Posted on 01/12/2015 2:10:31 PM PST by QT3.14
According to the latest census data, African Americans make up just over 13% of the US population. That means out of the 317 million people living in the USA, there are about 41 million blacks -- just over the total population of California.
However, looking at the popular culture you'd never know that. Black music dominates popular music. Black culture is how most people define "cool." And most of all, what might offend blacks dominates popular culture, media, education, and entertainment. Fred Reed writes:
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I wonder where all the Hispanic actors in those ads are. I rarely see any Hispanic-looking actors in those ads even though now they supposedly outnumber black Americans.
13% of the population and 100% of commercials.
I have seen an upturn in the number of women stunt drivers in car commercials.
There is a car windshield replacement company that runs a lot of ads (Starlite, I think it's called). The people from the company shown in the ads are always black (although the customers are sometimes white). Does that mean that it's a black-owned company entirely run by black people?
Of course, that's all turned around now. I guess most companies fear lawsuits if they don't include blacks in their commercials. I'm wondering if Hispanics will start agitating for more representation?
Back at the time of the Clinton impeachment trial in 1999, AMC ran an old movie (ca. 1940) about the impeachment of Andrew Johnson which was very sympathetic to President Johnson. I watched part of it and noticed there appeared to be almost no black people in the movie--despite the fact that it was disagreement over how to deal with Reconstruction and the status of the recently-freed slaves that led to Johnson's impeachment.
I said AMC but on reflection I think it was Ted Turner’s network, TCM.
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