So I would send him letters a couple of times a year until I was about 8 or 9, and he would always send them back. And so for years and years and years, I just thought of this is just - that's my backstory. And he was really moved by the story and wanted to include it somehow in the show. But those men whose actions exhibit in softer – sometimes even socially acceptable – ways their belief that women should pay them deference (or at least quietly tolerate their varied hostilities) face much less opprobrium. He sort of finished her divorce proceedings, and she left his office, and when - by the time she got home, there was a message on her answering machine from him, saying now that we are no longer working together, now that you're no longer a client, I was wonder if you'd go out to dinner with me. And so he - I think he started to let go a little bit and started to listen to everybody and understand that what he wanted to do with the show - what he said is that he didn't want to use the show to say what he wanted to say. GROSS: Thinking like, wow, that's not a great choice when you're heading to the hospital. And I think that - and I was also in the South, which I had not experienced before, and seeing Confederate flags. People think that the things that happen are just part of their lives. When we cut off, we may do so from anger but often we may be avoiding feelings of discomfort. He came into the room on Day 1 and said that he wanted the Tulsa massacre to be a part of the show in some way. And that made me feel like even more of an outsider. And so he was a big advocate for me going there. And that's where I spent the rest of my childhood. Beware a bro who knows what he 'deserves': the friendzone is only purgatory if women's decisions are less valid, Fri 18 Jul 2014 11.30 BST JEFFERSON: It is not anywhere in the graphic novel. Angela also experiences how her grandfather went on to become a police officer in the 1930s who faced brutality from white supremacists, some of whom were his fellow cops. "This Extraordinary Being" (with Damon Lindelof) It takes our dignity. But it wasn't something that I thought of, really, intellectually, until recently. And you open it by talking about how - and I want to frame this by saying, I think we're all feeling kind of vulnerable now because of the pandemic. And I decided to go. He's one of the nominees for writing Episode 6. JEFFERSON: So a friend said to me that the thing that really made them think that it was all made up when they watched the first episode was the planes firebombing the buildings.

But there was certainly a lot of disagreement and discussion as the months went on. I've asked myself what would I do in a situation like that, and I don't know. He served as a writer of HBO's Watchmen. And your mother is white, and she - and your father is Black. He even explored buying one at one point in time because my dad lives in Saudi Arabia, and I believe that there's a pretty booming organ market in those kinds of places. And I go to a lot of therapy (laughter). It is complicated. JEFFERSON: Yeah. GROSS: You could say it's hard to be shocked by anything in terms of the racist aspect of America's history. Many people would find this kind of behavior creepy and unacceptable in real life, but we all know how the story ends in Hollywood: Lloyd finally “won” the girl back, because his annoying, stalkery antics helped prove he deserved his prize.

Court Records found View. GROSS: You know, in your essay about your mother and her cancer diagnosis, you write, (reading) the world takes from us relentlessly. I'm Terry Gross. It can be difficult to experience the vulnerability of asking for anything from an ex; cutoff is easier than the possibility of rejection.”. He's not a big character by any means, but he is the original superhero. If you're just joining us, my guest is Cord Jefferson. BIANCULLI: Cord Jefferson is nominated for an Emmy for writing Episode 6 of the HBO series "Watchmen."

He's nominated for writing Episode 6 with the showrunner Damon Lindelof. So the writers' room for "Watchmen" was a diverse writers' room. This is FRESH AIR. That's why I volunteered immediately, is because it felt like he'd given me life. Of those who survived, only two stayed with the force - a Black cop, Detective Angela Abar, played by Regina King, and a white cop, Police Chief Judd Crawford, played by Don Johnson. But there's a sort of really haunting - she had a reconciliation with her brother shortly before she died, I would say about two or three years before she was diagnosed, who had sort of - she'd also had a falling out with because of all this turmoil with her dad. He loved "Watchmen" when he was a kid. I go to a whole lot of therapy. I mean, it's one thing not to get the love that you want from a relative; it's another thing to be completely rejected and making a conscious decision to never even meet you. JEFFERSON: Yeah. (SOUNDBITE OF KENNY BARRON'S "SWAMP SALLY"). JEFFERSON: Yeah. It takes our honesty, and it takes our credulity. And so I no longer had that stupid-kid mentality of, like, life is stupid, and I don't care if I die early - in fact, that I want to live a long life and that there's work that I want to get done and things that I want to achieve before I die. One of the things that is also in the original text is that Hooded Justice, his costume is this black mask, and he has a noose around his neck also. That idea came to us via Damon Lindelof, the creator of the show. It's a lot of third-rail issues. GROSS: And you describe, like - you figure, well, OK, I'll take an Uber to the hospital, and they say, no, no, no, this is - you don't take an Uber; like, you're taking an ambulance. Cord Jefferson wrote the episode of the HBO superhero series in which the main character goes back in time and to relive the trauma of the 1921 Tulsa … To look at the photos – even satirically – and see “horrible” experiences, you have to think it’s horrible to see a man interacting with a woman when the end result won’t be them fucking. And congratulations on your Emmy nomination and all the others that "Watchmen" has received. Somewhere along the way, she felt it also, and we began to replace “I” with “we” in sentences, like, “When we finally buy a house.” One day I commented that I hoped any child of mine would be blessed with a strong chin, and she said, “It absolutely will – look at our chins.”. And who that Black man was going to be, we didn't know, and we worked backwards from there. I think that when we initially got into the room, Damon - the material is incredibly precious to Damon for any number of reasons. JEFFERSON: Yeah. Of course, the men who think they’re being brave in the name of love rarely stop to consider who that “bravery” may hurt, because begging for sex or a relationship despite a woman’s expressed wishes is a beloved staple of pop culture. Rather, the young men it depicts are shown laughing, exchanging gifts, hugging and goofing off with various young women, apparently their friends. It's - well, it felt like I was giving back. It just made perfect sense. In recent months, it’s been hard to escape the spectacle of other men talking about what they deserve – and what women have supposedly taken from them. So he came into the room saying he wanted to use it, but how we were actually going to incorporate it, we didn't know. GROSS: Were there any personal experiences you drew on in writing the series? Cord Jefferson is a writer living in Los Angeles. I guess the hate ran so deep that it prevented him from doing it. The article – all 3,800 words of it – later continued, “Sometimes we cut off because we’re trying to get the person to do something we feel too vulnerable to ask them to do; for instance, we actually want them to apologize, but we’re afraid to ask. Cord Jefferson This article is more than 6 years old Beware a bro who knows what he 'deserves': the friendzone is only purgatory if women's decisions are less valid

And when I had flowers delivered. The drug contains the person's harvested memories so he or she can relive them. And, you know, a lot of people would have a variety of different opinions about all those things. The consequences are minimal, if any. Cord Jefferson is a writer and editor. And Tucson is pretty homogenous. Men whose exes broke up with them and then cut them off deserve explanations as to why, as detailed as they want, for as long as they want them – regardless of the fact that their frightening post-breakup behavior should be explanation enough. He takes the hood that was used when he was being lynched and - this is going to be complicated.

She saw him right before he died.

So I think that was me not fully understanding that what I was actually feeling was anger. Like, I think the viciousness and the violence with which all of this was enacted was shocking to me. He was a writer on the HBO series "Watchmen," which is nominated for 26 Emmys, more than any other show. GROSS: One of your personal essays is about how you donated a kidney to your father in 2009, when your father was living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And so I think that that was just - it was me being angry but not understanding that I was angry. You're talking about things like reparations. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. I didn’t know it at first, but the feeling slowly grew within me, until one day – around year two – I looked up and didn’t see “my girlfriend”, but the person with whom I was destined to spend the rest of my life. But for me, the more I thought about it, the more I thought that it made perfect sense for a Black person to be the first superhero. For proof of this, look no further than Elliot Rodger, who will forever serve as a reminder that the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” is wildly inaccurate in one quite obvious way. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. AKA: cord muryo jefferson. And you said that you think people should be open and direct about wanting to hire a diverse writers' room or a diverse newsroom. I was a very, very angry young man in college. I remember that as - you know, when he sent back the letters, I would ask my mom, you know, why doesn't he like me? I still knew I was going to marry her when I called her a dozen times after our last tearful goodbye. Yeah, absolutely. But I have no idea what they said to each other on his deathbed, but I know that she flew back to Ohio to see him. Originally broadcast Aug. 13, 2020. GROSS: Is it something you thought about a lot before? I remember telling a girl I dated in college once that I’d like to be dead by fifty. These days, after several years apart, my ex – the one I was once certain I would marry – does actually text me on occasion, usually to wish me a happy birthday. He doesn't know you. And I co-wrote it with a friend of mine named Max Read, who also used to work at Gawker. You know, once you get people in there, you need to be willing to drop your ego and let your guard down and actually listen to people. Instead, my most powerful memory from that trip is an afternoon spent at the beach during a brief stop in Los Angeles. This is FRESH AIR.

I think for a lot of my early life, I spent feeling miserable all the time and not really understanding why I felt miserable. The TV series nominated for the most Emmys this year, 26 of them, is the HBO drama series "Watchmen."

So I would send him letters a couple of times a year until I was about 8 or 9, and he would always send them back. And so for years and years and years, I just thought of this is just - that's my backstory. And he was really moved by the story and wanted to include it somehow in the show. But those men whose actions exhibit in softer – sometimes even socially acceptable – ways their belief that women should pay them deference (or at least quietly tolerate their varied hostilities) face much less opprobrium. He sort of finished her divorce proceedings, and she left his office, and when - by the time she got home, there was a message on her answering machine from him, saying now that we are no longer working together, now that you're no longer a client, I was wonder if you'd go out to dinner with me. And so he - I think he started to let go a little bit and started to listen to everybody and understand that what he wanted to do with the show - what he said is that he didn't want to use the show to say what he wanted to say. GROSS: Thinking like, wow, that's not a great choice when you're heading to the hospital. And I think that - and I was also in the South, which I had not experienced before, and seeing Confederate flags. People think that the things that happen are just part of their lives. When we cut off, we may do so from anger but often we may be avoiding feelings of discomfort. He came into the room on Day 1 and said that he wanted the Tulsa massacre to be a part of the show in some way. And that made me feel like even more of an outsider. And so he was a big advocate for me going there. And that's where I spent the rest of my childhood. Beware a bro who knows what he 'deserves': the friendzone is only purgatory if women's decisions are less valid, Fri 18 Jul 2014 11.30 BST JEFFERSON: It is not anywhere in the graphic novel. Angela also experiences how her grandfather went on to become a police officer in the 1930s who faced brutality from white supremacists, some of whom were his fellow cops. "This Extraordinary Being" (with Damon Lindelof) It takes our dignity. But it wasn't something that I thought of, really, intellectually, until recently. And you open it by talking about how - and I want to frame this by saying, I think we're all feeling kind of vulnerable now because of the pandemic. And I decided to go. He's one of the nominees for writing Episode 6. JEFFERSON: So a friend said to me that the thing that really made them think that it was all made up when they watched the first episode was the planes firebombing the buildings.

But there was certainly a lot of disagreement and discussion as the months went on. I've asked myself what would I do in a situation like that, and I don't know. He served as a writer of HBO's Watchmen. And your mother is white, and she - and your father is Black. He even explored buying one at one point in time because my dad lives in Saudi Arabia, and I believe that there's a pretty booming organ market in those kinds of places. And I go to a lot of therapy (laughter). It is complicated. JEFFERSON: Yeah. GROSS: You could say it's hard to be shocked by anything in terms of the racist aspect of America's history. Many people would find this kind of behavior creepy and unacceptable in real life, but we all know how the story ends in Hollywood: Lloyd finally “won” the girl back, because his annoying, stalkery antics helped prove he deserved his prize.

Court Records found View. GROSS: You know, in your essay about your mother and her cancer diagnosis, you write, (reading) the world takes from us relentlessly. I'm Terry Gross. It can be difficult to experience the vulnerability of asking for anything from an ex; cutoff is easier than the possibility of rejection.”. He's not a big character by any means, but he is the original superhero. If you're just joining us, my guest is Cord Jefferson. BIANCULLI: Cord Jefferson is nominated for an Emmy for writing Episode 6 of the HBO series "Watchmen."

He's nominated for writing Episode 6 with the showrunner Damon Lindelof. So the writers' room for "Watchmen" was a diverse writers' room. This is FRESH AIR. That's why I volunteered immediately, is because it felt like he'd given me life. Of those who survived, only two stayed with the force - a Black cop, Detective Angela Abar, played by Regina King, and a white cop, Police Chief Judd Crawford, played by Don Johnson. But there's a sort of really haunting - she had a reconciliation with her brother shortly before she died, I would say about two or three years before she was diagnosed, who had sort of - she'd also had a falling out with because of all this turmoil with her dad. He loved "Watchmen" when he was a kid. I go to a whole lot of therapy. I mean, it's one thing not to get the love that you want from a relative; it's another thing to be completely rejected and making a conscious decision to never even meet you. JEFFERSON: Yeah. (SOUNDBITE OF KENNY BARRON'S "SWAMP SALLY"). JEFFERSON: Yeah. It takes our honesty, and it takes our credulity. And so I no longer had that stupid-kid mentality of, like, life is stupid, and I don't care if I die early - in fact, that I want to live a long life and that there's work that I want to get done and things that I want to achieve before I die. One of the things that is also in the original text is that Hooded Justice, his costume is this black mask, and he has a noose around his neck also. That idea came to us via Damon Lindelof, the creator of the show. It's a lot of third-rail issues. GROSS: And you describe, like - you figure, well, OK, I'll take an Uber to the hospital, and they say, no, no, no, this is - you don't take an Uber; like, you're taking an ambulance. Cord Jefferson wrote the episode of the HBO superhero series in which the main character goes back in time and to relive the trauma of the 1921 Tulsa … To look at the photos – even satirically – and see “horrible” experiences, you have to think it’s horrible to see a man interacting with a woman when the end result won’t be them fucking. And congratulations on your Emmy nomination and all the others that "Watchmen" has received. Somewhere along the way, she felt it also, and we began to replace “I” with “we” in sentences, like, “When we finally buy a house.” One day I commented that I hoped any child of mine would be blessed with a strong chin, and she said, “It absolutely will – look at our chins.”. And who that Black man was going to be, we didn't know, and we worked backwards from there. I think that when we initially got into the room, Damon - the material is incredibly precious to Damon for any number of reasons. JEFFERSON: Yeah. Of course, the men who think they’re being brave in the name of love rarely stop to consider who that “bravery” may hurt, because begging for sex or a relationship despite a woman’s expressed wishes is a beloved staple of pop culture. Rather, the young men it depicts are shown laughing, exchanging gifts, hugging and goofing off with various young women, apparently their friends. It's - well, it felt like I was giving back. It just made perfect sense. In recent months, it’s been hard to escape the spectacle of other men talking about what they deserve – and what women have supposedly taken from them. So he came into the room saying he wanted to use it, but how we were actually going to incorporate it, we didn't know. GROSS: Were there any personal experiences you drew on in writing the series? Cord Jefferson is a writer living in Los Angeles. I guess the hate ran so deep that it prevented him from doing it. The article – all 3,800 words of it – later continued, “Sometimes we cut off because we’re trying to get the person to do something we feel too vulnerable to ask them to do; for instance, we actually want them to apologize, but we’re afraid to ask. Cord Jefferson This article is more than 6 years old Beware a bro who knows what he 'deserves': the friendzone is only purgatory if women's decisions are less valid

And when I had flowers delivered. The drug contains the person's harvested memories so he or she can relive them. And, you know, a lot of people would have a variety of different opinions about all those things. The consequences are minimal, if any. Cord Jefferson is a writer and editor. And Tucson is pretty homogenous. Men whose exes broke up with them and then cut them off deserve explanations as to why, as detailed as they want, for as long as they want them – regardless of the fact that their frightening post-breakup behavior should be explanation enough. He takes the hood that was used when he was being lynched and - this is going to be complicated.

She saw him right before he died.

So I think that was me not fully understanding that what I was actually feeling was anger. Like, I think the viciousness and the violence with which all of this was enacted was shocking to me. He was a writer on the HBO series "Watchmen," which is nominated for 26 Emmys, more than any other show. GROSS: One of your personal essays is about how you donated a kidney to your father in 2009, when your father was living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And so I think that that was just - it was me being angry but not understanding that I was angry. You're talking about things like reparations. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. I didn’t know it at first, but the feeling slowly grew within me, until one day – around year two – I looked up and didn’t see “my girlfriend”, but the person with whom I was destined to spend the rest of my life. But for me, the more I thought about it, the more I thought that it made perfect sense for a Black person to be the first superhero. For proof of this, look no further than Elliot Rodger, who will forever serve as a reminder that the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” is wildly inaccurate in one quite obvious way. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. AKA: cord muryo jefferson. And you said that you think people should be open and direct about wanting to hire a diverse writers' room or a diverse newsroom. I was a very, very angry young man in college. I remember that as - you know, when he sent back the letters, I would ask my mom, you know, why doesn't he like me? I still knew I was going to marry her when I called her a dozen times after our last tearful goodbye. Yeah, absolutely. But I have no idea what they said to each other on his deathbed, but I know that she flew back to Ohio to see him. Originally broadcast Aug. 13, 2020. GROSS: Is it something you thought about a lot before? I remember telling a girl I dated in college once that I’d like to be dead by fifty. These days, after several years apart, my ex – the one I was once certain I would marry – does actually text me on occasion, usually to wish me a happy birthday. He doesn't know you. And I co-wrote it with a friend of mine named Max Read, who also used to work at Gawker. You know, once you get people in there, you need to be willing to drop your ego and let your guard down and actually listen to people. Instead, my most powerful memory from that trip is an afternoon spent at the beach during a brief stop in Los Angeles. This is FRESH AIR.

I think for a lot of my early life, I spent feeling miserable all the time and not really understanding why I felt miserable. The TV series nominated for the most Emmys this year, 26 of them, is the HBO drama series "Watchmen."

So I would send him letters a couple of times a year until I was about 8 or 9, and he would always send them back. And so for years and years and years, I just thought of this is just - that's my backstory. And he was really moved by the story and wanted to include it somehow in the show. But those men whose actions exhibit in softer – sometimes even socially acceptable – ways their belief that women should pay them deference (or at least quietly tolerate their varied hostilities) face much less opprobrium. He sort of finished her divorce proceedings, and she left his office, and when - by the time she got home, there was a message on her answering machine from him, saying now that we are no longer working together, now that you're no longer a client, I was wonder if you'd go out to dinner with me. And so he - I think he started to let go a little bit and started to listen to everybody and understand that what he wanted to do with the show - what he said is that he didn't want to use the show to say what he wanted to say. GROSS: Thinking like, wow, that's not a great choice when you're heading to the hospital. And I think that - and I was also in the South, which I had not experienced before, and seeing Confederate flags. People think that the things that happen are just part of their lives. When we cut off, we may do so from anger but often we may be avoiding feelings of discomfort. He came into the room on Day 1 and said that he wanted the Tulsa massacre to be a part of the show in some way. And that made me feel like even more of an outsider. And so he was a big advocate for me going there. And that's where I spent the rest of my childhood. Beware a bro who knows what he 'deserves': the friendzone is only purgatory if women's decisions are less valid, Fri 18 Jul 2014 11.30 BST JEFFERSON: It is not anywhere in the graphic novel. Angela also experiences how her grandfather went on to become a police officer in the 1930s who faced brutality from white supremacists, some of whom were his fellow cops. "This Extraordinary Being" (with Damon Lindelof) It takes our dignity. But it wasn't something that I thought of, really, intellectually, until recently. And you open it by talking about how - and I want to frame this by saying, I think we're all feeling kind of vulnerable now because of the pandemic. And I decided to go. He's one of the nominees for writing Episode 6. JEFFERSON: So a friend said to me that the thing that really made them think that it was all made up when they watched the first episode was the planes firebombing the buildings.

But there was certainly a lot of disagreement and discussion as the months went on. I've asked myself what would I do in a situation like that, and I don't know. He served as a writer of HBO's Watchmen. And your mother is white, and she - and your father is Black. He even explored buying one at one point in time because my dad lives in Saudi Arabia, and I believe that there's a pretty booming organ market in those kinds of places. And I go to a lot of therapy (laughter). It is complicated. JEFFERSON: Yeah. GROSS: You could say it's hard to be shocked by anything in terms of the racist aspect of America's history. Many people would find this kind of behavior creepy and unacceptable in real life, but we all know how the story ends in Hollywood: Lloyd finally “won” the girl back, because his annoying, stalkery antics helped prove he deserved his prize.

Court Records found View. GROSS: You know, in your essay about your mother and her cancer diagnosis, you write, (reading) the world takes from us relentlessly. I'm Terry Gross. It can be difficult to experience the vulnerability of asking for anything from an ex; cutoff is easier than the possibility of rejection.”. He's not a big character by any means, but he is the original superhero. If you're just joining us, my guest is Cord Jefferson. BIANCULLI: Cord Jefferson is nominated for an Emmy for writing Episode 6 of the HBO series "Watchmen."

He's nominated for writing Episode 6 with the showrunner Damon Lindelof. So the writers' room for "Watchmen" was a diverse writers' room. This is FRESH AIR. That's why I volunteered immediately, is because it felt like he'd given me life. Of those who survived, only two stayed with the force - a Black cop, Detective Angela Abar, played by Regina King, and a white cop, Police Chief Judd Crawford, played by Don Johnson. But there's a sort of really haunting - she had a reconciliation with her brother shortly before she died, I would say about two or three years before she was diagnosed, who had sort of - she'd also had a falling out with because of all this turmoil with her dad. He loved "Watchmen" when he was a kid. I go to a whole lot of therapy. I mean, it's one thing not to get the love that you want from a relative; it's another thing to be completely rejected and making a conscious decision to never even meet you. JEFFERSON: Yeah. (SOUNDBITE OF KENNY BARRON'S "SWAMP SALLY"). JEFFERSON: Yeah. It takes our honesty, and it takes our credulity. And so I no longer had that stupid-kid mentality of, like, life is stupid, and I don't care if I die early - in fact, that I want to live a long life and that there's work that I want to get done and things that I want to achieve before I die. One of the things that is also in the original text is that Hooded Justice, his costume is this black mask, and he has a noose around his neck also. That idea came to us via Damon Lindelof, the creator of the show. It's a lot of third-rail issues. GROSS: And you describe, like - you figure, well, OK, I'll take an Uber to the hospital, and they say, no, no, no, this is - you don't take an Uber; like, you're taking an ambulance. Cord Jefferson wrote the episode of the HBO superhero series in which the main character goes back in time and to relive the trauma of the 1921 Tulsa … To look at the photos – even satirically – and see “horrible” experiences, you have to think it’s horrible to see a man interacting with a woman when the end result won’t be them fucking. And congratulations on your Emmy nomination and all the others that "Watchmen" has received. Somewhere along the way, she felt it also, and we began to replace “I” with “we” in sentences, like, “When we finally buy a house.” One day I commented that I hoped any child of mine would be blessed with a strong chin, and she said, “It absolutely will – look at our chins.”. And who that Black man was going to be, we didn't know, and we worked backwards from there. I think that when we initially got into the room, Damon - the material is incredibly precious to Damon for any number of reasons. JEFFERSON: Yeah. Of course, the men who think they’re being brave in the name of love rarely stop to consider who that “bravery” may hurt, because begging for sex or a relationship despite a woman’s expressed wishes is a beloved staple of pop culture. Rather, the young men it depicts are shown laughing, exchanging gifts, hugging and goofing off with various young women, apparently their friends. It's - well, it felt like I was giving back. It just made perfect sense. In recent months, it’s been hard to escape the spectacle of other men talking about what they deserve – and what women have supposedly taken from them. So he came into the room saying he wanted to use it, but how we were actually going to incorporate it, we didn't know. GROSS: Were there any personal experiences you drew on in writing the series? Cord Jefferson is a writer living in Los Angeles. I guess the hate ran so deep that it prevented him from doing it. The article – all 3,800 words of it – later continued, “Sometimes we cut off because we’re trying to get the person to do something we feel too vulnerable to ask them to do; for instance, we actually want them to apologize, but we’re afraid to ask. Cord Jefferson This article is more than 6 years old Beware a bro who knows what he 'deserves': the friendzone is only purgatory if women's decisions are less valid

And when I had flowers delivered. The drug contains the person's harvested memories so he or she can relive them. And, you know, a lot of people would have a variety of different opinions about all those things. The consequences are minimal, if any. Cord Jefferson is a writer and editor. And Tucson is pretty homogenous. Men whose exes broke up with them and then cut them off deserve explanations as to why, as detailed as they want, for as long as they want them – regardless of the fact that their frightening post-breakup behavior should be explanation enough. He takes the hood that was used when he was being lynched and - this is going to be complicated.

She saw him right before he died.

So I think that was me not fully understanding that what I was actually feeling was anger. Like, I think the viciousness and the violence with which all of this was enacted was shocking to me. He was a writer on the HBO series "Watchmen," which is nominated for 26 Emmys, more than any other show. GROSS: One of your personal essays is about how you donated a kidney to your father in 2009, when your father was living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. And so I think that that was just - it was me being angry but not understanding that I was angry. You're talking about things like reparations. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc., an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. I didn’t know it at first, but the feeling slowly grew within me, until one day – around year two – I looked up and didn’t see “my girlfriend”, but the person with whom I was destined to spend the rest of my life. But for me, the more I thought about it, the more I thought that it made perfect sense for a Black person to be the first superhero. For proof of this, look no further than Elliot Rodger, who will forever serve as a reminder that the phrase “Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” is wildly inaccurate in one quite obvious way. GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. AKA: cord muryo jefferson. And you said that you think people should be open and direct about wanting to hire a diverse writers' room or a diverse newsroom. I was a very, very angry young man in college. I remember that as - you know, when he sent back the letters, I would ask my mom, you know, why doesn't he like me? I still knew I was going to marry her when I called her a dozen times after our last tearful goodbye. Yeah, absolutely. But I have no idea what they said to each other on his deathbed, but I know that she flew back to Ohio to see him. Originally broadcast Aug. 13, 2020. GROSS: Is it something you thought about a lot before? I remember telling a girl I dated in college once that I’d like to be dead by fifty. These days, after several years apart, my ex – the one I was once certain I would marry – does actually text me on occasion, usually to wish me a happy birthday. He doesn't know you. And I co-wrote it with a friend of mine named Max Read, who also used to work at Gawker. You know, once you get people in there, you need to be willing to drop your ego and let your guard down and actually listen to people. Instead, my most powerful memory from that trip is an afternoon spent at the beach during a brief stop in Los Angeles. This is FRESH AIR.

I think for a lot of my early life, I spent feeling miserable all the time and not really understanding why I felt miserable. The TV series nominated for the most Emmys this year, 26 of them, is the HBO drama series "Watchmen."

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