You seem hell bent on making excuses with no solutions. I know black people who make their own shit without Hollywood. Heres a reality check. Everybody ain't gone make it, but those who do put in the work and invest in themselves. My examples proved that and yet you still miss the point. I am currently invested in a black animated/comic business which raised money through crowdfunding.
No you missed the point.
Lol, Kathleen Kennedy, the woman behind LucasFilms, first movie she ever produced was fucking ET. She came from being a basic ass production assistant from a basic ass university to producing a movie that almost grossed a billion dollars. A movie that had Michael Jackson and Quincy Jones do the soundtrack.
The first movie she executive produced was fucking Gremlins. She went from producing ET in 1982. Gremlins came out in 1984.
That's called having infrastructure.
That's called having people that look like you not having to be the talent and management because you got enough motherfuckers that just wanna be behind the camera. You have enough people that has time to teach you how to do your job, instead of doing the jobs of 3 people half-assed and off of talent alone. You get to learn from actual experts. She learned from fucking Stephen Spielberg.
She is worth 300 million dollars and all she does is produce movies. She doesn't act, she doesn't direct, she doesn't write, she just tells people what to do.
She didn't have to be desperate trying to make it. She was able to gradually progress into a job, find a mentor, build social capital like normal people do.
And I bet all her lead actresses are getting paid what they feel like they are worth because she doesn't have to scrape and claw for every penny because the stories she tell are actually valued by people outside of her race and nationality.
Lol, but like I said, motherfuckers don't wanna build infrastructure for their lavish dreams to take off, they just wanna do some shit and wonder why they never get the same out of their labor as other races lol.
It makes sense that Atlanta took off and inspired knockoffs like Reservation Dogs and Dave despite Donald Glover having to act, direct, showrun and write. He went to college, did sketch comedy, did Community, did stand-up, been in White spaces all of his life, so he understood the value of having fucking infrastructure when got his chance. He hired an all writing Black staff, gave people chances, didn't hog any credit. You know, regular ass shit.
And people know Atlanta was actually good because most of the writers on that show went on to do other shows and projects with acclaim lol. Ain't nobody leaving a damn Tyler Perry Show to do shit but work on some shit that is going straight to Tubi or BET+
