
After graduating from Princeton, Jacob Savage moved out to Hollywood to chase his dream of becoming a screenwriter. To make ends meet while pursuing this career, he became a ticket scalper and an SAT tutor. For years he worked diligently, believing that a breakthrough in screenwriting was just around the corner.
After numerous opportunities fell through at the last moment, Savage finally came to a sobering conclusion: He had the wrong skin color.
“A couple of times in my career, I was brought into various spaces and told ‘we were about to give you this staff writing job, and we can’t because you’re a white guy, and we already have too many white guys on staff,’” he tells Glenn Beck.
In 2025, Savage gained significant attention
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