Posted on 11/14/2023 2:16:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
Entrepreneurs Saira Rao and Regina Jackson were in-demand after the murder of George Floyd with projects like 'Deconstructing Karen.' Now they say their comments in support of Palestinians since Oct. 7 have lost them their representation. CAA has dropped a pair of female BIPOC entrepreneurs who’ve gained notoriety in recent years for holding “anti-racist” dinner parties for an affluent white women audience, according to one of the founders who says they offended their agent with their vocal support for Palestine following Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre and Israel’s subsequent invasion of Gaza.
On Nov. 13 Saira Rao told her followers on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, that she and her business partner Regina Jackson were now without representation due to “our words denouncing genocide. This is McCarthyism on steroids and ethnic cleansing. We are disgusted but not shocked. #FreePalestine.”
CAA’s New York-based Ally Shuster had been their agent. The Century City-based major agency did not return a request for comment. Rao and Jackson’s speaking and book agents also didn’t respond to requests for comment.
Their organization, Race2Dinner, bills itself as hosting small dinners in which, for a fee, white women can participate “in very direct, exceedingly difficult conversations” with them “around white supremacy, racism and xenophobia.” Interest in their business, which was launched in 2019, spiked after the murder of George Floyd.
The pair’s endeavor has led to a book, White Women, detailing how “your desire to be perfect and to avoid conflict at all costs are characteristics of white supremacy culture,” which was blurbed by Chelsea Handler and Anna Paquin (“essential if you are dedicated to liberation for all”). It also prompted a documentary, Deconstructing Karen.
Rao and Jackson, who didn’t respond to a request for further comment, have been covered widely in the media, appearing everywhere from Dr. Phil to The Problem with Jon Stewart. Editors had a field day. The London Sunday Times: “Ladies, Your $5,000 ‘Racism Supper’ is Ready — Don’t Choke on the Guilt. New York Magazine: ‘Guilty Parties: Two Entrepreneurs Have Built a Business Dredging up White Women’s Shame.”
Rao has been posting about the Israel-Hamas conflict on her social media accounts, as well as reposting messages, including by the left-wing American Jewish organization IfNotNow, which describes Israel’s treatment of Palestinians as an “apartheid system,” as well as a speech by Palestinian congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, who was recently censured by the U.S. House for her own comments since Oct. 7. On Nov. 11, she posted on Instagram: “Call me a terrorist. Call me antisemitic. Call me angry, divisive, militant. Call me whatever you want. I am not committing genocide. You are. I am not condoning genocide. You are.”
CAA previously became enmeshed in Israel-Hamas politics when Maha Dakhil, its co-chief of the motion pictures department, had to step down from her leadership role in the division after she came under scrutiny for an Instagram repost that referenced “genocide.” She later deleted it and apologized, although her client Aaron Sorkin soon left the agency, returning to WME. “Maha isn’t an antisemite, she’s just wrong,” he said.
Get ‘em out of here.
I was thinking that the women who run these dinners are con artists, and they don’t necessarily believe the things that they themselves are saying. Instead, they’re just taking advantage of the fact that there are stupid, guilty white women who have more money than common sense.
Anyone who sits with those women has to be a masochist.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
That’s what I believe too.
Civil Aviation Authority (CAA).
Or Chester A. Arthur (21st US President) (CAA)
entrepreneurs... hilarious!
Nazis whining they are being labeled as Nazis
Saira: “Can you believe these stupid white women want to pay us this kind of money to call them stupid?”
Regina: “I know babe. You know what I say, don’t you? Let’s run with this thing ‘til the wheels fall off.”
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