Slavery 2

Remember when this blog hardly had any race stuff on it? Oh - those were the days. Then white folks started jumping on my last George Zimmerman-loving nerve and we, both, now have to get a steady diet of this:

For decades, television networks routinely aired shows with few cast members of color, no matter how absurd.  Friends was famously set in New York City, but rarely bothered to show a face of color walking by. The list of similar shows over the years goes on and on and on with both comedies and dramas failing to showcase minorities in the core of plot lines. 

Oddly enough, those same network producers, writers, and executives would never dream of casting any show related to prisons without featuring people of color in prominent roles. In shows that pertain to the criminal justice system, particularly those held behind bars, black people are suddenly “must haves.” At least they are if the storyline is to be “real” in any way. 

Suggesting New Yorkers can go years at a time without seeing a person of color is somehow completely believable, while a prison sans significant numbers of black people isn’t?  Utter nonsense at its best, I say.

And that's why, whenever I look outside, I wish white folks had just left this race shit alone:

It just looks too different,...