With barriers to entry in most Hollywood careers, the road to success for young Latines can be limited.
If you don't keep up with entertainment news, you should know that the writers and actors of your favorite films and TV shows are currently out on picket lines fighting for fair wages. Thousands of hard-working guild members, like myself, are out of work at the behest of our union: The Writers Guild of America. The WGA advocates minimum pay, pension, health plans and more for entertainment writers of all kinds.
That two Latines from the same high school on the South Side of San Antonio can bring our varied opinions and experience to a global audience is huge. It's unheard of, in fact. Consult any inclusion study or opinion piece of the past five years. I spoke with Southwest High School alum and now district and community relations specialist Brandon Medina who feels what happens in current media directly affects his students.
Too often Latine writers are asked to prove themselves repeatedly until they're given the chance to be a showrunner at all . There are very few of us in positions of power because it takes access, time and money to confront all the obstacles that currently exist in Hollywood for Latines. And there are many.
That to me is enough to fear the new barriers to entry being created by this strike. That is, the longer this strike goes on, the more young Latines are leaving Hollywood. That's just not acceptable to me. I want Spurs jerseys as far as the eye can see on the walls of Latine characters on television, and if you're from the 210 for real, I know you do too.
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