Is TV Too White?

[Randy]

What do you think about the diversity on TV? What shows do you watch? How diverse are the casts? Do you notice the ethnicity and race of the actors and characters on your favorite shows? Does it matter to you? Why do you think race and TV casting is a topic of vigorous discussion right now in our culture?

 

[Evil Eye]

Let's see... about 5.2% of the population is "non-western" apparently. So I should expect half a foreigner on a TV show with a cast of 10 people
No, it's not too white. Statistically some ethnic groups might even be overrepresented.

 

[DrLeftover]

If your TV is "too white", your color registration is off, or perhaps the display control circuit is dying.

Any more, it is cheaper just to buy a new set than to try to get it fixed.

 

[Nebulous's iconNebulous]

If your TV is "too white", your color registration is off, or perhaps the display control circuit is dying.

Any more, it is cheaper just to buy a new set than to try to get it fixed.

Oh doc.

Anyway,

TV used to be way "more white" back in the day I suppose. I notice nowadays that shows make an obvious point (especially in kids shows) to include a representative from all the major ethnicities out there.

 

[DrLeftover]

Yeah... 'back in the day',

1967 to be exact, the lady above made headlines being, well, a regular cast member, an officer on the bridge, and for kissing Kirk on camera in a later episode (the first interracial kiss in US TV history).

As Nichols recounted, "Star Trek was one of the only shows that [King] and his wife Coretta would allow their little children to watch. And I thanked him and I told him I was leaving the show. All the smile came off his face. And he said, don't you understand for the first time, we're seen as we should be seen. You don't have a black role. You have an equal role."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhura

Yes I referenced Wikipedia, you'll get over it.