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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: Blacks on TV (was Re: LET THE BOYCOTT BEGIN!)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.231023.5929@wam.umd.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 23:10:23 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan27.172016.18499@ringer.cs.utsa.edu> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan26.235828.19843@husc3.harvard.edu> cstone@husc8.harvard.edu (christopher stone) writes:
- >>In article <C1H2u8.Cu9@ns1.nodak.edu> green@plains.NoDak.edu (Brad Green) writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan26.025815.8046@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>>> Or perhaps the whole idea is absurd. Who cares is cosby is
- >>>> a hypocrite? Hell, anyone who didn't figure that out when he
- >>>> started complaining about the media portrayal of blacks on
- >>>> television (meanwhile, he just finished up the last season on
- >>>
- >>>Well, I think he had a point. Give me one example of a positive black person
- >>>on TV, other than Tibbs on In The Heat Of The Night. Most blacks on TV are
- >>>portrayed as idiots, dumb, worthless, etc. Look at In Living Color, or any
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- Living Color, an all black show written and directed by blacks..
- <With a few token whites and now an asian on the cast>..
-
- One of the funnier shows on TV.
-
-
- >>>of the other dumb Fox programming. Look at the major networks. We used to
- >>>have an intelligent investigator on Matlock, but he's now gone. I usually
- >
- >Something I've always been offended by (especially when seeing the old
- >1970's sitcoms) is the sterotyping of all races depicted.
- >
- >For example, blacks are unfortuneately either being totally ignorant or
- >deliberately bigoted. Perhaps it's not as bad as it was during the 70's,
-
-
- Are you saying that there are no blacks who are racists?
-
- <And how this ties in with Fox's line up is questionable--
- Martin, In Living Color, etc--I don't see these stereotypes..>
-
-
- >but it's still a problem on TV. The irony that the supposedly 'liberal' media
- >seems to campaign against racism in the real world while allowing
- >blatant racial stereotyping in fictional shows.
- >
- >I mean, I'm white and I cringe when I see a show like 'In Living Color',
- >because it irks me seeing people (any people, any race) being depicted
-
-
- I guess we could try to depict people of no race, but this
- seems a little difficult.
-
-
- >I still believe in the technology. I get angry when I see it wasted like
- >this. Television IMHO has the potential to be something great to improve
- >society, instead all the media has done for us is to exacerbate already
- >serious social problems.
-
-
- Social engineering is an obscenity. I hope TV continues to be
- a (ha) news source and an entertainment source. What next,
- Children of the Rainbow--the series?
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-
- >I don't watch much TV because of things like this.
- >
- >Call me crazy, but what's wrong with making a show depicting people as
- >people?
-
-
- What's wrong with a show depicting people as they really are?
- Or a show depicting a mokery of people as they really are?
-
- Or even a show depicting people as some people with they
- would be (i.e., Star Trek)?
-
-
- >A good example of this is the NBC program 'Reasonable Doubts'.
-
-
- A cheezy soap opera. Hardly depicting people as anything
- but all-dedicated-whatevers..
-
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