I& #39;ve been read by a lot of gatekeepers over the years who& #39;ve told me "I& #39;m almost ready."

Then George Floyd was murdered and a Twitter hashtag allowed me to skip the gatekeepers and get read by decision makers. The decision makers told me "I& #39;ve been ready for years."

Funny that.

I& #39;m not done with my Twitter hiatus yet, but I just had to get that off my chest.

My life is in a very different place than when I left Twitter, and it& #39;s due to a hashtag resulting from the murder of a Black man allowing me to skip the gatekeepers that filter out "other" voices.

This industry has a pipeline problem that shouldn& #39;t take murder to solve.

Still to this day I can& #39;t help but wonder, would this industry have allowed Ryan Coogler to have a career if Oscar Grant were still alive?

Or would he have just been asked, "Who& #39;s the audience?"