Good to see, and this story should be mandatory reading for every college professor in the country.
Why I Quit the Writersâ Room
The worst thing you can do to citizens of a democracy is silence them.
âStar Trek: Discoveryâ Loses Walter Mosley From Writersâ Room After Racial Epithet Complaint
âStar Trek: Discoveryâ Loses Walter Mosley From Writersâ Room After Racial Epithet Complaint
Opinion | Why I Quit the Writersâ Room
Why I Quit the Writersâ Room
The worst thing you can do to citizens of a democracy is silence them.
âStar Trek: Discoveryâ Loses Walter Mosley From Writersâ Room After Racial Epithet Complaint
Acclaimed novelist Walter Mosley revealed today that he decided to leave Star Trek: Discovery after his use of a racial epithet in the writers room of the CBS All Access series resulted in Human Resources telling him that âI could not use that word except in a script.â
âMy answer to H.R. was to resign and move on,â the Easy Rawlins mystery novels author and Snowfall consulting producer wrote in an op-ed entitled âWhy I Quit The Writersâ Room,â published Friday on the New York Times website about the fallout from his use of the N-word.
âI was in a writersâ room trying to be creative while at the same time being surveilled by unknown critics who would snitch on me to a disembodied voice over the phone,â Mosley asserted, while never naming the Sonequa Martin-Green-led Discovery he had a short stint of less than an month on. âMy every word would be scrutinized. Sooner or later Iâd be fired or worse â silenced.â
âStar Trek: Discoveryâ Loses Walter Mosley From Writersâ Room After Racial Epithet Complaint
Opinion | Why I Quit the Writersâ Room