Posted on 06/14/2022 2:38:46 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
For many people, an author who is worth an estimated $800 million and has seen nearly a dozen of his original works made into big-budget films might be the definition of “success.” But James Patterson, the thriller novelist who checks all of the aforementioned boxes, seems to feel that his older white male peers don’t have the same chances in Hollywood as others these days because of ... racism?
In a new interview with the U.K’s The Times, as reported by Entertainment Weekly, Patterson described “another form of racism” he thinks older white men in his line of work face—racism that appears in the form of their difficulty securing a job in Hollywood and the publishing industry.
“What’s that all about?” he said. “Can you get a job? Yes. Is it harder? Yes. It’s even harder for older writers. You don’t meet many 52-year-old white males.”
The author found himself on the topic after the Times noted that much of Patterson’s initial success stemmed from his popular character Alex Cross, a Black detective and forensic psychologist who has been portrayed onscreen by Morgan Freeman and Tyler Perry.
“I just wanted to create a character who happened to be Black,” Patterson said. “I would not have tried to write a serious saga about a Black family. It’s different in a detective story because plot is so important.”
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That sounds about right. Several woke sheriffs and police chiefs were elected in 2020 here in NC and that seems to be their new policy.
I remember watching a couple of Cannon Films flicks being lampooned on Mystery Science Theater 3000 that starred the aforementioned Jack Palance.
Good to know you landed one. And you probably notice those McD’s signs with “$18/hr to start”..
In this cancel culture you have to keep your mouth shut about whites..and white males..unless you have “I can say whatever I want” money.
Even tried to get grunt work at Amazon, Wallymart and a few other places...no dice
Yep. Even as a white male in my early 40s, I’m losing out on management promotions to women of color every single time. Most of them have flimsy work experience, even outside our industry.
“Very little hiring is done at the local level, most hiring decisions are made at the corporate HR level and hiring older white males is not a priority.”
So true on HR. You could add any age for white males.
I read a bit as a hobby. Mostly short fiction, mostly Lovecraftian horror.
I noticed that the stories used to, up until about five-ten years ago, be written by white men aged about 40 and up.
In the past five or ten years, I’ve seen publishers printing works by woman and foreigners a lot more than they had ever before.
The vast majority of those, to me, seems like something that wouldn’t have made the publishing cutting table otherwise.
I wish they would go back to judging each story based on the narrative of each story rather than the narrative of the author.
Agreed. At 63, I worry about it often.
What your Deputy forgot to mention is that it’s prolly a whole lot SAFER to stop the old white person because the probability of aggression or making a chase out of the stop are pretty low.
Not saying it CAN’T happen, but I’d bet money that it won’t.
Why is James Patterson sitting next to Bill Clinton the pedophile and rapist and traitor? Why does he support that criminal?
Also where are his full socks?
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2022/06/14/james-patterson-white-men-struggling-to-find-writing-jobs-face-another-form-of-racism/
IWhites have been castrated and grovel constantly and pathetically. The left owns the culture.
Yep, when I saw the story I thought the point was that he is rich enough to not care about the reaction to his remarks. I guess he had more money than courage.
a character who happened to be Black
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No character ‘happens’ to be black (oops, BLACK).
A bolt of lightning from the skies zaps onto the Earth and creates that Black Character.
Opra. Worth over a billion, still complain incessantly about racism.
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All those faces on her $1, $5, $10, $20, $50, $100 [us commoners can’t get bills higher] are green (green tinted white).
Oh, Opra, I feel for you.
it’s prolly a whole lot SAFER to stop the old white person because the probability of aggression or making a chase out of the stop are pretty low.
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Just wait.
Old White Guys got nothing else to lose.
Not there yet, but I’m gettin’ close.
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