Posted on 09/05/2026 7:57:06 PM PDT by Mount Athos
TV writer Vanessa Baden Kelly recently appeared on the New Rockstars podcast with hosts Erik Voss and Jessica Clemons, where she spoke about her experiences writing the comic book series — which has revealed itself to be a rehash of BLM-era preachy messaging. But she also spoke about where she came from before her TV writing career.
(...) But after the year 2000, she took about a ten-year break from the entertainment industry and became a left-wing community activist. By 2011, she went back to seeking work as an actress and also as a writer.
Baden Kelly claimed that her acting career stalled when “diversity” started “slipping backwards” around the year 2000.
“I was working for Karen Bass while still trying to audition, but nothing was really moving because we had slipped backwards in the diversity revolution. And so I started to write,” she said.
In another segment, Baden-Kelly claims that she wrote the Lanterns scene where a character was explaining racism to an alien because “it’s 1986 and this lady knows nothing about nothing.”
The podcast’s co host suggests that the alien species which recruits Green Lanterns around the galaxy may not have known much about race relations on Earth because the Rodney King riots had not yet ravaged Los Angeles when this scene occurs — decades after the Civil Rights era. Baden Kelly enthusiastically co-signs his speculation.
The HBO series came under heavy criticism for its third episode in which one of the characters delivers a lecture on “white privilege.”
The series is produced by James Gunn and helmed by Lost co-creator Damon Lindelof, who took a similarly race-obsessed approach in a sequel series to Alan Moore’s Watchmen.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Dear FRiends,
We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. No spam, no pop-ups, no ad trackers.
If you enjoy using FR and agree it's a worthwhile endeavor, please consider making a contribution today:
Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you,
Jim
By the way I think this author deserves some kind of medal for authoring many great conservative articles over the years.
Explains more why the series is not doing well at all.
Watched it for 2min and was done
Explains more why the series is not doing well at all.“
That does not matter. It is on a streaming platform. They can run this dreadful woke crap and they don’t have to worry about ticket sales or ratings based ad revenue. They can dump this BS among the rest of their content and get the propaganda out.
The series is well-imagined and benefits from Kyle Chandler as an aging, weather worn, jaded superhero. As always, for the sake of enjoyment, one learns to mentally edit out the bits of woke crap.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.