Segregation in the entertainment industry - You suck, holywood.

[Virtual Fighter]

Ok, you tore apart my reasons...the person has to be able to act and it has to make sense with what the show is trying to say or where it takes place.

What they're trying to say?

So they can make choices on what race gets the job and which doesnt? No, that's racism.

It's not fair that sidcoms have to be 100% one race, with a token race charector here and there, and most of these shows are white. It's not fair for the actors and it's not fair for us as people, because we as a nation are dependant on TV for our moroals and when we see a school with nothing but white faces, we begin to think that's how normal people live, act, ect.

It's not fair "what they're trying to show" always has to revolve around the race in some way.

Friends had lots of guest stars that were of other races. There was a Asian girlfriend...a black woman...a Spanish man...and to tell you the truth if they had written in a black person it would of felt pushed especially if they did it in the middle of the season. Plus I don't think they could of portrayed a black person accurately....

You said it, guest stars. Guest stars as in one episode people that are unimportant to the story.

There were 7 friends, 7 white faces. Why? Is america really that racist that we can't take a diverse group of human beings?

Seinfeld...it doesn't seem like it would of work...I don't know any black people who acted like any of them.

1) Thank god, because I hate sienfeld and really hope EVERYONe on this planet has no simmularities with those charectors

2) That's sort fo a racist sentimit in itself, what you're saying is blacks shouldn't be on that showbecause all the black people you know arn't fit to be in a show about wealthy upper class white people living in new york.

What is that, the holywood form of jim crow laws?

I could ask you the same question about "Family Matters, "Martin" and "Soul Food." So I will, why were there no white neighbors?

That's exactly my point! There's racism in BOTH sides. No white people on the black people shows, no white people in the black people shows, asians arn't getting any attention and niegther are latinos.

It's segregated as HELL. We have the black shows and the white shows and they never mix.

I'll even answer it for you: Because they k####est about their own race and what portrayed to them...ever wonder why when white shows do add a black person or white person show they always stick to the stereotypes...Let's take Cuts for example...they stuck a rich WHITE woman to work in a predominantly black neighborhood because she had to learn a lesson. Why couldn't it have been a Hispanic Rich girl? BECAUSE WHITE WOMAN ARE OFTEN THOUGHT OF BEING RICH AND SNOBBY. The Jefferson's did the same thing...so did the beloved George Lopez show....the daughter liked a rocker WHITE guy. Why couldn't it been an Asian?

So you are in support of using stereotype as a way of connecting with the ignorant masses?

So we can show a latino as a border hopping, taco selling, welfare recieving lazy guy because they're THOUGHT to act like that?

Or we can showblack people as lazy, ignoramuses because they're THOUGHT to act like that?

Or asians as eating dogs, being super smart and being into electronics while also knowing kung fubecause they're THOUGHT to be like that?

Or white people as greedy, rich pigs, because they're THOUGHT to be like that?

No, that's racist, that's segregation, and that's stereotypical. If we ever want to better ourselves as a society we must break the hold of the idiot box which portrays negative statments of a society so far since those times or segregation and racism!

It takes time. You can't expect them to just have shows that pop up overnight that are all diverse.

Don't you think 400 years is long enough?

It's not. In real life a lot of people hand out with people of their own race. I don't know where you go to school, but at my school all the Asians sit together. Same with the blacks and whites....

So, just because us as a society might be racist and still segregated, TV must portray that and even push those roots further down the ground?

What would it be like if during the 60s, the largest show during that decade was one about a black guy being best friends with a white guy? Society would bettrer itself.

So if we keep portraying these racist ststments in a positive way, we will only crumble as a whole.

Oh, and I'll take you up on the commercial thing...and about the Arab comment...ever look at LOST? The Middle Eastern guy who I guess looks "Arab" on there was not a terrorist he was a solider. You see it takes time...slowly it's becoming integrated. But you have to wait...and like I said...stop talking about it and do something to speed it up. Go make a script that can become a catalyst.

Shouldn't it be intigrated by now? It's been 50 years since Brown vs the board of education, when the first black students when to a whites-only school for the first time. 50 years ago, segregation ended. Yet, after all this technology, after all these inovations, our minds still havn;t changed? As a society we are much further than we were then, as an entertainment industry, we are still stuck in the slave plantation.


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Hey, don't blame this on HOLLYWOOD!
They give us what we wanna see, true?
Well there ya go, we've got someone to blame this on now!

That's like saying It's not hitler's fault millions of people died, he was only representing what his people wanted, so it was there fault and not his.

TV is givnig us our ideas, we're just believing in them and asking for more.