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Recently Kevin Price, Host of the nationally syndicated Price of Business Show, interviewed filmmaker Warren D. Robinson (image below).
On a recent Price of Business show, Host Kevin Price interviewed Warren D. Robinson, esq.
Just a few short years ago the idea of major tech leaders, news personalities and celebrities cozying up to then President Trump would have been met with major blowback and threats of career cancellation. Trump was considered such a potential threat to society that women organized a massive celebrity-filled “women’s march” soon after he was inaugurated in protest of his election. Now it seems that times have changed. Tech leaders such as Apple’s Tim Cook, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and Amazon leader Jeff Bezos as well as media personalities like MSNBC’S Tim & Mika have all traveled down to Trump’s Florida mansion Mar-a-lago to curry favor with the president-elect. “It really is surprising how normalized Trump seems to be this time around.” Says entertainment executive, producer and attorney Warren D. Robinson, “I’m not sure if it’s because he won in such a commanding way this time around, including the popular vote, or if we as a public have just become so use to Trump’s antics over the years it no longer spurs anyone into action.” Whatever the cause Robinson says the difference this time around is impossible to miss and he fears the consequences, “Meta and Amazon recently gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and no one batted any eye. I remember when companies, like Goya, were put on a Blacklist and boycotted for supporting Trump. You have the democratic mayor of New York practically singing the praise of the incoming Trump administration with very little backlash in perhaps, the most liberal city in America. It really speaks to our changing view of Donald Trump. The danger there is that Trump, in my opinion, has always been one to push things as far as he can; with no one in the public raising the alarm I fear how far he might go this time around.”
According to a statement, “Entertainment executive and producer, Warren D. Robinson believes that when organizations are willing to have open and honest conversations about race and their own bias they can commit to meaningful change. We have seen this recently in the form of Hollywood award shows, particularly, the Grammys and the Academy Awards (Oscars). The Recording Academy and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences have both taken concrete steps to diversify their ranks and address inherit biases in their voting processes. As a result we have the most diverse crop of award winners/nominees, respectively, we’ve ever seen. Contrast that with the scandal and production shutdown currently at CBS’s The Talk, which resulted because a co-host was unable to properly engage in a conversation about race, address her own bias and commit to doing better. ‘The key part to every conversation’ Warren says, ‘starts with listening. Listening and hearing are different and if you are unable to listen then you are unable to have a conversation.’
“Warren D. Robinson, is an avid and accomplished entertainment executive, motivational speaker, host, life coach and award winning producer who created the wildly popular series, Buried by the Bernards, which is currently streaming on Netflix.
Learn more about Warren D. Robinson and his work here.
Connect with Warren D. Robinson on social media:
X/Twitter: @WarrenDRobinson
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