Justin Simien on ‘Dear White People’ and fighting impostor syndrome

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Justin Simien on ‘Dear White People’ and fighting impostor syndrome

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Published on May 14, 2018, 2:30:00 PM
Total time: 00:28:36

Episode Description

As the series ‘Dear White People’ launches its second season on Netflix, the show about black students grappling with life at a fictional Ivy League university maintains a 100% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Creator Justin Simien tells us about writing things satirically and then watching them become reality. And he explains why for many years, he didn’t believe he could be a part of creating pop culture.

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