Marvel-Disney Statement

00:29:59
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Summary

TLDREn aquest vídeo, l'individu aborda les serioses acusacions que s'han presentat contra ell, rebutjant-les de manera rotunda. Explica que ha estat víctima d'una campanya de desprestigi dirigida per membres de Marvel Studios i reflexiona sobre prejudicis i assetjament que ha patit per la seva identitat com a home negre i gai. Fa servir aquest espai per comunicar-se directament amb els seus seguidors, i manifesta la seva intenció de compartir contingut sobre les seves experiències personals i professionals a la seva nova pàgina de OnlyFans. Alcanzant al cor de les seves experiències, destaca la importància de la representació i d'actuar contra l'assetjament i els prejudicis en el món del entreteniment.

Takeaways

  • 🛡️ El parlant rebutja les acusacions com a falses.
  • 👥 Aborda l'assetjament basat en la seva identitat.
  • 📽️ Comparteix contingut exclusiu sobre 'X-Men 97'.
  • ⚖️ Ha implicat un equip legal per gestionar la difamació.
  • 🌈 Defense la importància de la representació en l'entreteniment.

Timeline

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    L'orador dóna la benvinguda als espectadors al seu nou canal d'OnlyFans i explica que és un espai segur per compartir contingut sense por de censura. Aborda serioses acusacions que han estat fetes contra ell, afirmant que són falses i que s'han dissenyat per desacreditar la seva credibilitat.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Comenta que ha estat víctima de difamació i assetjament amb rumors enganyosos i filtracions coordinades per part de membres de l'equip de la producció de 'X-Men 97' i altres executius de Marvel. Es refereix a la seva estimació personal i professional i com va pels seus drets dins de la indústria.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Reflexiona sobre les seves experiències treballant amb altres directius i el conflicte creatiu que ha viscut com a artista negre i queer, i reafirma la seva dedicació a la inclusió i la representació en els mitjans. Expressa la seva frustració pels prejudicis que ha hagut d'enfrontar al llarg de la seva carrera.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    L'orador explica que la seva visió sobre 'X-Men' ha estat desacreditada i que les seves contribucions han estat menystingudes, ressaltant el contrast entre les seves experiències i les de la majoria dels seus companys de treball. Reflexiona sobre el dolor i les lluites emocionals que ha viscut a causa d'aquesta situació.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:29:59

    Finalment, l'orador agraeix el suport de la seva comunitat i anuncia que farà servir aquest canal per compartir contingut sobre la creació de 'X-Men 97', així com altres experiències i temes rellevants, tot destacant la importància de la seva història i la seva lluita per la justícia en la indústria del cinema.

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Video Q&A

  • Quines són les acusacions que s'han fet contra ell?

    Són acusacions de conducta inadequada que considera falses i difamatòries.

  • Com respon a l'assetjament que ha patit?

    Ha implicat un equip legal que rastreja aquests atacs per responsabilitzar els autors.

  • Quins temes vol tractar en la seva nova pàgina de OnlyFans?

    Vol compartir contingut sobre la creació de 'X-Men 97' i la seva experiència en el negoci.

  • Per què creu que Marvel l'ha atacat?

    Creu que ha estat atacat pel seu valent esforç en defensar la representació i per oposar-se a prejudicis dins de l'estudi.

  • Quin impacte ha tingut la seva feina en 'X-Men 97'?

    Afirma que la sèrie ha tingut un impacte positiu en la comunitat, permetent que la gent se senti vista i escoltada.

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    South I had to learn to accept that I am
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    not everybody's coach and that I would
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    by virtue of just being me rope some
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    people the
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    wrong and let's be honest this is true
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    of almost everyone personality conflicts
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    Hollywood I've worked on a lot of series
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    under some showrunners who have imparted
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    some lessons to me that I try to apply
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    on Xmen 97 and now having run a show I
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    look back with a new found appreciation
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    for the struggles those show Runners
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    faced and I think the biggest takeaway
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    I've had is that nobody is
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    perfect we all make
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    mistakes most of us are just trying to
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    do our best and usually Grace and
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    empathy are the best response to
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    conflict and
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    adversity do you think about it that's
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    what x97 season 1 was all
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    about but what's happening with Marvel
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    what's been going on
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    here is unlike anything I've ever
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    experienced in this
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    industry and it takes me back to those
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    days of bigotry and Antiquated
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    Personalities in the
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    South now the way things have also
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    escalated behind the scenes in ways that
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    I haven't been able to talk about as
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    well and on top of the emotional trauma
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    that was inflicted upon me while working
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    working on this Series has taken me to
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    some pretty dark places places I'm not
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    proud of places that would have gotten a
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    whole lot worse had friends and
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    co-workers and family not rallied around
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    me these last few months to remind me of
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    who I
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    am because honestly I'm just defeated
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    and I'm tired and
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    I'm I'm a nobody who made one great show
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    and now I'm a nobody being viciously
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    punished for
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    it and to spend
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    decades fighting for a seat at a table
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    where people like me usually don't get
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    to sit I think I can count the number of
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    black gay show runners or just black
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    show runners in Hollywood on one or two
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    hands to just sacrifice everything and
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    to do so much hard work to get there and
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    then have it all stolen
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    then your character is assassinated
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    because of Lies is
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    just I don't know as easy as it would be
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    to hide away and
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    run I don't think I have a
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    choice we talk a lot about doing better
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    being the change we want to
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    see but that doesn't happen if we
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    remains S no matter how tired or
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    defeated or how scared we may be no
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    matter if our reputation is being
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    dragged through the mud in the public
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    eye ironically this is the central Creed
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    of X-Men right and all those at
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    Marvel and those crew members who
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    colluded with them on X-Men 97 can sleep
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    at night knowing what I know knowing
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    what they've done I can't and I have it
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    because the price of me being silent is
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    other artists walking into that studio
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    thinking that they are safe and
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    protected and later finding out that
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    they are working for individuals who
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    would profit off of shows and movies
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    like Black Panther and X-Men all the
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    while themselves being the very villains
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    those Heroes face and fight every day
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    just to have the right to be their
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    authentic
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    s when I took the job on
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    xent I was told
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    that they valued my perspective and
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    experiences as a queer black
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    man and I made it very clear to them
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    that I was not going to be the black
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    stamp of approval on the
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    project so it was agreed that due to the
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    themes of the X-Men as well as my
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    experience and the just general
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    excitement around my pitch that I would
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    supervise all areas and stages of
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    production now with this I assume the
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    studio would protect me from those who
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    maybe Harbor biases against having
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    someone who looks speaks dresses and
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    thinks like me as their creative leader
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    and
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    boss now why was this important to me
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    guys just turn on the
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    news it's common for minorities in
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    leadership roles to not be taken
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    seriously to have their credentials and
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    their resumés continually questioned by
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    those above and below then and just
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    generally be written off as a diversity
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    hire who didn't earn the
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    job I thought marble would have my back
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    against this stuff instead the studio
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    looked the other way as my identity was
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    weaponized by Marvel execs and flick
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    crew members to undermine me create a
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    humiliating environment where people
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    felt emboldened to use the same dog
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    whistling stereotypes favored by bigots
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    for
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    decades he's big he's intimidating too
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    opinionated angry emotional flamboyant
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    dramatic a
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    pervert when I called these things
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    out they pivoted to attacking my talent
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    accusing me of being too much of a
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    fanboy they openly resented me fighting
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    for the fans fighting for the comics
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    they accused me of playing karaoke with
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    those comics and repeatedly I was told
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    by these individuals that we should be
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    doing our own version of X writing new
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    stories and not adapting those written
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    by old white men by which I could only
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    assume they were referencing individuals
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    like Stan Lee and Chris
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    CLW now my response to this was to try
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    to calmly outline that fans didn't want
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    to see our version of the X-Men they
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    like
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    me want to see the characters that they
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    have loved for decades Faithfully
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    adapted on
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    screen now in return these individuals
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    would then attempt to sabotage me on my
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    job painting me as abusive when I
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    decline to make wholesale changes to
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    characters when I decline to have
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    Jubilee fire plasmoids for her mouth or
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    make gang signs or paint the sky with
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    plasmoids in the shape of middle
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    fingers what was worse and what really
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    just hurt is as I fought for when I felt
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    that fans at audience's
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    want I was then being painted as being
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    uncollaborative
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    too difficult too much of a fanboy and
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    one executive's favorite phrase to fire
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    at me B you need to learn to turn your
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    comic book collector
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    BR they chose to treat me as a child
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    that needed to be
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    scolded even as I was drawing upon 40
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    plus years of dealing with ignorance
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    just like theirs having survived traumas
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    that they cannot even begin to imagine
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    never mind understand or
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    appreciate maybe and yes needless to say
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    look around me I take X-Men very
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    seriously specifically I take this
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    specific Show's Legacy very seriously it
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    saved my life as a kid and I know it did
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    others so when individuals refer to it
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    as just a cartoon that bumped
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    me
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    now luckily as I said before I grew up
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    learning how to spot these types of
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    tactics these Antiquated personality
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    this type of scapegoating and
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    stereotypes and so knowing that and then
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    with the help of the amazingly talented
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    crew on Xmen 97 was still able to get
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    Xmen 87 across the Finish Line even if
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    doing so cost me my job and now my
  • 00:11:37
    reputation so this gets to the bigger
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    larger question the bigger picture what
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    would cause DIY and Marvel to attack me
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    this fat to come at me this hard I'm
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    going to try to break it down as simply
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    as I can while praying within the
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    prayers of some ndas that my lawyer and
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    I are still working
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    out think the simplest way to put it
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    is that the things I witnessed while
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    working at Marvel were Beyond wrong and
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    unethical it is wrong for a crew
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    producer who
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    repeatedly white expains to his
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    boss to respond to his boss's concerns
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    on January 9th of this year with this
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    has Jack to do with me being
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    white it is wrong for that same producer
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    to repeatedly joke to the crew about how
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    he showed my thirst traps on Instagram
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    to his underage son and his kid is
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    wondering do they need to buy me shirts
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    for
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    Christmas it is wrong for this same
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    producer when I notify them that one of
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    our leads is having a potentially
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    exploitative sexual relationship with a
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    PA for this producer to bury my report
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    and actually go to the individual in
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    question and let them know that I had
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    ratted on them so that they can then
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    work together to discredit
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    me it is wrong for Marvel execs to roll
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    her eyes when I raise concerns about
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    being bullied and targeted on account of
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    my identity to tell me to deal with it
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    because these individuals are amazingly
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    talented it is wrong for an artist on
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    the show to repeatedly denounce all men
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    as jerks and to accuse me of failing the
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    cause because I'm keeping a jerk like
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    Cyclops as leader of the
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    tea it is wrong to question my
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    intelligence because my muscles don't
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    make me look like a writer or to talk
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    about how I am fit with two
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    CS it is wrong for Marvel leadership to
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    Pat themselves on the back while giving
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    me notes on a blade script a table of
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    white men laughing as they tell me hey
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    look at us we hired a young Wesley
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    Snipes to write the new blade movie and
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    one of the reasons I wanted to do this
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    video is so that you can see that Wesley
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    light and is
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    wrong when I suggested this past
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    that's been with a beloved queer
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    franchise on that show
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    to be told by Marvel that they wouldn't
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    want to alienate certain
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    audiences it is wrong for their
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    publicity Department to list
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    homosexuality as a hot button issue to
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    avoid alongside school shootings the
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    Gaza conflict and
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    abor it is wrong for Marvel exacts to
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    Foster inappropriate professional
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    relationships with the artist I
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    mentioned prior so as to push others out
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    of the creative process who are not like
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    them based on their
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    identities it is wrong for these two
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    same individuals to write off an
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    interracial relationship between bishop
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    and another white character as creepy
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    and something that belongs on skinx of
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    course these two individuals did not
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    have any issues with far reacer moments
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    in season one involving white characters
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    and what I want to point out here is
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    these Anonymous Scoops that keep on
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    using the word creepy I heard that tur
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    from these individuals multiple
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    times it is wrong for this lead artist
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    to relay to me at a company barbecue in
  • 00:15:41
    2021 that her husband felt that I must
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    get a lot of Dick based upon how I
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    look it is wrong to paint me as a
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    nightmare for advocating for more
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    representation for characters like storm
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    and Bishop and more
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    and if you want to know why they're
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    coming at me so
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    hard why they're risking basically just
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    liy to you it's because this is not even
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    the half of
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    it ultimately the last straw for me was
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    when I got to Atlanta to work on blade
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    and I saw others being treated like
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    me being told that someone needed to
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    crack the wit around
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    here crack the wiip in Atlanta Georgia
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    at Tyler Perry
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    Studios which were formerly Barracks
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    during the Civil
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    War now after witnessing this and far
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    worse incidences that I'm not yet
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    prepared to talk about on blade I
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    relayed my concerns to Marvel on
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    September 6th
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    2022 hoping to work with them to do
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    better urging them to reflect on the
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    biases that we all have in return I was
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    removed from the project in the middle
  • 00:17:06
    of moving to Atlanta for production and
  • 00:17:09
    then had my role on season 2 of X-Men 97
  • 00:17:12
    aggressively marginalized despite the
  • 00:17:14
    Integrity of my work in season 1 and
  • 00:17:17
    this is going to be very important
  • 00:17:19
    because the quality of my work on Xmen
  • 00:17:21
    97 has been spoken about by Marvel
  • 00:17:24
    several times like Brad Winter bom's
  • 00:17:26
    March 15th interview with Entertainment
  • 00:17:28
    Weekly following my exit of the show
  • 00:17:30
    happened again on May 17th also n ew wi
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    winner bomb
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    insisted that they were following my
  • 00:17:38
    blueprint and my vision for season
  • 00:17:41
    2 now this raises a question if the all
  • 00:17:46
    these rumors and this pattern of
  • 00:17:48
    egregious misconduct were
  • 00:17:50
    true why would you have the head of
  • 00:17:53
    Marvel TV making such statements to the
  • 00:17:57
    Press
  • 00:17:58
    when fans reacted badly to me being
  • 00:18:02
    dismissed when they began demanding me
  • 00:18:05
    back why not say all of this
  • 00:18:09
    then but when I spoke out about the
  • 00:18:13
    emys and them stripping me of my Susan 2
  • 00:18:16
    Credits based upon a gay pride post
  • 00:18:19
    then all these narratives
  • 00:18:23
    appear and actually if I really think
  • 00:18:26
    about it the season 2 credit issue and
  • 00:18:28
    stripping is a perfect example of the
  • 00:18:31
    type of manipulative dishonesty they're
  • 00:18:34
    going for
  • 00:18:36
    here Disney has alleged that I breached
  • 00:18:39
    my exit agreement several times breaches
  • 00:18:43
    much like egregious sounds so bad so
  • 00:18:46
    serious I must have done something
  • 00:18:48
    terrible after my exit to make them
  • 00:18:52
    strip me of my credits but here's what
  • 00:18:54
    really
  • 00:18:56
    happened the exit agreement which the
  • 00:18:58
    forced me to sign cered me to sign under
  • 00:19:01
    threat of removing all of my
  • 00:19:03
    credits lacked certain civil rights
  • 00:19:06
    protections that California law requires
  • 00:19:09
    thus rendering it
  • 00:19:11
    invalid my legal team notified them of
  • 00:19:14
    this but still Marvel persisted for
  • 00:19:16
    months to harass and Stu my social media
  • 00:19:20
    looking for any ammo possible to attack
  • 00:19:25
    me now what were these bries though
  • 00:19:29
    they're actually
  • 00:19:31
    referencing it was me talking to you the
  • 00:19:34
    fans was me speaking about pulse after
  • 00:19:37
    episode 5 on Twitter and how much of an
  • 00:19:40
    influence it was on the vision of the
  • 00:19:43
    series it was me at a bar speaking at a
  • 00:19:46
    screening event talking about how I had
  • 00:19:48
    outlined five seasons of the show it was
  • 00:19:50
    me thanking fans on Twitter and
  • 00:19:52
    Instagram for their support highlighting
  • 00:19:54
    casting crew speaking positively about
  • 00:19:57
    Marvel post fan art these were the
  • 00:20:00
    offensive
  • 00:20:03
    breaches and somehow they justify this
  • 00:20:07
    campaign to erase me from the show I
  • 00:20:11
    created with Marvel going so far as to
  • 00:20:13
    actively Blacklist me from thirdparty
  • 00:20:16
    non- Disney ComicCon panels this past
  • 00:20:19
    summer all the way to denying the
  • 00:20:21
    invites and blocking me from attending
  • 00:20:22
    award shows like the enemies which we've
  • 00:20:24
    talked
  • 00:20:26
    about and as I go through all this I I
  • 00:20:29
    really have to
  • 00:20:32
    wonder just how at when season one
  • 00:20:37
    managed to turn out as well as it
  • 00:20:40
    did and then I think about the
  • 00:20:44
    crew the overwhelming majority of the
  • 00:20:46
    crew of X-Men
  • 00:20:48
    97 are some of the most talented
  • 00:20:51
    kindhearted people I have ever met
  • 00:20:54
    they're insanely talented and I still
  • 00:20:57
    feel so honored that they trusted me in
  • 00:20:59
    my vision and worked so
  • 00:21:02
    hard to make it a reality despite
  • 00:21:05
    Marvels and others on the crew who would
  • 00:21:08
    have had us deliver something wholly
  • 00:21:10
    sear for the sake of their
  • 00:21:13
    egos I have received a lot of messages
  • 00:21:17
    from them a lot of messages of support
  • 00:21:20
    and love and they have gotten me through
  • 00:21:23
    some really dark times the dark times I
  • 00:21:26
    was talking about earlier
  • 00:21:29
    but I was also infuriated to
  • 00:21:32
    learn that Marvel publicity internally
  • 00:21:37
    has been actively working to prevent
  • 00:21:39
    them from speaking about their positive
  • 00:21:40
    work experiences oh with
  • 00:21:43
    me going so far as to interrupt
  • 00:21:48
    interviews they are giving to sites like
  • 00:21:51
    IGN enforcing them to re-record answers
  • 00:21:54
    that erase me or
  • 00:21:57
    mitigate my C utions they've been told
  • 00:22:00
    not to give B too much credit or to not
  • 00:22:03
    go overboard with how influential Bo was
  • 00:22:06
    on the
  • 00:22:07
    series and when Marvel tells you to do
  • 00:22:10
    something comes with the implied threat
  • 00:22:13
    of what will happen if you don't and if
  • 00:22:14
    the crew had any doubts they just needed
  • 00:22:16
    to look at what happened and what is
  • 00:22:18
    happening with me right
  • 00:22:20
    now but actually what concerns me the
  • 00:22:23
    most out of these messages I have
  • 00:22:25
    received is the fact that the x97 crew
  • 00:22:28
    are are still being abused just like I
  • 00:22:32
    was abused with impossible pipeline
  • 00:22:35
    demate that endanger their health and
  • 00:22:38
    safety and Studio politics that create a
  • 00:22:41
    toxic environment that turns individuals
  • 00:22:44
    against one another Stokes paranoia to
  • 00:22:47
    ensure
  • 00:22:50
    compliance these people are tired
  • 00:22:53
    they're scared some of them are broken
  • 00:22:55
    and they've been reaching out to me for
  • 00:22:56
    help and we've seen VFX artists try to
  • 00:22:59
    raise awareness about the near criminal
  • 00:23:02
    working condition that Marvel nothing
  • 00:23:05
    has
  • 00:23:06
    changed I had editors falling asleep at
  • 00:23:10
    the wheel I had individuals rapidly
  • 00:23:13
    losing weight having mental breakdowns
  • 00:23:16
    and when I reached out to Marvel about
  • 00:23:18
    these safety issues when I emailed them
  • 00:23:20
    the response I got was the same response
  • 00:23:23
    I got when I reported prejudicial
  • 00:23:26
    conduct more retaliation
  • 00:23:30
    now in the end the
  • 00:23:32
    offenses Marvel and others have leaked
  • 00:23:35
    are designed to distract you from what
  • 00:23:39
    really offended them as someone like me
  • 00:23:43
    dared to speak truth to people like them
  • 00:23:47
    they wanted me to be the black stab of
  • 00:23:49
    approval on this project I declined they
  • 00:23:51
    wanted to erase aspects of my
  • 00:23:53
    personality that clashed or proved
  • 00:23:55
    inconvenient with the misguided
  • 00:23:57
    narratives they want wanted to establish
  • 00:24:00
    I declined they tried to intimidate me
  • 00:24:03
    with both explicit and implied threats I
  • 00:24:05
    was not
  • 00:24:07
    intimidated everything they have done
  • 00:24:08
    since then has been designed not just to
  • 00:24:10
    silence me and smear me but to crush me
  • 00:24:14
    and to remind me to know my
  • 00:24:18
    role so what next thing
  • 00:24:22
    honestly it is so tempting to just drop
  • 00:24:25
    all the names and receipts that I have
  • 00:24:27
    online
  • 00:24:29
    it has been Soul crochet watching the
  • 00:24:32
    very same people who committed the above
  • 00:24:35
    do press and podcast interviews
  • 00:24:37
    screening q&as comic-com panels where
  • 00:24:40
    they claim to be fans while discussing a
  • 00:24:43
    show that denounces the very Prejudice
  • 00:24:46
    and ignorance that they
  • 00:24:50
    pedal honestly this means you have
  • 00:24:52
    actually already seen their faces and
  • 00:24:54
    may already know their names and should
  • 00:24:57
    X-Men 97 win and Emmy you'll see them
  • 00:25:00
    again as some of the faces that take
  • 00:25:02
    that stage to accept an award for a show
  • 00:25:05
    about
  • 00:25:06
    intolerance and identity are the very
  • 00:25:10
    same people who disrespected mine and
  • 00:25:12
    routinely wrote me off as a Dei
  • 00:25:17
    hire tempting as it may be to just drop
  • 00:25:20
    it all online hey that would make me
  • 00:25:23
    know better than them I would prefer to
  • 00:25:26
    present this evidence to Disney and
  • 00:25:29
    Marvel and work with them so that those
  • 00:25:32
    responsible are able to receive what I
  • 00:25:34
    was not a full and fair investigation
  • 00:25:38
    away from the public eye one that is
  • 00:25:41
    confidential and that resembles some
  • 00:25:43
    four of just Ealy process Disney Marvel
  • 00:25:47
    my team and I have already started your
  • 00:25:49
    investigation I have the receipts and
  • 00:25:52
    the
  • 00:25:53
    eyewitnesses so long as you stop
  • 00:25:55
    coercing them to
  • 00:25:59
    you can keep attacking me with lies and
  • 00:26:03
    misinformation and we can become the
  • 00:26:05
    ugliest most annoying version of that
  • 00:26:08
    back and forth tennis ball
  • 00:26:10
    me or you can start acting like a studio
  • 00:26:15
    that is worthy of a show like X-Men
  • 00:26:21
    9s this is meally trying to do the right
  • 00:26:25
    thing and this is Marvel's chance to do
  • 00:26:27
    the same
  • 00:26:28
    just like with the past 4 years I'm
  • 00:26:31
    still willing I'm still here trying to
  • 00:26:35
    help you seize the opportunity to do
  • 00:26:40
    better now while my legal team and
  • 00:26:44
    I work to hold those accountable and we
  • 00:26:47
    will I will be using this page to
  • 00:26:50
    basically give fans and audience is what
  • 00:26:52
    they have been asking me for months
  • 00:26:54
    which is behind the scenes content on
  • 00:26:57
    how
  • 00:26:59
    we created X-Men
  • 00:27:02
    97 as well as being able to just talk
  • 00:27:04
    about other shows I've been on other
  • 00:27:07
    experiences talk about writing as a
  • 00:27:10
    craft and all things nerdy gay and
  • 00:27:14
    black this is also going to give me a
  • 00:27:16
    great opportunity to highlight
  • 00:27:18
    individuals on the show unsung heroes in
  • 00:27:21
    my opinion who have been also erased
  • 00:27:24
    from press events due to Studio politics
  • 00:27:27
    or just generally because they support
  • 00:27:30
    me but what I'll also be doing is
  • 00:27:32
    showing you how I baked the very trauma
  • 00:27:36
    I was experiencing at Marvel into the
  • 00:27:38
    show I was making for them when Magneto
  • 00:27:41
    talks about how they still come for you
  • 00:27:43
    even if you play by their rule when
  • 00:27:45
    storm laments how the more she used her
  • 00:27:48
    gifts to help humans the more they hated
  • 00:27:50
    her I did not write these lines by
  • 00:27:54
    accident this was me copi with being gay
  • 00:27:57
    black back and open about it at Marvel
  • 00:28:02
    Studios now before I end I want to thank
  • 00:28:07
    everybody for just showing up for
  • 00:28:11
    listening I know there will be people
  • 00:28:14
    many people who for various reasons will
  • 00:28:16
    not believe a thing I've
  • 00:28:18
    said who think I'm just pulling the
  • 00:28:21
    diversity
  • 00:28:22
    cards but to those of you who do believe
  • 00:28:26
    and actually now I think about it to
  • 00:28:28
    those of you who don't but still took
  • 00:28:30
    the time to watch all of this thank you
  • 00:28:33
    thank you for hearing me out because
  • 00:28:35
    despite all of this despite what I've
  • 00:28:38
    endured and what I still yet will endure
  • 00:28:41
    the fact that we were able to give fans
  • 00:28:44
    and audiences something like X-Men 97
  • 00:28:47
    something where people just felt so seen
  • 00:28:49
    and heard makes all of this
  • 00:28:53
    work ultimately it's my love for X-Men
  • 00:28:57
    that is compelling me to speak the truth
  • 00:28:59
    today for all knowing that I could
  • 00:29:03
    likely end my
  • 00:29:05
    career one last thing that Bear's
  • 00:29:08
    mentioning across three projects and in
  • 00:29:11
    six years of working for Marvel I was
  • 00:29:13
    never once spoken to disciplined warned
  • 00:29:19
    by
  • 00:29:20
    ARR that is until 4 days after I sent a
  • 00:29:25
    text message to a Marvel employe
  • 00:29:29
    saying that I no longer felt safe at the
  • 00:29:31
    at the studio as a gay black
  • 00:29:35
    man this conversation with HR 4 days
  • 00:29:39
    after I sent that text with the same
  • 00:29:42
    conversation where I was
  • 00:29:45
    dismissed thank you for listening I'm
  • 00:29:48
    really looking forward to the content
  • 00:29:50
    we're going to be providing here to
  • 00:29:52
    discussing all things nerdy and X-Men
  • 00:29:55
    and so I will see you next week thank
  • 00:29:58
    you
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