Race should not matter but the media thinks so

I figured that if one or even three dramas show blacks in position of power, that is all right. But even though I named only those few shows, there are others where the blacks are in power or are in charge, but we only see them come on the scene and do boss like orders such as "I want this on my desk by tomorrow morning," or "You should have investigated further." I do not like blacks just in sub servient roles but I would like to see an equal distribution. So my husband was a heavy duty mechanic before he retired, and he had his journey man's papers and everything. And my father was a master sergeant in the army. We want to see blacks in roles equal to ourselves as some of us have men in the family who are doctors, lawyers, pastors, short order cooks, take orders from others, etc. But it seems the media has it's intention to if there is a boss role, give it to the blacks. Why not vary the roles?
House was trying to get out of that drug he used because of his pain from his leg and he had problems because his father died. He entered treatment and Foreman used that opportunity to become head, even though Chase and the others still consider House in charge. So Foreman took advantage of House's absence.
In a way, one of the blacks who are in the top roles as bosses are trying to let the media know that they do not like the idea of writing in scripts where the white guy is fired or demoted so they can get the role.
I think the media does not have the idea if inspiring blacks to try harder and go to university, but the idea of getting even with the whites for the slavery issue. The trouble is that not every white person is a descendant of a slave owner.

Ah yes but they are hoping that we will. I remember years ago, when we were trying to get pregnant. There were lots of shows where the married couple were sterile or infertile and trying to get pregnant and there was always an unmarried girl who got pregnant the first time and was trying to keep her baby. Why I thought the only way to get pregnant at that time was to take off my wedding ring before my husband and I made love.

and you see the ring had nothing to do with it.
Not even the movies had anything to do with it.
am sorry you couldnt get PG but just some people just cant . with nothng to do with anything they think they might be doing wrong

We did adopt, but I often felt it was my fault because I was wild in my late teens. The doctor told us that it was rare for familial als to start when someone is 60 and if it was that, it was a good thing that I did not get pregnant. That, however, did not make me feel any better. Als has no blame to it, but living a wild life, and getting vd does.

How did you know this was going to happen to you, YOU DIDNT! Not really your fault alot of us were wild!

The trouble was that there were a lot of wild girls out there, but I was the one who got caught.

true!

I hope so too. I did see a show that was on Showcase where the boss was a Mexican American. It was about these crooked cops - I forgot the name, but it had this bald guy as the top actor. And I remember a show where the sheriff was an American Indian. It was based in Kansas. I guess it did not last long because the top guy was not an African American. I mean if they are trying to over compensate the blacks for what some people did in the South, are they not going out of revenge and not justice?
Seems giving the best parts to one ethnic group would only increase racism instead of decreasing it.

I do think that positions should be varied and not that "the boss has to be a black man" It does not happen here in Canada and other then the scene shot showing the CN Tower. The one thing that shows it is made here in Canada is that the boss that scolds everyone for not doing their jobs could be an aborigine, white, Chinese, Japanese, from mars etc. And some of the shows in the States show how unfair their affirmative action is as in Numb3rs when that black guy got the job as second in command when his partner had worked under cover and had just as much experience. And his life was in greater danger.

I do not like the idea of stereotypes and I think every ethnic group has some bad people in it and they should not just say "oh we are all perfect and we do not want to be put in a negative light." What happens is then people assume that because that ethnic group is all portrayed as heroes even when they are doing evil things that once they become in charge, they will save the world, everything will be hon(ky dory but when someone of an ethnic group who is portrayed as bad, when one of their's is in charge, they think that he is a hypocrite, and when something goes wrong - not a good way of being fair.

It has been canceled over here. But in America, they have this guilt complex because from the 1600s to the mid 1800s blacks or negro type people were brought over as slaves and even the practice was abolished back in the 1860s, there is still guilt about and the only way the media feels that they have to compensate besides giving their descendants lots of money is to make them look good in tv shows, etc.
I guess where you live, there are only a few American shows imported to Spain and it is harder to get American shows when there is an ocean between.
But here in Canada, especially in the southern part, it is easy for us to get American shows and we can see the trends right away. I remember back in the 1970s where there were a lot of space shows, and no matter what, all the space ships looked alike.

Hi suspenseful,

Got back to you a bit late but really sorry to hear that they have cancelled the Show. Well at least they will show the repeats from time to time.
My very favourite ever amongst a few of them was "The Hill Street Blues" we never see any repetitions here of that as an example.
However "Without A Trace" was becoming one of my favourites just as I was getting to like it. Good quality acting well put together Police Intrigue Series would give it my highest marks if it were in any kind of charts.
We do see about five or six Series around but they are usually all spread around the other Television Channels so you never or hardly ever get two American Series in a Day.
Take "Medium" for instance it was repeating repeat after repeat now we have one new episode and one older one from another Season so not too bad. Quite like that one too.
Take care now.

There was one show I really watched and that was Third Watch. It ended quite nicely and that was rare and it showed what happened to the main characters and there was none of the "one ethnic group is more important then the others," because the writers were very careful to give everyone a chance. I do not watch Medium that much. But I do miss Without a Trace. I would rather the show has a proper ending when it is canceled instead of being left up in the air.