#TVWriters have a responsibility going forward to accurately portray black voices and stories in our art that doesn't exploit black pain and suffering for entertainment value. It's time to tell other black stories that aren't guilt porn for white viewers. (1/2)

1) If you are not hiring writers of color on your staff, change that. They are writers first and foremost, not token diversity, so mix it up.

2) Too many rooms are all white men and one woman of color who pulls double-duty representation POC and female voices. Which means...

2)...women of color are unfairly burdened as the sole champion of all underrepresented voices, while men of color are left out of the conversation and have a harder time finding staffing gigs. Commit to a room that is 25-50% underrepresented voices.

3) Don't be afraid to admit you need help knowing WHAT KINDS of stories will best uplift and serve the black community in a non-exploitive way. Color of Change is an organization/resource the WGA has a relationship with who are available to consult. https://colorofchange.org/ 

If anyone has any other advice, I'll retweet. Right now, the black community should absolutely be part of the conversation, but we cannot burden them with educating all of us further. This shit has been going on so long and it is draining. We have to do more.

Established white male writers are not the reason young diverse voices are being kept out. Young diverse voices are not being promoted through the ranks because white showrunners tend to judge us on a different scale than our white counterparts.

Diverse writers are forced to repeat lower level staffing more times than white counterparts and that was happening long before the conflict. To imply the WGA conflict is the reason diversity is going down (which, according to data, it's not) is ignore the systemic prejudice in

My point: in a thread directed to TV writers about our responsibility to the black community to include them in our story-telling, saying we need to end the WGA conflict because you can't find writers is not helpful. That may have not been your point - but that's the framing.

It is especially frustrating when writers like myself, Javi, LaToya, the Guild staff, and other writers who have been legit killing ourselves for a year to bring these writers to light. The resources are there for you to use, because we broke our backs making them.

There are plenty of lists, resources, and signed agencies at this point to help. There is a WGA database established for this purpose. The issues are with promotion, not the WGA conflict. Don't scapegoat.

I understand you were trying to provide a prospective. But while I'd be happy usually to engage about why I don't agree with your perspective, this especially was not the thread.

My point: in a thread directed to TV writers about our responsibility to the black community to include them in our story-telling, saying we need to end the WGA conflict because you can't find writers is not helpful. That may have not been your point - but that's the framing.