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What does this say to the industry at large, if the one place doesn t feel that you can determine your own style? roland, very quickly. yeah. that is we need to target the industry. you cannot have the number of magazines out there. roy johnson cannot be the only african-american editing a nonblack magazine. that makes no sense in 2010. that s the real issue. we should be fighting those folks to say open the doors now. we ve got to leave it there. the one the one opened door is now closed. it feels that way. thank you. roland martin as well. i want our viewers to weigh in at the blog, ac360.com. the live chat is up and running. let us know what you think. we reached out to essence magazine to come on tonight they declined. the magazine s editor in chief gave us this statement. our new fashion director elianna placas is part of a growing fashion team at essence. we are making this issue has struck an emotional chord with our audience however i selected elliana because ....