Josh Wolf
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And sitting in there, and the plate just gets shot out of a can.
It just starts off...
We got a black attorney.
We have a white attorney.
We have a black sort of junior attorney, young woman.
We have a white male who's accused of raping his black mistress.
And there's allegations and there's a lot of, you know, you have preconceived notions about me because I'm a black woman.
I hired you not because you were black.
I hired you because you were smart.
But you also knew you were taking a chance because you hire a black person and you can't, you know, if you fire them, there could be allegations of racism.
And it really did a nice job of sort of capturing what I think all of us go through on a daily basis where you have these thoughts.
But for every thought that Mamet presents through the actor where you went, yeah, that's right.
He then provides a counter thought to it as seen through the eyes of the black female.
Yeah, because you're like, yeah, that's right.
That big, fat, white attorney, he can't hire black people.
He wants to, but he can get accused of racism.
He will never be able to fire him.
He'll get wrongful termination.
And then you hear, you know, through now the black person is going to tell you how they see it.
And you go, oh, yeah, yeah, I could see that.