John Ridley Warns How DEI Decline Will Harm Hollywood Diversity Gains – Guest Column

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Editor’s note: John Ridley is the Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave writer, writer-director of Five Days at Memorial, and the Eisner-nominated writer of the DC graphic novel series GCPD: The Blue Wall.

He also hosts with Matt Carey the Deadline podcast Doc Talk, and occasionally contributes guest columns. I’m kinda surprised/not surprised that people are so … surprised about the corporate retreat from the DEI programs that they themselves put in place in the wake of the 2020 assassination of Mr.

George Floyd. In all corners of the business world corporations are literally waving the “white” flag with regard to insuring the spaces in which we work better reflect the world in which we live.

That it’s happening in businesses outside of Hollywood is sad — seriously, the concept of ending racism is suddenly so toxic that it’s no longer not just society’s end game.