Atlanta Movie Studio Executive Ryan Millsap’s Racist, Antisemitic Texts

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Ай бұрын

When Ryan Millsap arrived in Atlanta from California a decade ago, the real estate investor set his sights on becoming a major player in Georgia’s booming film industry. In just a few years, he achieved that, opening a movie studio that attracted big-budget productions like “Venom,” Marvel’s alien villain, and “Lovecraft Country,” HBO’s fictional drama centered on the racial terror of Jim Crow America.
As he rose to prominence, Millsap cultivated important relationships with Black leaders and Jewish colleagues and won accolades for his commitment to diversity. But allegations brought by his former attorney present a starkly different picture. In private conversations, court documents allege, Millsap expressed racist and antisemitic views.
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@jstnxprsn Ай бұрын

That apology is way too little, too late.

@brendasmart553 Ай бұрын

This is a classic " I'm sorry we got caught" thus a non-apology.

@WarrenHolly Ай бұрын

This reminds me of the part in the song "backstabbers" when they say "they smile in your face" I can see them with big ole bright smiles when they need a service from someone in the black community. 😁

@DearProfessorRF Ай бұрын

how can you refer to another human being in such as despicable way? Racism has three ingredients: ignorance, self-contempt, and arrogance.

@loveanicefigure Ай бұрын

Some so called racism is an awareness of statistics and experience of the culture in question.

@brendasmart553 Ай бұрын

Glad to be able to say that I dont recognize either of them!!

@voraciousreader3341 Ай бұрын

Missal is such a reprehensible freak that he thinks all he has to do is call the people he secretly hates “dear friends,” and he thinks that will help, that they’ll say, “Oh, that’s OK, bro….we know you didn’t mean it.” If he was an honest “man,” he’d say, “Yeah, that’s who I am. Maybe I’ll try to work on that, maybe I won’t.” At least that would be honest.

@cliveklg7739 Ай бұрын

Where's the reaction from the Black film leaders that worked with him. Seems they are all silent, and will probably still work with him. 😥

@godislove4540 Ай бұрын

These text messages are so disturbing.

@normalizedaudio2481 Ай бұрын

Atlanta animators strike. Animation union..

@get2dachoppa249 Ай бұрын

When people show you who they are…

@JBanks333 Ай бұрын

🌬📢💨 Wh🤔se surprised?

@RosieRoserules Ай бұрын

I can't stand Kevin Hart or The Rock. In fact The Rock is not funny when he kids all the time about eating babies. Especially when the concert last year when there was an infant crowd surfed up to him on stage like a sacrifice it was really creepy and weird. I find both of these men to be very suspicious

@4362mont Ай бұрын

Still not sure why these text messages got used as evidence in a suit between Millsap and his attoney...?

@proy3 Ай бұрын

ProPublica really needs to hire a script writer and video editor. You do some of the most thorough investigative journalism in the US, but your video content game is seriously lacking.

@brendasmart553 Ай бұрын

I'd prefer the actual work they accomplish revealing atrocities around and over us citizens than a streamlined vid alerting us to read their journalism any day!

@proy3 Ай бұрын

@@brendasmart553 You might. But that video content will bring attention to their site. They aren't mutually exclusive.

@jakesabin9706 Ай бұрын

They’re partisan hacks, even without the annoying sheboon they hired to narrate their smear pieces

@voraciousreader3341 Ай бұрын

This is what I _want_ to see! I’m sick and tired of all of the flash crap that has no depth.

@brendasmart553 Ай бұрын

@@voraciousreader3341 Precisely voracious, you further my point beautifully. Keep it simple so we get the real news, not mesmerized from movie theatre tricks instead!