[Verginius Rufus]

I've wondered if it's that they fear lawsuits, or shakedowns by Jesse Jackson, or just want to demonstrate how incredibly enlightened they are compared to the "typical white person."

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.

[Verginius Rufus]

I said AMC but on reflection I think it was Ted Turner’s network, TCM.