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Is it not the case that when people of color watch....?

...TV shows with a predominantly white cast, they complain about the lack of diversity, and pressure TV producers to include more people of color in their programs. Yet, when white folk watch TV shows with a cast of predominantly people of color, if they don't like it they just change channel?

Update:

Eddie J. If you think my question is a complaint, you failed to understand the question.

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  • 4 weeks ago
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    The last show i watched with pretty much all black characters was Black Lightning and half the dialogue was about them being black and the plot was full of woke anti-white references so i stopped watching it.

    I really wouldn't care if they didn't broadcast it so much.

    When I watched the Black Panther film 2 black characters were wisecracking about having to 'fix another broken white boy' at one point .

    You'd never hear that in other Marvel films.

  • Leo
    Lv 7
    3 weeks ago

    If I don't like a show it's usually because it is badly written and/or acted.  The color of the cast doesn't enter into it.  An show with an all black cast can suck just as much as a show with an all white cast.

  • EddieJ
    Lv 7
    4 weeks ago

    There was clearly a problem with lack of diversity in the past, so people had the right to complain.  Eventually, people in power started changing things, so people shouldn't have to push for change anymore.  But, some people have gotten into the habit of complaining.  But, now, YOU are the one who is complaining.

    There is no perfect balance.  Award shows have always had a leading actor category and a leading actress category, so that men and women didn't have to compete against each other.  But there was no gender division in the directors category -- because there were virtually no women directors.  Now that there ARE women directors, the men & women ARE competing against each other in that category.

    So, should there be best white male director, best white female director, best non-white male director, best non-white female director?  Maybe there should be 4 more categories, for directors under 45 and directors 45 and over.

    But, the thing that we should ALL be able to agree about is that if you don't like the situation that you are asking about, you should just ignore it -- not post a question about it.  In other words, YOU should change the channel. 

  • Anonymous
    4 weeks ago

    I don't know that that's the case.  Black people like plenty of majority, or even all, whie shows.  White people also sometimes get upset at majority black shows 

    The difference is that white people who want to watch all white shows have lots and lots of options to choose from.  People of color have a lot fewer options for shows with predominantly non white casts.  If we look at network TV, I think Blackish might be the only predominantly black show out there.  Things are even worse for other ethnicities.  When the tv show Fresh Off the Boat debuted several years ago it was the first time in IIRC 20 years that a show with a predominantly Asian-American cast had been on network tv.  There had been some shows with Asian leads, but their casts were mostly white.  Network tv used to have a number of predominantly black shows in the late 70s and 1980s: Good Times, Jeffersons, Cosby Show.  But that kind of went away and network tv became more monolithically white.  While black people still get lots of roles on tv shows, they are usually in a predominantly white cast.  The idea of mostly black casts has been unusual in major tv shows.  Nowadays we normally only see it from lower budget productions on networks like BET.  And from the shows I've listed we can also see that network TV is most comfortable with majority-minority casts on sit-coms.  The idea of a mostly black cast or mostly Asian cast in a drama is still very foreign to American tv (unless it's a historical show where the context demands it, like Roots)

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