and we reached out to felicia henderson. - hey, baby. - [pearlena] and a lot of these stories or just stories that she was able to generate from her own life. - it s hard to be the first. it s hard to be a part of a group of the first. i think that as black people, we deserve to be seen as three dimensional characters. we deserve for you to see us with all of our frailties. i don t think that that s negative, i think it s just human. - i m so sorry. come here. - it was also a show where i was the network executive. i was a black network executive. we had a black studio executive. we had black executive producers, black writers, and black cast. and we all understood at that time that, that was a situation that we may, none of us may ever get to be in again. - a lot of times, you don t know when you re making history, you are just in the moment to do the right thing and the best thing that you can at the time.
baby, can you take her when we were at showtime we decided we wanted to adopt soul food into a tv show we thought it was important from a cultural perspective to have someone that can tell the stories ethically, we reached out to felicia henderson. a lot of the stories were stories she generate friday her own life. it is hard to be the first. you know, it is hard to be part of a group of the first. i think that as black people we deserve to be seen as three dimensional characters. we deserve for you to see us with all of our frailty. i don t think it is negativity. i think it is human. come here. [crying] it was a show where i was the network executive. i was a black network executive. we had a black studio executive. we had black executive producers, black writers, black cast. we all understood at that time
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