Years ago, I sold a script to Fox Animation that included a character wrongly accused of a traffic violation (believe me, it was more entertaining than it sounds).
A few days later, I received a call from Fox's Standards and Practices department insisting that I change the wrongful accuser from a police officer to a private investigator.
The reason: "We can't portray police officers in a negative light." In other words, the studio was actively enforcing the harmful and inaccurate narrative that police officers can never do wrong.
What if, instead, those execs had looked across their network's content and raised flags when communities of color were repeatedly the ones depicted as wrongdoers?
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