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Joshua Johnson

Joshua Johnson

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I am from South Carolina, and I am actually adopted from two people who are white. I am biracial with black and white – my birth mom was white and my birth dad was black. I haven’t had the pleasure…

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This debuted on the newsletter just this Monday.

This debuted on the newsletter just this Monday.

After listening to the latest episode of @latto_thought I realized how much attention we place on categories that are social as opposed to biological.

This week on the blog, we delve deeper into that subject.

The election is just a week away. The last one wa

The election is just a week away.

The last one was the beginning of a great change, and not the one that many of us were hoping for.

For a lot of us it was an awakening. A realization that we have to stay involved. We can’t simply show up every four years and think our job is done.

We have to make sure our politicians are held accountable. Not just the president, but your senator, council members, local judges.

It all matters and has a great effect on our daily lives.

So go vote, and don’t let anyone take your presence for granted again.

I wrote about this in this week’s newsletter. Bu

I wrote about this in this week’s newsletter. But I think it’s important to recognize how much weight we give to the labels that are racial categories.

It’s just so natural to say that we’re part of this group or that group. And we forget what the labels of Black, White, Asian and all the others truly mean.

The labels are words designed to reinforce social constructs. They are markers of a system designed to subconsciously remind us of one’s worth in society, or lack thereof.

You weren’t born being labeled, you were told that you were one. Or mixture of one.

Now is the time when we stop letting it rule us.

One of the big takeaways I had from the panel we h

One of the big takeaways I had from the panel we had the privilege to take part in, is that we are witnessing a shift in the power dynamic of media.

For the longest time, audiences have been dictated to. We’ve been told what is important and culturally relevant. And as filmmakers of color, we are tempted to join that ivory tower where what we think matters more than what people value.

But now everyone has options. If there’s something we want to watch, odds are we can find it. But if not, it’s never been easier to create.

Which is changing the relationship between creator and audience to one of service.

As a creator of color, your highest mission is to provide value to your audience, not have them provide it to you. It’s to be someone voice, not your own echo chamber.

We’re now in a time of change. A time, as Maya Angelou said-

“Precisely the time when artists go to work”

It’s a big word, but a crucial one. Seeing imag

It’s a big word, but a crucial one.

Seeing images that break down stereotypes goes a long way to get increasing understanding and empathy.

Media and story help us understand the world around us. And we’ve gone too long accepting the idea that what we see doesn’t need to reflect the world as it is:

One where race and culture are vastly different and also increasingly intertwined.

The more people sharing stories of who we really are, the more the old ways of understanding race will fall apart.

And the better off we’ll all be.

There’s a lot going on right now that appears gr

There’s a lot going on right now that appears grim.

A pandemic, the US election, the economy. Sometimes it can seem like for every step forward we are somehow regressing.

But this week, click the Link in bio and let’s take a look at how one factor has changed for people of color:

Our Presence.

It may go unnoticed, but in America you can no longer ignore us. The world is a changing place. And our increased presence is a part of what will become a Blended Future.

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