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How Black Hollywood & White Hollywood Can Save America’s Soul — And The Movie Biz: Guest Column

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Gerren Crochet We can save America’s soul, together.The killing of George Floyd hurt millions of people very deeply and personally – some of whom finally were waking to their unique privilege, and others who had spent years screaming into deaf ears of the silent majority.

One reason that video was such a catalyst this time, as opposed to hundreds of other recent times, was because a modern-day lynching unfolded before our eyes in a familiar three-act structure.

It’s the story of power and powerlessness, of brutality and indifference, and of our collective hearts breaking as a grown man on the edge of death calls for his deceased mama while a human stand-in for America’s policing system literally chokes the life out of him.

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