When CBS’ popular drama Hawaii Five-0 returns for Season 8 in the fall, it will be missing two of its original castmembers. Daniel Dae Kim and Grace Park have departed the series after reportedly not being able to reach new contract agreements with the network.
Bustle reached out to CBS for comment, but did not receive immediate response. According to Variety, Dae Kim and Park were seeking equal pay with the show’s white leads Alex O’Loughlin and Scott Caan. And in a letter to his fans posted on Facebook on Wednesday, Dae Kim reminded the world that equal pay issues go beyond gender lines.In his post, the actor wrote,
Often, issues of pay parity seem to focus exclusively on the inequality between the compensation offered to men and women for doing the same job. However, both in the average job market and in Hollywood, minorities of both sexes are hit the hardest when it comes to issues of pay. Pew’s 2016 report found that overall black Americans earned just 75 percent as much as whites in 2015 and that “the average hourly wages for black and Hispanic men were $15 and $14, respectively, compared with $21 for…
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