Hollywood’s Hypocrisy: A Personal Lens on Racism in Films.
Hollywood loves to paint itself as a beacon of progress, a glittering world where diversity reigns and racism is a relic of the past. But peel back the red carpet, and the cracks show—sometimes subtle, sometimes supernova-bright. My journey to this realization started with a single line in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and it’s been fueled by a lifetime of seeing through the industry’s double standards, from my college days to the scripts handed to Black actors today.It was Peter Quill’s outburst in the Kyln prison scene that first grabbed me. He spots a guard with…