Deante’ Kyle
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It's like, when I got my contract at CNN, like...
Couldn't get on a network for even just an interview.
But when they called me, I was like, I'm a lawyer by training.
I was like, I don't know how to negotiate a commentator contract.
I don't know what to ask for, what not to ask for.
So I called people who had them.
I was like, can you help me out?
I don't know how you get an agent.
And so many people want to be gatekeepers, not just Black people, but people in general want to be gatekeepers.
It's because of insecurity.
It's because people feel like if I have a come up, you can't have a come up.
It's such a minimal and scarce way to live life.
I mean, what you're building is ownership in its own right.
And I think that this is the moment with how media is changing.
Mainstream media will still be there.