With maybe some ethnic characters in the background to fill the room. As Vanessa Brinis-Norris states “Consider some of the most popular television shows in the past two decades. There’s Seinfeld (1989 – 1998) that centres around four white people living in New York, Friends (1994 – 2004) six white people living in New York, Will & Grace (1998 – 2006) four white people in New York.” http://lipmag.com/opinion/white-washing-in-television-from-silencing-to-stereotypes/ These shows have been seen by so many people and very few people have brought it to attention that there are very few popular shows have people of color as leads. This brings society to realize that we have suppressed people of color to the point where a majority of people haven’t realized …show more content…
In spite of Television being whitewashed, people of color may be coming back into movies and shows “A recent UCLA study found that even though racial and gender diversity in television remains appallingly low, more diverse shows bring higher audiences while less diverse ones struggle.” - Daniel Jose Older “A recent UCLA study found that even though racial and gender diversity in television remains appallingly low, more diverse shows bring higher audiences while less diverse ones struggle.” - Daniel Jose Older http://www.salon.com/2013/12/09/whitewashed_tv_isnt_just_racist_its_boring/
Even though things are getting slightly better. It still doesn’t mean that the problem is gone. This is another form of racism that has not been dealt with enough. Society has brought it up in the media and nobody has made serious efforts to tell people how this is wrong. We have thousands of actors that have been unnoticed. Some of these unknown actors have so much potential to be great actors. We just can’t keep reinforcing racial stereotypes and cutting off people of color’s opportunities just because they’re not