Patty Lin says she experienced 'overt racism' for the first time in Cherry's writers' room
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“won [her] over.” But, like that original episode penned by show creator Marc Cherry, things would quickly reveal themselves to be a lot more problematic than they initially seemed.Upon joining the writers’ room for the first season, Lin writes that she quickly discovered she was the only person of color among a staff of ten people. While there was a “honeymoon period,” it didn’t last. “Not with this many big personalities,” she writes. “The biggest was Marc’s.
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