coley: every time you see someone who makes the completely ill informed idea of using blackface as a costume, that was fermented with shows like amos n andy. mother: oh my lord. toofer: you realize this is incredibly offensive? tina fey: yes. toofer: and you realize that blackface makeup re-ignites stereotypes african -americans have worked for 100 s of years to overcome? jacqueline coley: after amos n andy, the idea of people of color, both in front of and behind the scenes becomes less palatable for people who are writing the cheques. patrick gomez: television, it s ultimately there to sell you things, and so advertisers and their input matters. nielsen wasn t even counting black households in their numbers. so of course, you weren t gonna get sitcoms that showed their lives because they didn t care if you were watching or not. billy gray: on father knows best. there wasn t one black person in two hundred and three shows. we had one ethnic person, franc the gardener.
sometimes you need a second opinion. [coughs] good to go. yeah, i think i ll get a second opinion. all these walls gotta go! ah ah ah! i d love a second opinion. no. i m going to get a second opinion. with innovation refunds, there s no upfront cost to find out. so why not check like i did for my small business? take the first step to see if your small business qualifies for the erc. hustleman: yow, check it out, hustleman is in the house malcolm venable: the mid -90s was a golden era for black sitcoms. michael schneider: as fox went with predominantly african-american casts, you had new networks in the wb and upn. that then took that playbook and went with it tia: dad. tamar: mom? tia and tamara: that girl has my face! latoya ferguson: sister sister was on the wb. the wayans brothers. mara brock akil: when the black sitcom was emerging on the upn and the wb you are so joyful, excited,
bambi haggins: the cw just decides not to do sitcoms anymore and that cuts out all black programming. latoya ferguson: it s something fox did earlier, you start your network based on black sitcoms, and then when you get enough viewers, you make the pivot to the quote unquote, more mainstream white audiences, which of course, also gets you better advertisers. aramide: you have this major erasure of people of color except for, you know, side characters. lucas brown eyes: when you are erased from the media, when you when you turn on the television and there are a hundred channels, thousands of shows to stream, and none of them represent you. you start to think you don t matter. dale: hello, my beautiful indian brother. lucas brown eyes: john redcorn, he s a side character on king of the hill. i m not a bare-chested leather vest wearing romeo in texas.
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