Consider Vanderpump Rules, Sylvester added. Two weeks ago, Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute were fired from the Bravo show following former cast member Faith Stowers‘ claims that the two called the police on her. (Stassi and Kristen have since apologized.)
Instead of firing Stassi and Kristen, Sylvester suggested the show immediately resume filming to document the fallout: “Why not pick the cameras up right now? Why not film them losing their wine lines? Why not film them losing their friends? Why not film them losing their families? Why not film them coming in and going to sensitivity training? Why not film them talking to Don Lemon about why, you know, this is wrong?”
“To say, ‘You know what, I was wrong and I was a racist,’…it will teach people who think these women should’ve not been fired…(a) we gotta be better, (b) we gotta watch ourselves,” Sylvester explained. “Like, we have to be better as a community and as a society.”
He continued, “Watching these people get fired—yeah, it’s quick and whatever, but my mother never whipped me behind closed doors. She would bust my ass in front of a class. And everybody would be like, ‘Oh, I don’t want that to ever happen to me.’ It was a teachable moment for everybody and I just feel like we’re missing that.”
