"Apartheid" in Hollywood?

During a Q&A session with director Leslie Harris at the New York Film Festival on Sunday, the usually outspoken Michael Moore expressed his thoughts on Hollywood's much-discussed diversity problem. "This is absolutely wrong," Moore said of the industry's lack of opportunity for women directors, according to The Hollywood Reporter. "I’m missing out on her story. Their stories. That person," he continued. "What are the great films that you and I are missing because their great voices can’t be heard? I want to go to that movie. I want to hear that voice. I’m being denied that voice by a system that’s sent out to give the reins to white men."

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Define: White Guilt

  (via Urban Dictionary)

White guilt can be defined as a belief, often subconscious, among white liberals that being white is, in and of itself, a great transgression against the rest of the world for which one must spend their life making atonement. It is often exemplified by embracing the cultures and philosophies of various other ethnic groups while neglecting one's own roots.

Although Randy came from a family of middle-class W.A.S.P.s from the suburbs, his white guilt later spurred him to become a Rastafarian.

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A Mr. Midnight Movie Perspective: MTV's White People

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