Défano Holwijn said almost four years ago that he wanted his own talk show on television within five years. However, it still isn’t there. He sees the statement in his skin tone. “It is what it is.”
After years of having rammeld at the door of the Media Park, Défano Holwijn received his first television show last May: TV Curfew. The result? A man and a half and a horse’s head watched. that marginal 56,000 viewers van Defáno of course do not invite him to give him a talk show, but he sees it differently himself.
‘You just feel it’
‘Would you have had your own talk show on TV if you were not of Surinamese descent but were white?’, NRC Handelsblad asks him. Défano thereupon firmly: “Certainly.”
How about that? “I’ve had enough conversations in Hilversum with people who wanted me to, but at a certain point they say: ‘Above that there is a certain system, a certain hierarchy, so well…’ Of course they don’t say it’s because I’m black . But you just feel it.”
Old white men
Défano thinks the white people are keeping him out. “People are more afraid of making mistakes with a dark man than with a white man. And Hilversum is dominated by old white men. I’m not mad about it, it is what it is.”
What does he think of the 56,000 viewers for his TV debut with TV Curfew? “That TV show is not made for the ratings. My target audience does not watch TV.”
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