Posted on 04/29/2006 8:18:04 AM PDT by sirchtruth
HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 29 (UPI) -- The television show "Commander In Chief" has angered black leaders with its depiction of a Washington suburb as poor and crime-ridden.
In "Ties That Bind," which aired Thursday night, President Mackenzie Allen, portrayed by Geena Davis, sends 40 U.S. marshals into Prince George's County to stop a crime wave. The president makes a stop in Hyattsville, Md., where, standing in front of a soul food restaurant, she talks to local residents about high crime and a shortage of police.
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Well, in our New PC World, we all know that there are no poor black neighborhoods, that all Muslims are peace loving folks suffering persecution, and that the real terrorists are Southern Baptist white males.
And Bush. Don't forget Bush...
You don't think that Hollywood is going to bring all their expensive equipment into a real poor neighborhood, do you? What, you think they're making a documentary?
Yeah. Not that there weren't hundreds to choose from.
Maybe they should have had a scene where the "happy darkies" were singing on the old plantation. But then that also would probably offend someone.
Way worse than driving through S. Central LA - at least there the boulevards are wide and traffic moves. Post-riot, we'd just run & gun any red lights - it wasn't like cop were going to stop you (if they were even around).
Too much protest and publicity of a televisoin program that was seen by maybe three people.
Nobody gives a crap about this "television drama".
Heh....
PG County is a strange place. Large sections of it are extremely wealthy, huge McMansions.
The hilarious thing is the population of Hyattsville is overwhelmingly Guatemalan and El Salvadoran, not black.
That's why they have to insist on owning the TV cameras and press. Thanks to Fox News, Rush, and the Internet, they can no longer keep hiding their failures.
PG County isn't remotely poor, although I suppose it is by comparison to Montgomery or Fairfax. It's by far the richest majority-black county in the US.
Reminds me of the one episode of The West Wing that I stumbled over while surfing. In that show they had the presidential press secretary commenting on a tornado in Kansas and observing to the press corps that the President was receiving "real time reporting from the ground". It was an absurd thing, but a good example of what some people, and particularly what some TV writers think the Presidency is or should be. It had to be Bill Clinton's habit of appearing on television at the drop of a hat to opine on this or that which gave people the impression that the Chief Executive's role is to get involved in everything and to issue the official opinion on each local event. Ugh. Geena Davis should have taken the guaranteed three year contract!
Prince George's County isn't Compton, but it's still fairly nasty. Columnist Fred Reed rode around with the cops there for a while, and wrote several columns on his experiences
The truth sometimes hurts. Hyattsvile crime level is worse than the national average in the following ways:
- Violent crimes
- robberis
- property crims
- larceny / thefts
- vehicle thefts
http://hyattsville.areaconnect.com/crime1.htm
Eh, the writers didn't really choose the right suburb, probably didn't have anyone actually from the area. Crime is much worse in the southeast suburbs...like Capitol Heights.
And like I said Hyattsville is a Central American, not black, area. Hyattsville is kind of odd, mailing addresses for Hyattsville extend dozens of miles from east of DC to North of DC, the actual town itself is pretty small.
The only news here worth mentioning is they charge for emailing it. With Helen Thomas on the payroll this low rent outfit needs to nickle and dime the lumpen proletariat.
You'd better do some demographic research into place such as Montgomery County, MD, along with Fairfax, Arlington, and Loudon counties VA.
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