Racial decade is my name for the decade in which an American television show, magazine, government body, etc, seems to be stuck in based on the proportion of non-Hispanic Whites it has.
For example, the Supreme Court is 77.8% White, which is what the country was back in the 1980s. So its racial decade is the 1980s.
In the examples that follow, the number at the beginning of each line stands for the percentage of non-Hispanic Whites. Those for states and metropolitan areas are from the 2010 census. Those for television shows are based on cast photos.
100.0 1610s
100.0 “The Honeymooners” (1955-1957)
100.0 “Leave It to Beaver” (1957-1963)
100.0 “The Andy Griffith Show” (1950-1968)
100.0 “Bewitched”(1964-1972)
100.0 “The Brady Bunch” (1969-1974)
100.0 “Cheers”(1982-1993)
100.0 “thirtysomething” (1987-1991)
100.0 “Seinfeld” (1989-1998)
100.0 “Friends” (1994-2004)
100.0 “Sex and the City” (1998-2004)
100.0 “How I Met Your Mother” (2005-2014)
100.0 “Breaking Bad” (2008-2013)
100.0 “The Middle” (2009- )
100.0 The social network of 75% of White Americans in 2013
99.1 1620
98.7 1630
97.8 1640
97.6 New Yorker cartoons (October 13th 2014)
96.8 1650
96.5 US Senate (August 2014)
96.1 1660
95.6 1670
95.4 1680
94.4 Maine
94.3 Vermont
94.0 Ferguson, Missouri police department
94.0 Hollywood executives who greenlight films
94.0 Those that vote for Oscar Awards (2016)
93.2 West Virginia
92.3 New Hampshire
92.0 1690
91.0 The average White American’s social network (2013)
90.0 schoolteachers
88.9 North Dakota
88.9 1700
88.7 Iowa
79.8 1750
81.1 1800
83.8 1850
87.3 1900
88.3 1940
87.8 Montana
87.5 1950
87.2 newsrooms: journalists at newspapers and online newsrooms (2015)
86.7 “The Simpsons” based on crowd scenes in the 2003-2004 season
86.3 Kentucky
85.9 Wyoming
85.7 “The Big Bang Theory” (2007- )
85.4 1960
84.7 South Dakota
84.0 Idaho
83.5 1970
83.3 Wisconsin
83.1 Minnesota
82.1 Nebraska
82.0 Time magazine (September 8th 2014)
82.0 “PBS NewsHour” (people shown in news stories, sampled in 2010)
81.3 New York Times (columnists and editorial board, 2014)
81.3 “The Simpsons” (1989- )
81.1 Ohio
81.0 Missouri
80.4 Utah
80.0 “ER” (1994-2009)
80.0 “All in the Family” (1971-1979)
79.9 House of Representatives (August 2014)
79.6 1980
79.5 Pennsylvania
79.0 CBS (cast of prime-time shows in October 2014)
78.6 metro Minneapolis
78.5 Oregon
78.2 Kansas
77.8 Supreme Court (August 2014)
77.0 Maxim Hot 100 (2014)
76.6 Michigan
76.5 Rhode Island
76.2 National Geographic (January to September 2014)
76.1 Massachusetts
75.6 Tennessee
75.6 1990
75.0 “I Love Lucy” (1951-1957)
74.9 metro Boston
74.5 Arkansas
74.0 Hollywood films (cast of the 100 top grossing films in 2013)
72.5 Washington state
71.2 Connecticut
70.0 Colorado
69.1 2000
68.8 White House Cabinet (August 2014)
68.7 Oklahoma
68.0 metro Seattle
67.9 metro Detroit
67.0 Alabama
66.7 “Scandal” (2012- )
65.3 North Carolina
65.3 Delaware
65.0 metro Philadelphia
64.8 Virginia
64.1 South Carolina
64.1 Alaska
63.7 Illinois
63.7 2010
63.6 Disney princesses (2013)
60.3 Louisiana
59.7 2020
59.3 New Jersey
58.3 New York state
58.7 metro Phoenix
58.0 Mississippi
57.9 Florida
57.8 Arizona
57.1 “Community” (2005-2014)
55.9 Georgia
55.6 “Grey’s Anatomy” (2005- )
55.5 2030
55.0 metro Chicago
54.7 Maryland
54.1 Nevada
51.0 2040
50.7 metro Atlanta
50.2 metro Dallas
50.0 “Room 222” (1969-1974)
48.9 metro New York City
48.6 metro Washington, DC
46.6 2050
45.3 Texas
42.6 2060
42.4 metro San Francisco
40.5 New Mexico
40.1 California
39.7 metro Houston
36.6 metro Riverside, California
34.8 metro Miami
31.6 metro Los Angeles
22.7 Hawaii
Notes:
For television shows, unless otherwise noted, I used pictures of the main cast, checking the Wikipedia to see if any of the characters were Hispanic.
For magazines, I looked at pictures from articles set in the US. I only count people in the foreground or mentioned in the captions.
Remarks:
- Stuck in the past: Much of the national government and news media are still pretty much living in the 1970s and 1980s. Only Obama’s cabinet bears more than a passing resemblance to present-day America. In the Senate it is still the 1650s. Much of television is even worse, stuck in the 1610s, a time before Blacks began to arrive in numbers, a time before John Smith kissed Pocahontas (according to Disney legend).
- Already living the multiracial future: The government says the country will be less than half White by 2043, but parts of the country are already there. Some imagine 2043 as some kind of tipping point, in either a good way (the end of White rule) or a bad way (the end of White rule). But, judging from from the parts of the country that are already there (each state is, in effect, an America in the small), neither utopia nor dystopia awaits.
– Abagond, 2014, 2016.
Sources: In part: The Atlantic (2014), Wikipedia (2014), Brown University, Senate (2014), Maxim (2014), Washington Post (2014), ASNE (2015).
See also:
- Anglo Americans
- The White Default
- people of colour
- King’s Dream at 50: A Report Card
- Racial futures
- Painter – multiracial middle-class
- Bonilla-Silva – Latin Americanization of race in the US
- The Smedleys – racism as slowly fading away
- Huntington – clash of civilizations
- Feagin – multiracial democracy
- Hua Hsu – the end of White America?
- Abagond – an enlargement of Whites to take in most Latinos
- 2020s: Arizona
- 2020s: metro New York
- 2050s: Texas
Technically, the Simpsons are yellow. But yeah, they are thought of as white. However, unlike the other 100 percenters, they have several black supporting characters and even trace their family history black to a black slave ancestor.
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My favorite episode highlighted “Bleeding Gums Murphy”. (Moaning Lisa. Check it out). I also liked the episode where Michael Jackson does the voice of a fat white (yellow) guy.
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You should also include in the list Married With Children and My Name Is Earl, both pretty innovative, for their respective times, in handling regularly appearing black characters.
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I bet you had a lot of fun looking this up.
When the economics of the Blacks change you will see more Blacks portrayed.
Who buys the tickets and products?
I bet you can’t change the past!
Education, hard work, joining the main stream where the money is, leaving the comfort of the “Black World” and getting competitive in the money world, eliminating the fear that you will not be accepted, opening up your mind, going halfway at least, getting rid of your hate, seeking those that don’t hate you, stop thinking that every White person hates you, should be your constant motivations!
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nas(:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW55FRXlPEs)
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You know… I can’t help feeling like I’m on black activists side, rather than the white constitutionalists, which I love the best of the best. But some of those same people on fb won’t get on the same side of the ferguson supporters, which pisses me off. So you were freedom fighters until a black face was the people to stand behind…. and I’m not talking about all the freedom activists, but there are some that have disappointed me.
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Those bundy “oath keepers” should have been all over the Michael Brown case, especially after the 1st amendmendment violations, that have happened during the Furguson protests. There were indie media people that got gassed and got stripped of freedom of speech, that should have pissed off those same constitutional “oath keepers”. Keep it consistant people.
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Who buys tickets? – It is called a “return on the investment” – it has nothing to do with right or wrong!
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If they were smart, they would get behind black activists, not even Sharpton. Farrakhan makes Al Sharpton look like a mental Midget. I don’t agree with everything he says, but I’ve seen some of his opinions and they are hard to argue with.
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Why watch TV Abagond? Its the Syangogue of Satan domains.
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I’m shocked that the fictitious Mayberry town wasn’t mentioned. Lily-white Mayberry would fall under 100.0 1610s as well.
“The Andy Griffith Show” (1960-1968)
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@Allen Shaw:
So you’re saying now it depends on “who buys tickets” and not just on “education, hard work, etc.”?
What I’m curious to understand is why you don’t believe that society has anything to do with the current situation of Blacks. Could you explain this?
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America was not 100% white in 1610. http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/23/white-babies-goes-viral-114622
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I found this interesting study on racial and ethnic demographics in Hollywood.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/less-than-5percent-of-actors-in-top-films-are-hispanic-new-study-finds/2014/08/06/5be9b224-1be7-11e4-82f9-2cd6fa8da5c4_story.html?tid=hpModule_d39b60e8-8691-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394&hpid=z15&Post+generic=%3Ftid%3Dsm_twitter_washingtonpost
This study looked at the top 100 grossing films in 2013. Some notable statistics gathered from the study:
-White composed 74% of the cat in those films.
-Blacks were 14%
-17% of those films had no black speaking roles, leading the researchers to believe films with majority black cast made up that.
-6% of the directors were black
-69% of black men were shown in committed relationships.
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Addendum to that last post: in case you wondered, no I’m not agreeing with him, rather I’m trying to figure him out. Racists seem to think that “society” is this perfect, happy system which never oppresses, marginalizes, discriminates against, is unfair to, or otherwise does anything negative toward anyone at all, so if anyone is experiencing something negative it must be THEIR fault and ONLY their fault. Does the racism come first and lead them to this position, does this position come first and lead them to racism, or do the two co-evolve together? Interesting…
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Lessee. There is also Drederick Tatum, Dr. Julius Hibbert, Homer’s co-worker and drinking buddy Carl Carlson, Lou the cop. Also there is the hispanic recurring character Dr. Nick (Hello Everybody) Riviera. No black kids though.
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Also the Hindu character, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, the Kwiki mart clerk, appears quite frequently. Sometimes with his wife and eight kids.
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(m.youtube.com/watch?v=jbE2bzXgx0o&itct=CGAQpDAiEwiu9aDfq8_AAhWvGX4KHVw4AEEyC2M0LXZpZGVvcy11WhhVQzJ5WnNmdWdFbnpjWU95QVV3VFJieHc%3D&gl=US&hl=en&client=mv-google)
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@kiwi-Some white audience seems asian as cardboard characters. Asians are still mysterious ppl in this world. That why wp invented stereotypes to fill in the blanks of them. People still found anime and movies overseas with so much whiteness.Hollywood make lead characters with whitefaces to be funny. Soft War aka Image War everybody! America never forget about the war. Some ppl seem this whiteness in society as form of brainwash and want to rebel against it.
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Michael Cooper beat me to the keyboard i was just going to mention Mayberry there were no black people in Mayberry, is it North or South Carolina? I know it was in one of the Carolinas, and forget about some people of color or being one of the castaways on the island with Gilligan and the Skipper and the rest of the gang. I was watching “Night of The Living Dead” I was always surprised about the black guy that was telling the white folks what to do. And i had this conversation with a white coworker who brought this up, during that time during the 60’s a black man was being assertive.
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Some older generation don’t want let go of their racial whiteness power in entertainment industry.I don’t watch tv or movie for modern day remix of old style shows.Even younger generation slowly moving away from tv. Some of them wandering in the internet and black neighborhood to experience. It’s too much. That why you see the increase of poc on the screen to draw back the money. Only thing messing them up is stereotype and racebending. People trying mingle in unite, make jobs or random dangerous events.
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There were no, or hardly any, Black people on the popular televised westerns: Maverick, GunSmoke, Rifleman, Bonanza, Rin-Tin-Tin, The Wild, Wild West, Kung-Fu. Don’t forget the Honeymooners and I Love Lucy.
A popular recent show, Supernatural, highlights White Supremacy largely by usually showcasing its few black characters as nefarious, evil or misguided.
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Sammy Davis Jr. appeared on two episodes of “The Rifleman” He played a character Wade Randall “The Most Amazing Man” episode. Another where he plays a ruthless badazz gunslinger named Tip Corey in Two Ounces of Tin. That was kind of progressive during the 60’s. Singer Lou Rawls appeared in an episode of “The Big Valley” as an ex-slave and cowboy Joshua Watson. He sang “Swing Low Sweet Chariot” Like i said that was a big deal in the 60’s for any black artist back then.
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So the nearly all black shows are well into the future,right? Like 2500 or something when all the white people have died out or intermarried.
Real life 2014 is not very integrated because most people prefer to live with their own kind. You’ve noticed this yourself, Abagond. If pure white is 75% of whites’ social networks in 2014, why would you call a show reflecting that 1610s? 1610 by the way had a lot of Native Americans still in what would become to the U.S.
Cute idea, but fails on a number of levels.
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The 60’s television show “Bewitched” did try to address racism with an episode “Sisters at heart. It was a brave attempt as i remember to tell this story back then in the 60’s. Tabitha wants to be sisters with her black friend who is spending Christmas with them so she cast a spell an they both become polka dotted. Darren and Larry encounter a racist client who thinks the little black girl who is their house guest is Darren’s daughter so the issue of interracial relations and marriage is addressed. Samantha casts a spell and the racist sees
everyone as black. I think this was a brave attempt for the show in the 60’s when the country was truly and still is in racial turmoil.
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Disney finally has a black princess Tiana “The Princess and the Frog” seeing how when everything was an animal when it came to Africa, i thought they were making progress in 2009 but i was disappointed because Tiana is not a princess but is turned into a frog. Disney has problems recognizing black people as fully human.
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Perhaps “Star Trek” was a bigger deal than is being remembered as TV goes.
In “Star Trek” black people (and Asian people) WERE IN THE FUTURE!
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Then there was that kiss between Uhura and Captain Kirk. That was a big deal.
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@Abagond: Thanks for responding to deleting my first messed up post.
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@ Mary
Wow, I did not know about that “Bewitched” episode with the polka dots. Thanks.
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Two of the most racially progressive shows of the 1960s were “Star Trek” and “Hogan Heroes” and it is for a reason most people forget: they both had non-stereotypical Black characters whose scenes were not easy to cut from the show. Television stations, especially in the South before about 1965, would cut scenes showing non-stereotypical Blacks.
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@ Michael Cooper @ The Pragmatist @ Just Me
Thanks for your input Although this list is hardly meant to be exhaustive, I did add “The Andy Griffith Show”, “I Love Lucy”,”The Honeymooners” and 2013 Hollywood films as a whole.
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@ Biff
Many Whites have not progressed much beyond the monoracial society of Virginia of 1610. There have been functioning multiracial societies in the US, but the one that became dominant – through genocide and slavery – related to other races through gun violence, theft, domination and segregation. The bad guys won – and created a racist view of the world, a big lie, to whitewash it all.
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The Big Bang Theory is my favorite comedy, but black characters are generally lower level functionaries. I think that if they ever showed a black physicist (who wasn’t Neil DeGrass Tyson doing a cameo), I’d have a heart attack. What an opportunity to break a stereotype.
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I would add “Leave it to Beaver” (1957-1963). RE: Disney: I notice they always draw the “native” characters with similar features as the animals that inhabit the land. I am a music producer and vinyl collector. Last time on a dig, I found a disney record “Walt Disney’s tales of Uncle Remus and other selections” ca.1947. One of the tracks is called “Brer Rabbit and the Tar Baby”. I haven’t listened to the album yet, I have to be in a certain state of mind to be able to tolerate such rubbish.
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That was “yesterday”, you will not be able to say that you are an adult until you can see the past and make up your mind to actually do better.
I am sure that there is nothing that you will watch that was produced “yesterday” that you are going to accept!
Setting around writing notes about what was wrong with the past is useless!
What are you doing today?
Have you gone to your local school to assist?
Are you a part of the local community activities, do you attend city meetings where city programs are approved?
Are you part of a group of positive citizens who have made contact with your local police force to let them know that you are watching?
Have you had them visit your local community meetings to talk to the citizens?
If you add all of the money that rich Blacks are “willing” to spend, you may be able to produce one movie, however I doubt it.
I have watched Blacks accept money from their Jewish friends and constantly see them kicking the Jewish people in the “butt”. Have you done any studies on how many successful blacks have been supported by “Whites”?
We are all part of one big group, racism is a failed concept which is a derivative of a previous failed system called tribalism which was the system used in Europe before states were formed. Now most Blacks call all Whites in America the same when in Europe they have been killing each other for hundreds of years because of Nationalism!
Get wise, spend your educated mind and time on helping others overcome their prejudices and maybe “mentor” some individual so they may become successful!
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It seems that Allen Shaw may be a good candidate to target for the upcoming class on “White Paternalism”.
Anyone volunteer to teach that class?
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@Bulanik
Star Trek was about 80% white, so definitely on the leading each of the wave that hit from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s. At that time it was considered very avant garde.
And Spock, though played by Jewish Leonard Nimoy, played a character half-human and half-Alien. I think that that was a symbolic moniker for a Eurasian man, with an Alien (ie, Chinese or Japanese) father and a human (ie, white) mother, but raised as Alien (ie, Asian). They played out both Eurasian stereotypes of “Best of both Worlds” and “Tragic half-breed”.
But, no non-white character would ever lead a starship or even take over when the captain was absent. Only a white character could do that.
@abagond
I do understand that parts of the South simply cancelled the episode that featured Captain Kirk being forced to kiss Lt. Uhura.
We still don’t see interracial kisses on screen today. At least very few. And there are scant few persons on screen playing a role as a child of an interracial marriage. It think we are more likely to see same sex parent families than interracial families. The “Good Times” was back in the 1970s.
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“why you don’t believe that society has anything to do with the current situation of Blacks”
I am not sure I understand what you mean! My comment meant that movies are made to sale not affect the social system?
The sole purpose of a movie for the person financing the movie is his financial return, the subject matter is up to those individuals who produce the movie, and their experience in the past is not enough money is returned when they make social statement movies!
Spike Lee and Tyler Perry are very successful making movies about Blacks do you watch them?
https://mubi.com/lists/notable-films-by-black-directors
https://mubi.com/lists/notable-films-by-black-directors
http://www.foxrothschild.com/newspubs/newspubsArticle.aspx?id=15032388433
This subject is about past movies without Black representation not about the current Black social situation! Another time please!
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Speaking of Good Times, the Jeffersons, etc. it seems that we had more TV programs in the 1970s that featured majority black casts and interracial marriage. Since the 1980s, they have all but disappeared. “21 Jump Street” had a multiracial (albeit majority white) cast, but that over 25 years ago.
Some of the modern TV shows look more like “Father Knows Best” as though we went right back to the 1950s.
I suspect it might have something to do with something Moanika mentioned, that young people are moving away from TV. So, the target TV audience is baby boomers, and maybe Generation X, the ones who grow up with TV, but in white suburbs. Yes, they watched the racially integrated shows from the 1970s, but that was only on TV. They never really experienced them.
But young people DO watch movies. Something is wrong there.
I always found something wrong with movies and TV. My early childhood was in Washington, DC when it was 70% black. My neighborhood got blockbusted. Then we moved to an all-white suburb neighborhood in MD which also got blockbusted. Today it is 91% black and about 5% white. Later we moved to another all-white neighborhood when I went to high school, and it slowly became majority black in the 1980s and today is 75% black and 16% white.
I spent summer holidays in Alabama which was less white then than it is today. And I visited relatives in California and New York, which were mostly Asian. Living in metro DC and NY, I never thought of the USA as anything but very multiracial, but you would never guess that from US movies and TV.
My brother even grew up thinking that the USA (in 1980) was 60% white and 35% black. On top of that, about half of the contacts we met through family friends were Asian. When he later went to a state university, he was shocked to find it over 90% white. Most whites had hardly any contact with anything but other white people.
I think the top media executives are locked in on that era. Young people today don’t watch much TV.
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Bewitched, in theory, was a show about a “mixed” marriage. I Love Lucy was too.
It seems to me that some of the shows that debuted in the 60s had more diverse casts than many of the shows produced today. Star Trek and I Spy are great examples. As is Sesame Street. Mission Impossible, Hogan’s Heroes, the Ed Sullivan Show (as well as other “variety shows”), the Mod Squad, Julia, Daktari, East Side/West Side, The Bill Cosby Show (“Hikky Burr”) — all featured fairly diverse casts…for the time period. Sesame Street was a cornucopia of human skin tones.
Other shows that actually had “very special episodes” that dealt specifically with race include the Dick Van Dyke Show (with special guest star Greg Morris), the above mentioned episode of Bewitched, and The Name of the Game.
Yes, the shows were still written, directed, and produced by whites, so you can imagine how…tame they — and the characters of color portrayed in them — were. But as time capsules of the period, they’re interesting.
The Golden Age Of Blacks In Television: The Late 1960s
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@ Allen Shaw
The sole purpose of slavery is a financial return.
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Sometimes there’s poc in all white tv but in a different form. Stan Lee confess X-Men is really black people, Planet of Ape,zombies(word zombies contain an african’s origin),darker shade character,robots,etc
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Excuse me if anyone has mentioned this, but TV shows, particularly sit-coms, center on a family or group of friends which, typically consist of a single ethnic group. Quite naturally that ethnic group is going to comprise the larger percentage of the main characters in the show. In “black” shows, the main characters are black. A show like “Martin”, to take a random example, by the metrics of this post, would be stuck in, like, never.
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INTERESTING, INDEED.
so, I just went through my fb friends list and well, there could be some variances and my friend from papua new guinea i put down as pacific islander? and also there is some question on whether my phenotypic, uh, perspective on the person is accurate to their self-identity, and no I’m not bothering my friends, do you identify as mixed or black, right? but my demographics is as follows,
black female 53
white male 57
black male 17
white female 39
arab male 1
mixed (ie black and white) female 3
mixed male 1
asian male (includes south and east asian) 12
pacific islander female 1
hispanic non-white male 2
hispanic white female 2
hispanic non-white female 3
arab female 1
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@v8driver
I do not understand what that demographics mean. The etnicity of your FB-friends? Or of your collegues? Or the street you are living in?
Anyway, all the best from my side of the Atlantic,
Jeff
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O wait. I saw it. My apologies!
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@ nomad
In the US the social networks of Whites are, on average, 91% White. Blacks and Hispanics do not live in such a closed, monoracial world: Black social networks are, on average, 65% Black, The average Hispanic social network is 46% Hispanic.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/08/self-segregation-why-its-hard-for-whites-to-understand-ferguson/378928/
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Hi. First chance I’ve had to address you directly. Just wanna say Great Blog.
For the reason I mentioned, TV shows may not be the best gage of this phenomenon. The composition of institutions, like the Supreme Court and Congress, on the other hand, are accurate indicators of racial inclusion/exclusion.
Please, could you reclassify one of my favorite shows, The Simpsons? It’s at least as diverse as All In The Family.
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It’s a white man’s country America is made for White people by White people. Negroes were used as slaves only not to be real citizens. That is what the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision spelled out. Its a waste of time pointing out these little odds facts of imbalances of power, the only shocker is when it’s not a racial decade, which begs the question is it still not a racist country? Hmmm..I think we all know the answer without any drawn out list of facts. Verbal pandemic at its finest.
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@ nomad
I found a larger cast picture of “The Simpsons” and added it to the post. That brought it to the 1970s.
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Umm @Allen Shaw
As far as your “work hard comment” goes, African American exceeded White Americans in college attendance with African American male numbers being in front of White Americans and African American women taking the top spot.
As far as economics, Southern African Americans economic situation is pretty much on par with White Southern Americans which speaks to majority of the African American demographic since most of the African American population is situated in the Southern Unites States. To put it plainly, there is and has been a Black American middle class for a very long time now. In fact, African American women are beginning to out earn White American women. Oh, unless you’re talking about White flight which takes with it the resources of blue collar jobs leaving a lack of employment opportunities which came about and has been going on since the African American northern migration which turned/turns middle class neighborhoods into low income problem areas, which, has nothing to do with being hardworking.
Lastly, as the (White) creator of The Wire pointed out in a documentary, statistics show that African Americans subscribe to a vast array of television despite the ethnicity of casts, whereas White audiences switch off if there are two or three people of color in lead roles. To add to that African Americans are the biggest consumers in the united States!
No, of course not all White people hate Black people, but from your disgusting sweeping generalizations about an entire community, despite the facts being completely contrary to everything you’ve written, from your stated beliefs, it’s pretty obvious you’re one of those hateful White people.
Sadly, you’ve contradicted your own statement there.
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My social network of fb, and that is the inference i made from abagond’s article supra., is apparently:
50% white
36.5% black
but my IRL social network is much more heavily skewed towards black people – over 90%
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@Allen Shaw: Here’s a thought all black people are not the same, why don’t you follow your own advice and be the solution instead of the problem. My spidey senses are tingling and i think you are one of those nasty racist judging from your racist screed. You need to go to some type of sensitivity training and you need to learn how to be less of a bigot Sir.
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@ Mary
My spidey senses were tingling too.
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@Abagond: lol!
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I remember Chicago in the late Sixties when you started to see black people on TV. Something would come on and you’d hear white people saying ‘Tch. They think they gotta be everywhere.” Then the advertisers realized the commercials with black people in them worked, anything that gets your attention is a good thing. So you’d see a commercial with some black lady serving up some Hamburger Helper and you’d hear the “Tch, they think gotta be everywhere,” gripe and next week there’d be Hambuger Helper on the table. LOL.
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• When men
wrangle by the mouth with no certainty that they
mean the same thing while using the same words,
it perhaps would be as well if they would keep
silence.”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
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I almost forgot about that. Do they still have that?
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@Allen Shaw: Again Sir, take your own advice and remain silent, Sir. Your words say more about you than your ignorant generalizations about African Americans.
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@Allen Shaw
I do not believe I would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger, but I do not feel so about the other color. We have ground the manhood out of them, & the shame is ours, not theirs, & we should pay for it.
– Letter to Francis Wayland, December 24, 1885
Mark Twain
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@Allen Shaw
Money can’t buy happiness but it can rent it repeatedly!
Alfred E Neumann
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@Kiwi
Lol. It makes even less sense when you consider the fact that we’re talking about TV shows, and in that contexts, studio audience tickets probably make a fraction of a show’s profit, if at all, (for shows that actually use live studio audiences). It’s viewers that count. Unless of course, Asians and Blacks can’t afford televisions . . .. but the numbers say that’s not the case.
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minda45
I remember Chicago in the late Sixties when you started to see black people on TV. Something would come on and you’d hear white people saying ‘Tch. They think they gotta be everywhere.” Then the advertisers realized the commercials with black people in them worked, anything that gets your attention is a good thing. So you’d see a commercial with some black lady serving up some Hamburger Helper and you’d hear the “Tch, they think gotta be everywhere,” gripe and next week there’d be Hambuger Helper on the table. LOL
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Ophelia Devore
“I showed the carpet world where they could make money. I said Black is profitable and let’s go that way and that’s where I went. That’s the way I went and they made money, money, money!”
BBC documentary clip “When Black became beautiful.”
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4sCb5yD4LE)
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ooh i got my first asian female fb friend how bout that, unsolicited i might add, just a fellow group member
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Quite a few of the main shows listed here just like some of the commenters here I Completely ignore ,as to others I find I can take it to a degree as their mostly violent white men killing other white men i.e the rileman,man from uncle etc etc
some episodes of star trek are just to white people focus for my enjoyment ,like the numerous episodes where the find aliens who just happen to look just like w..a.s.p. etc
whereas others like when they visit a white gangster planet or when they encounter a alien super power that merged with one earths old satellite was interesting and fun.
Maybe one day I’ve be able to watch several all black dramas,action-crime and sifi stories produced by and for black people.
Maybe……
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@Mary Burrell
you definitely know some television ,I saw one of the rileman episodes with sammy but I didn’t know about the other,and I’m gonna check out that bewitched episode just because…..
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Wow. I see why you thought there were no black characters in the Simpsons. That picture is biased against the black characters they do have. They didn’t include the most prominent black Simpsons character, Dr, Hibbert. Now that’s just racist. Discrimination against black cartoon characters!
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Now that you mention it. And every once in a while they will have a white character that’s actually white. Or paler than the others. Like those twin girls.
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Reblogged this on and commented:
Hmmm these post are just articles. It is not even the beginning yet
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Newsrooms in the US are 87.2% White, little different than ten years ago:
http://www.theroot.com/blogs/journalisms/2015/07/report_number_of_journalists_of_color_working_in_digital_and_print_newsrooms.html?wpisrc=newstories
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@Abagond
How is the metro South Florida area (Dade, Broward, West Palm; Miami metro) in the 2060s racially speaking?
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