https://www.breitbart.com/ente...ducer-for-objecting/

TV weatherman Al Roker and his production company have been sued by a producer who alleges he was fired after objecting to the company’s failure to implement diversity initiatives for an upcoming PBS animated show.

The suit alleges black writers were brought in merely to touch up scripts written by white staffers in order to give the appearance of a diverse writers room, according to multiple reports.

Bill Schultz — whose long career in TV animation includes The Simpsons and King of the Hill — filed the suit this week in a New York federal court, claiming Al Roker Entertainment “callously disregarded” a diversity, equity and inclusion program mandated by PBS for the show Weather Hunters.

Schultz’s lawsuit contends that Al Roker Entertainment executives had complete authority to manage the series and ended up treating PBS’s DEI Policy as “discretionary and an obstacle to be circumvented.”

The filing states: “Instead of giving the chances to BIPOC writers as had been the plan, the story editor, repeating a strategy previously advocated and backed by Al Roker Entertainment management in writing, wanted to have ‘non-BIPOC’ writers write the stories, and then bring on a ‘BIPOC’ writer and after the stories/episodes [were] shaped, they could be ‘hand[ed] off to BIPOC writers.”

Schultz alleges Roker’s company treated DEI as a “box to be checked in the most expedient manner possible” and as an “impediment to business as usual.”

DEI has quickly become a core corporate value in Hollywood. Studios including the Walt Disney Company have implemented DEI policies in its hiring practices on both the corporate level as well as in terms of creative talent for TV show and movies.

Even the Academy Awards has implemented DEI quotas for all best picture contenders.

it is no longer about "the best", it is about "check the box"

https://www.hollywoodreporter....failures-1235875239/

The lawsuit, filed in New York federal court on Tuesday, alleges executives at Al Roker Entertainment “callously disregarded” a diversity, equity and inclusion program, commonly called DEI, mandated by PBS, which covered the bulk of the production expenses for animated series Weather Hunters, by attempting to have Black writers touch up scripts written by white scribes to give the appearance of a diverse writers room.

Schultz was served a notice that he was in breach of his contract for failures related to staffing, among other things, shortly after an August 2023 meeting in which the show’s story editor stated that he “could not meet the production schedule if BIPOC writers were used to write the stories” and that “he would need to hire experienced non-BIPOC writers,” the lawsuit alleges.

How long before they tell us what they really want? To wit: that they don't want Whitey to get any part of this production, cast them into poverty and hopeless despair before we kill them all!

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Originally posted by architect:
How long before they tell us what they really want? To wit: that they don't want Whitey to get any part of this production, cast them into poverty and hopeless despair before we kill them all!

Um… in this case it was almost literally exactly the opposite of what you suggest.

It was a black man’s company that wanted and needed whitey to do the work.

It was a white male producer who claims that the black man wasn’t using enough DIE in the company.

It's an odd case. You'd expect it to be the other way around.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Schultz was served a notice that he was in breach of his contract for failures related to staffing, among other things, shortly after an August 2023 meeting in which the show’s story editor stated that he “could not meet the production schedule if BIPOC writers were used to write the stories” and that “he would need to hire experienced non-BIPOC writers,” the lawsuit alleges.

So the guy responsible for getting the script(s) written says that BIPOC writers were not capable of getting the job done on time. Would like to see examples of the writing that was deemed inadequate...

did not know Roker was anything more than a big mouth weather guy,