Shared to her Instagram post, Pompeo’s letter calls out the HFPA for its lack of diverse members, a criticism that has echoed throughout Hollywood since an Los Angeles Times exposé revealed that the industry body has no Black journalists among its 87 members. While the HFPA responded to the backlash noting that they will “immediately work to implement a plan” to up the diversity in its party, the Grey’s Anatomy star proposed her own solution and called on “white Hollywood” to help.
“I would kindly ask, all my white colleagues in this industry, an industry that we love and has granted us enormous privilege….
to pull up, show up and get this issue resolved,” she wrote in the letter.
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