NAACP vs. TV Networks

As many of you may have heard, the NAACP is threatening to launch a boycott against TV networks, and their beef is that blacks have been “underrepresented” in new TV shows. IIRC, the US population is roughly 15% black, whereas the new TV shows contain 12% black characters. (I saw these figures in an earlier thread, I don’t remember the name.)

It appears to me that the NAACP has gone mad with power.

First of all, TV shows are fiction. Since when did works of fiction have to emulate, represent, or reflect the real world in any way, shape, or form.

And if the figures that I mentioned are correct, I hardly think the difference is worth launching a boycott over.
Is the NAACP justified in its threat, or are they just full of s–t?


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I wasn’t aware that the NAACP had so much “power” that they could “go mad” with it. :::see my bemused look:::

I suppose I just assumed that the announcement was some sort of political ploy, along the lines of Mel Brooks’ “we’ve got to protect our phony-baloney jobs.” Give an interview, stage a protest, arrange a boycott, I think it pretty much boils down to the same thing.

Frankly, I don’t think the networks are terribly worried. Other special-interest groups have tried to arrange boycotts before, and you see how much the television industry has altered in order to accommodate them. :rolleyes:


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Why do we have two current threads covering this topic in this forum? I’m confused enough already!

well there a lot of black shows, mostly on UPN and the WB… but the problem is, is that they just blow.

i think the NAACP just wants to see a black show that gets high ratings. then they’ll shut up.


I wasn’t aware that the NAACP had so much “power” that they could “go mad” with it.

They certainly seem to think they do, except they probably wouldn’t admit to going mad.

Why do we have two current threads covering this topic in this forum? I’m confused enough already!

There’s another one? I didn’t see it.


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