efore making , his adaptation of Percival Everett’s 2001 novel , about a writer who finds unwanted success with a grossly clichéd book about Black inner-city violence, Cord Jefferson knew from experience what the establishment wants from Black storytellers. ‘Within the past few years I’ve gotten notes from. ‘And then when I ask them, “What does it mean to make a character Blacker?” nobody is willing to have that conversation.’
