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A Boy With A Goal

When screenwriter Eric Monte was a young boy he loved westerns, according to a 2006 story by NPR. His favorite cowboys included the likes of Roy Rogers and the Lone Ranger. Growing up in the projects of Chicago, he pretended to be the Lone Ranger on his broomstick horse until one day an older white neighbor told him he couldn’t be the Lone Ranger because the Lone Ranger was white. That’s when he decided he wanted black heroes to look up to and at age 22, he hitchhiked to Hollywood to become a writer, having had no prior experience and just five dollars.