token white characters added to Black shows unappreciation

[Off the Onion]

LOL that was 25 years ago yes and you're still upset?

 

[Tiffrock]

How do my coli brehs feel about Jim Carrey and In Living Color?

Him and the white girl from early in the series were funny as hell

 

[Pinyapplesuckas]

best one

there was an actual white guy on Martin too in the early radio station seasons

 

[Tiffrock]

there was an actual white guy on Martin too in the early radio station seasons

Yep I remember him

 

[ORDER_66]

LOL that was 25 years ago yes and you're still upset?

I'm still kinda pissed the killed off eddie... should have gave them all a damned raise...

 

[O³ (O cubed)]

Fox had a lot of black shows yet its news network is

 

[Alvin]

i felt like this was more believable bc went to a mostly white school. Now if he had a friend that lived in that neighborhood it would be stupid

 

[BrothaZay]

Hillary in fresh prince

 

[Kane1]

I’ll be a c00n

I'll allow it

 

[Cave Savage]

Surprised nobody mentioned Tommy Egan yet

 

[DaRealness]

 

[get these nets]

Fredd

Freddie's cousin was the redhead who began dating Kim the pre-med. Didn't he pledge a black frat and there was some in-story controversy?

nah, that was my brother Byron,chief

the white cousin dated Kim... the Colonel's bi-racial son pledged the frat

 

[Benefited]

There was no other reason to watch that show AT ALL!

How quickly you nikkas forget







And she had that mean walk too?White girl wasn't carrying it like that,Proffesors girl was definitely one of my reasons for watching The Parkers,and the only reason my young ass EVER watched Homeboys In Outer Space.

 

[get these nets]

It's my legit opinion & I only just came to this conclusion within the last year or so.

I used to sorta feel the same way you do about about token white characters in black TV shows & films. But I thought about and when it comes down to it, black TV shows & films are being produced and/or distrubuted by white Hollywood studios just like the white tv shows/films are. And whites & non-blacks reguarly watch black TV shows & films, so of course Hollywood studios/networks are gonna want token white chracters in these black tv shows/films that they produced/distribute.


And they can justify it by the fact that they put token black chracters all the time in white tv shows/films, especially nowadays with so many tv shows with a black lead/co-lead or Black chracters as part of the regular cast because of Hollywood's diversity push the last several years.

last year or so?....sure the white gf had nothing to do with the change of heart?

When a new character is added to a show, the hope is that it's seamless or that the character adds something to the show.
When these aren't the cases, audience is going to react negatively.
Take these examples of Black characters added to Black shows
Thelma's husband on Good Times & Cole's girlfriend on Martin

When a white character is just randomly thrown on a Black show, chances of it not working are increased.
And it becomes obvious that the actor is just there to attract white viewers.

 

[NYSTATEOFMIND]

How did Tommie from "Martin" do "Martin" & "New York Undercover" at the same time?

good one