August 25, 2011

TV grows whiter in 2011-2012

Concerns about lack of minorities in NBC's family


By Greg Braxton








The Dehyphenator said...

Nothing's more conducive to ending racism in America than keeping tabs on the racial composition of just about everything. Yeah, right.

"TV grows whiter in 2011-2012" My God, just what do you sound like? Ever give a thought to that question? Lessee: "TV grows blacker in 2011-2012" Racist or not racist? Fitting or not fitting for a site like Stormfront? But change "blacker" to "whiter" and it's all OK?! How do you guys manage to lead a functional life when you lack even the most basic sense for irony, hypocrisy and logical contradiction?

dmarks said...

I agree that some attention is needed to this. After all, you can't ignore it if year after year, Native Americans are under-represented.

But we sure don't need racist solutions (such as forms of affirmative action, which is blatantly racist) or mere tokenism.

Good solutions including getting more Natives/etc into filmmaking and other aspects of the creative process.

Anonymous said...

Well, dmarks, the big problem with tokenism is that it's stupid. When I was a kid, five-token bands were the norm. The first five-token band (outside of PBS) has to be the "new" X-Men from the 70s. Yeah, they were all national stereotypes, except for Storm, who had absolutely nothing Egyptian about her, but she instead has closer to Earth tendencies. Subsequent ones were hardly any better.

Anonymous said...

Also, see, dmarks, if you acknowledge that racism exists, you're a racist.

Anonymous said...

Networks and the media execs are not ran by minorities, they are all ran and owned by Anglos and these people only reflect an America of past generations, not the future America where diversity and mixed races are inevitable.

Television programming is geared to the needs of the largest voting pool, which are white, elderly Americans born between the 1930s to 1950s.

Rob said...

"TV grows blacker in 2011-2012" Racist or not racist? Answer: It's not racist to observe either trend if it's factually accurate. As the observations in my posting were.

It would be racist only if someone said, "TV is growing whiter and that's good [moral judgment], even though the US population is growing browner." That's essentially what TV executives are saying, or at least implying. And that's racist.

Anything else you need me to explain for you, Dehyphenator? I'm here to help people who are ignorant about the documented racism in America.