Your TV show Black and White which is on cable right now tackles race issues; we have watched certain people have their music etc, their ideas shut down for embracing and discussing racial issues by media outlets, was your show welcomed with open arms or did you have problems finding a home for it?

FX was with it from jump, they are just into doing stuff that is cutting edge and it was kind of easy at this point to get a show like that on the network, you know if FX blows up and becomes the new HBO it would probably be harder to get it on there, you know it is kind of like Blue Line Films, you know struggling to try and make a name for themselves it is easy to make movies like Friday but when they establish themselves it is hard to make those kind of movies.

So you got in at the right time?

Yeah we did.

Was the idea for the show yours?

It was collaboration between us, RJ Cutler and guy over at FX. They wanted to do a show that explored race and it was like ‘how can we do that?’ So we brainstormed and came up with that.

The School of Ethical Culture recently released a report that showed that when it comes to matters of race and change here in the US, it is the younger generations that are more adaptable to change as opposed to the older. Did you find this in the making of the show?

Yeah I mean the young people they wanted to kind of participated or really wanted to dismiss race as a factor in their minds, so in some ways it was easier for them to jump in with both feet, you know one of the kids jumped in with both feet and one of the kids just thought it was stupid. He and his friends didn’t see color, either you a cool white guy or you a cool black guy and he thought the whole world was stupid. His parents were really trying to show him that it wasn’t something that you have to go looking for, it’s something that is going to come up and find you one day and you have to be prepared for when it do.

Did the show do what it was supposed to do in your estimations?

It definitely got people talking about race and talking about situations, you have people understanding certain things that happen in this country behind closed doors, it opened eyes and educate that there is a difference, people are treated differently because of their skin color, it is just a fact.