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Troy I know for a fact that is why I never "Blew up". When I got my first agent, it was right out of the MFA program. Renee Swindle had capitalized on the sista girl fiction and since she had come out of San Diego State everyone thought I was next in line to be the new Eric Jerome Dickey or Omar Tyree. Everything was great until my agent actually read the novels I'd written. Although they started like those writer's books, the evolved into very serious texts. I had an offer from a publisher and my agent told me to change the ending of my book. I refused because I said it would change the whole idea of the novel. I lost the little deal she had worked out. She told me to start writing a street lit novel and I refused. She basically told me she couldn't represent me if I wasn't interested in making money first. That was over ten years ago. This feedback on Facebook is incredible. The ability to move people from Facebook is a losing battle. I had a lady (bible thumper) who confronted me on a thread today about Scandal. She said it was the most immoral show in the history of television. That's why she can't watch it. Another guy said it doesn't do anything for his soul. I'm thinking to myself, it's effing TV!!!!!!!! I tell her that while it's hard to see a sister throw herself at a married White president, the show isn't bad at all. I also state that if you analyze that it's written by a black woman and has a black female lead, simply stated the show is ground breaking and is creating more opportunities for Black women in Hollywood. You have Taraji on Person of Interest, beherre on Sleepy Hollow and Scandal has allowed Gabrielle Union to have her own show albeit not on a major network, but Scandal is important and it's good. I'm rambling, but you know what I mean. We are breaking our necks to get people to move away and it's just a struggle that is falling flat. In the terms of the 5% we are basically the 5% that understand what is happening and there is 10% that is aware, but lost in the jungle and the 85% are deaf, dumb and blind.