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I don't use wikipedia as a reference.
And No, in sports like football, baseball, basketball, etc.
If you're saying a lot of white people in those, there are still a lot of successful, high-rated, mainstream black shows still on television.
Ex: Fresh Prince, Tyler Perry's house of Payne, Everybody hates Chris, Family Matters, Cosby Show.
Some of the biggest actors in movies are black. Ex: Morgan Freeman, Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes, etc.
Most listened to, mainstream music. Ex: Beyonce, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Rihanna, Diana Ross, etc.
Point is, as far as media, I disagree that black people are discriminated against that harshly at all.
Fresh Prince is finished.
Everybody hates Chris is fnished.
Family Matters is finished.
The Cosby Show is finished.
The only relevant thing you said in your statement will be House of Pain as (unfortunately) a successful high rated show.
But it's not mainstream.
Take for example the Cosby Show were the viewership had about an equal to both "african american households" and "white america household". Networks on where the shows are air almost plays and important role on what makes it mainstream.
Tyler Perry's work is known in most America however he is supported more than half by black Americans. Those are his consumers and his audience in his past works.
But if I were to ask you name 10 scripted shows where a Black American is the "HEAD" lead, can you? With including only One of Tyler's Perry work.
But can you name 10 scripted shows where the lead is white american? (too easyyy)
And not just Black American use any minority group
Asian for example can you name 10 american shows where an asian is a head lead?
Will Smith, Denzel Washington, Wesley Snipes. -nods-
Only two of those are A listers. There are MANY black actors, but how many are A listers?
A listers qualify as someone who as been a lead in a huge movie production and is a average household name--they are a BRAND. Their name alone brings attention and MONEY.
If for example Nia Long is a star in a movie and Brad Pitt is a star in movie how many more people will recognize Nia Long's name over Brad Pitt?
African Americans don't have a lot of A list Actors.
For every 1 A list *identify* Black American you can name 5 white american.
"Most listened to, mainstream music. Ex: Beyonce, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, Rihanna, Diana Ross, etc.
Point is, as far as media, I disagree that black people are discriminated against that harshly at all."
Music Genre is correct. African Americans dominates the major pop culture music industry.
BUT in return we get the worse backlash for doing the same thing White americans will do.
Unless the White American offend some religious group most of the look is deem as edgy and creative where there are controversies surrounding Nicki Minaj, Rihanna and even Beyonce.
But if you only pay attention to the "music" and "sales" you wouldnt know much of what I'm talking about concerning this.
The media is very harsh on Black Americans and People of color.
Have you seen the national coverage on the Casey Anothey Story? Even if you havent you heard. A white little girl was reported missing
emo And the media coverage was heavy it was even worse when the trials came about.
But have you heard any coverage on Daffine Stephane Cabrera-Demnieta, Patrick Alford, Tagena Griffith or Kiara Dharmesh that's a mix of black, hispanic and asian
emo All under 5 years of reported missing.
The news can not report EVERY child missing, but why is it only nation eye focus when the poor victim is white?
It's the same media that as started a misused of words stating its Black Americans who are unmarriable and least attractive. It's the media that is focus heavily on the attention of our hair of our so called "lacked" and who can forget the N word?
emo I dont see any other nationalities that looked at under such HEAVY microscope so negatively.
I disagree, there are black leads in a lot of shows that don't have a fully black cast.
In most CSI shows, black people have been lead parts. NCIS LA - black lead. in House MD - black lead. Criminal Minds - black lead. - they're all in every single episode.
Denzel Washington, Will Smith, and Morgan Freeman are DEFINITELY A list. Samuel L Jackson. James Earl Jones. Lawrence Fishburne. Jamie Foxx. Eddie Murphy, Halle Berry, Whoopi Goldburg... Come on..
They are called minorities for a reason. They are a minority. There aren't as many of them in America, therefore there isn't going to be as equal of a ratio in media. That's just common sense. It's not about being racist.
It's just people like you who think that it's racist after counting the number of white people versus minorities in media in general.
I don't think that media or movies in general should have to follow a specific diversity formula to be able to cast their projects. That would just be way too pathetic.
Plus, there are a billion predominantly white shows that are cancelled. You can't use that they are all being 'cancelled' as an excuse, because there are many, many more predominantly white shows that ended.
I don't see why to be "fair", white people have to be discriminated against so harshly.
Honestly.
- Who gets into the college if a white person and a minority have similar grades but the white person's is slightly higher? The minority.
- Why is it that even saying "African American" now is politically incorrect, yet you can say someone is white, or Caucasian? or "White boy" or a Cracker, for that matter, and that doesn't get corrected? How is that not racist?
- Maybe the media focuses some more on several little white girls gone missing as a ratio (however, as white being the majority of america, tons of them have gone under the radar too.) Was the Casey Anthony case not a sad story for every race? Was it really just because she was white? Because that's very disrespectful to say that they only chose her case to show because she was white, and not because of the story behind it. OJ Simpson's case was, I'd say, a much more widely known case and he's black. Or Michael Jackson being a *****? That was all over the news for a long time.
- How is it that there is a minority president? Obviously they aren't discriminated against that much.
Do you know what makes the typical racist white person discriminate against some minorities?
This. The fact that a lot of them are like this - they act like their lives are so hard and they blame it on racism or discrimination if they don't get anywhere.
The civil rights movement has been carried out very, very well.
I feel bad for the homosexual people in America right now, if you honestly think that minorities have it so bad, maybe look at their freedoms and acceptance over homosexual peoples'.
They can't even legally get married in most states - yet it's so sad and emotionally damaging to a minority that the N word is used? And who uses the N word the most? THOSE MINORITIES. That is pathetic. I feel sorry for people who think like that, because they are very selfish.
I'm not going to continue replying after this, because I realize that with stone hard ignorance, there is no open mind, so no matter how much I provide obvious evidence or provide relevant theories/facts, this is going no where.
I am not a racist, I just don't like that people get so offended by other people's generalization of them. If they are judging you, they most likely don't matter, and if they matter, they probably don't judge you - so it annoys me so much that "racism" is such a "pressing issue" in America, when there's hardly any fatal hate crimes done from white people here anymore (with the exception of maybe deep, rural south.)
It's just sad.
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