That Racist "Project Greenlight" Episode Title Was A "Production Mistake"

BuzzFeed - The title "Hot Ghetto Mess" was taken from a scene deleted from the final version of the episode. Jason Mann and Effie Brown on Project Greenlight. HBO The fourth season of the filmmaking docuseries Project Greenlight — rebooted by HBO after a 10-year absence — has become an instructive, uncomfortable prism through which Hollywood's continuous troubles with racism and sexism have been shown in clear relief. So the fact that the season's sixth episode — which saw the tension between Jason Mann, the white director of Project Greenlight's movie, The Leisure Class, and Effie Brown, the film's black producer, come to a boil — bore the racially provocative title "Hot Ghetto Mess" seemed like a bizarre, if not racist, choice. In the episode, Brown, who has continuously emphasized diversity among the crew as a priority — especially since The Leisure Class is about rich, white people — r