Issa Rae says she was told include white characters on shows to make audiences care
Photograph by Merie W. Wallace/HBO Issa Rae is reflecting on some advice she was given when she developed her hit 2011 web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl -- the show that helped launch her critically acclaimed HBO series Insecure. "From the jump in creating the show, it was put in my mind that you had to have a white character to be a bridge, and for people to care, for it to get awards, for it to be considered worthy of the television canon," Rae tells Mic. Rae explains that a white former colleague advised her that adding a white characters would make her shows more...
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