In reply to Jasmine (The Real Jasmine).

How is he cheating black people? He is giving them an opportunity. His budgets are small so he can't pay out much salary per gig but he is giving them an opportunity to act and become stars! Gabrey Sidabey was not doing anything before Precious. Now he has employed her on Empire and she has gotten other acting gigs since doing Precious. Monique was a low-pay actress and comedian before Precious. Her salary of 50K was spot on with the types of salaries she had been getting her whole career. She was supposed to take that opportunity and become a big star in hollywood instead of biting off the hand that set her up to be great. You are pretending like Lee is some big time hollywood film director with huge budges but he is the exact opposite. His projects are low budget because his investors only give him a low budget to work with. I don't see people like you complaining about the big time studios (Paramout, Warner Brothers, etc low balling black actors or purposely not hiring them at all. Those are the studios with the major money not Lee). Don't forget Lee's net worth is only 20 mil. He is not cheating anybody but rather doing the exact opposite. The reason he is not liked is because he is gay and exudes a bad attitude. But if you put all that aside he doing good for the black community by hiring black actors. It is the actors' to know their worth. If you are an A or B list black actor then you would not be reading Lee's scripts in the first place. He makes movies for the low-pay actors (new actors or never-made-it-big-in-the-first-place actors).