often take an unproven/untested writer or director if they can get a star attached. We have fewer stars.