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« Wednesday « February 21, 2001
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This Dismissal (#10)
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while i don't particularly notice that television is overwhelmingly white, i do notice that it's overwhelmingly black & white. where is an asian who isn't the token immigrant running the corner store? my fuck, where are the brown people? why is race turned into black vs. white? where are the shades of grey (yellow brown red)?All BoyCaught can say is be careful what you wish for. Black people complain about lack of representation on TV and all we continue to see are your Martins, Parkers, and Cedric the Entertainers.
While a lot of it is entertaining on a surface level, and BoyCaught admits to watching some on the regular ReplayTV rotation, they're all just updated versions of the same old toms, coons, mulattoes, mammies, and bucks that have been seen for hundreds of years. After all, they were doing blackface minstrel shows back in the 1800s. And who didn't love that l'il old Stepin' Fetchit? Oh well, it's just to say that there's a long-standing history behind this black/white entertainment thing, and this sad phenemenon, this panoply of mannered derision, this entire costume drama is carefully documented and profiled in Donald Bogle's classic book, titled, interestingly enough: Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies and Bucks.
Oh, and another theory on why everything on the boob tube seems to get boiled down to black people and white people: in America, other so-called minority groups assimilate into the dominant culture much easier, so much so that perhaps the current power brokers in TV-land hardly notice a difference between themselves and those others. The black/white issue seems to envelop the entire question of harmony between races, apparently rendering discussion of the finer forms of miscegenational conflict moot, at least on TV. Black vs White is the Porsche of interracial conflicts: there are no substitutes. (b/w allaboutgeorge)
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