CBS Diversity Showcase is accused of being a “racist mess”

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The program aimed at giving more opportunities to minorities and members of the LGBTQ community “often leaves participants feeling dejected and bullied at the hands of leaders they say view them stereotypically and insist that their work revolve around outdated racist, gender-based, or homophobic tropes,” reports Maria Elena Fernandez. The program has had success with people like Kate McKinnon, Tiffany Haddish and Randall Park, yet Fernandez reports that the program that the showcase “repeatedly defied the program’s primary purpose.”