Al Sharpton Meets with Sony Chief Amy Pascal over Racist Emails
*The Rev. Al Sharpton on Thursday said that the jury is still out on where we go with embattled Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal, who came under pressure after a cyberattack exposed her racist email exchange with a Hollywood producer.
However, Sharpton stopped short of calling for Pascals resignation, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Sharpton met with the studio head for 90 minutes Thursday at a Manhattan hotel where they agreed to set up a working group to deal with racial bias and the lack of diversity in the film industry.
Pascals meeting with Sharpton comes a week after she apologized for a leaked email exchange in which she made racially insensitive remarks about President Obama.
In a sidewalk news conference outside the Greenwich Hotel after their meeting, Sharpton said he told Pascal that the tone of the remarks in her hacked emails were the byproduct of an exclusionary, almost all-white hierarchy an environment that still resembles 1950s America.
Pascals leaked exchanges with producer Scott Rudin included remarks that suggested Obamas taste in movies would be limited to films with black themes and casts. Both have apologized for the remarks.
Sharpton said Sony had agreed to assemble a working group that will collaborate with Sharptons National Action Network, the National Urban League, the NAACP and the Black Womens Roundtable on ways to address racial bias in Hollywood.
Urban League President Marc Morial, also present at the discussion, characterized the conversation as candid and productive.
As far as moving forward, our interest is in changing Hollywood, said Morial. Our interest is seeing to it that Sony is on the right side of changing Hollywood.
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Al Sharpton Meets with Sony Chief Amy Pascal over Racist Emails