Anybody else notice how Law & Order unabashedly seeks to perpetuate false racial stereotypes in every episode? Gee, I wasn’t aware that every black person in NYC was a violent pack hunting mandingo with no realistic concept of the meanings of right and wrong or the mental acuity to grasp the subtleties of the legal system as represented by fictional Unibrow Assistant DA’s, and I’d like to thank Dick Wolf for pointing that out. Shithead.
Sorry, not much of a rant, but I’m fuckin tired.
Do you ever actually watch “Law and Order” ?
I feel dirty just responding to you.
“Law and Order” is such a racist show that Paul Robinette, Anita Van Buren and Ed Green are all intelligent, upstanding characters played by black people? I see.
I think you need to take off those dark sunglasses, dude.
:rolleyes:
What’s a mandingo?
These episodes of L&O dealt predominantly with black/white issues (may have missed some):
Conspiracy
Entrapment
Poison Ivy
Out of the the Half-Light (Tawana Brawley rip–McCoy won against troubled but lying girl)
Profile
Sanctuary
Rage (Killer of fellow stockbroker tried “black rage” defense, but the jury found that even though he had occasionally been treated badly at the firm he was still a calculating murderer)
Custody (junkie mother tried to get back child who’d been adopted by white couple)
Blood
DWB (rip of James Byrd case)
Haven
Black, White and Blue (white AND black cop abandon snotty white kid in Harlem right after racial incident)
Catch some of these when they re-run and you’ll see that L&O is a lot more complicated then you think. Besides, the characters of Robinette, Ed Green, and especially Van Buren belie your argument that blacks on the show are all alike. The great Shambala Green and Ben Stone would have racial discussions that were fascinating about black morals in the face of so much racism. I agree that sometimes it falls into the trap of saying that all the African-Americans in New York will quickly form angry mobs to defend any black defendent accused of harming someone of another race even if the blood is still dripping from his hands, but in those lights they seem to say the same thing about Jews, Latinos, white cops, the Irish, and old friends of Adam Schiff 
BTW, I’m just asking for trouble now but I’m probably one of the few people who actually got taught a sorta PC version of the Sambo story in school. It was the early 70’s, in New York City, and Sambo (the “Black” part was left out of the title) was presented as just another fairy tale with a hero who was smarter and more resourceful than the passive German and French kids like Hansel and Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella who needed princes and fairy godmothers to rescue them. Sambo rescued himself and outwitted the tigers, getting butter to take home to his smiling parents, whose names weren’t given and who looked very dignified. I defer, of course, to anybody who gets offended by the story and don’t think it should be taught nowadays even if it means that there’s no black faces in the fairy tale books, but I just wanted to mention that there’s more than one way to look at the story.
My point exactly, and made better than I was able to last night. I’m by no means the L&O junkie that my girlfriend is. My work schedule generally precludes my catching the new episodes; I usually watch the reruns on A&E when TLC isn’t showing Junkyard Wars (bring it back NOW, fuckers!!!). My sampling of episodes is small and unscientific, but the behavior of many of the black characters often strikes me as particularly outlandish.
Maybe you should try ‘Homicide’ on CourtTV if Law and Order pisses you off.