invented by blacks and stolen by the white man. of course, in 2006, upn merged with the wb to become what we know as the cw. the cw, it just decides not to do sitcoms anymore and that cuts black programming. 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 main stream white audiences, which of course, also gets you better advertisers. you have this major people of color except for side characters. when you are erased from the media, when you turn on the television and there are 100 channels, thousands of shows to stream and none of them represent you, you start to think you don t matter. hello my beautiful indian