This! There was an article a couple years ago (when Will Smith was mad about not winning an Oscar) that took a count of the number of blacks (and LGBT) in major roles versus whites and found that both were over represented compared to amount of population. Then taking it one step further, the amount of nominations for black actors for Oscars was actually very much in line with the over representation in number of back actors in roles as well.
I frankly don’t want to get into “counting” every actor by race, for every show and movie and play. That’s silly. Identify politics seen as “art” (like the musical Hamilton) is a bizarre idea to me. Race alone doesn’t make it “art” or even good for that matter! And it detracts when it is actually IS good!
Not enough black people on TV? What channel are you watching? Andy Griffith reruns from the 60s?
This! There was an article a couple years ago (when Will Smith was mad about not winning an Oscar) that took a count of the number of blacks (and LGBT) in major roles versus whites and found that both were over represented compared to amount of population. Then taking it one step further, the amount of nominations for black actors for Oscars was actually very much in line with the over representation in number of back actors in roles as well.
I frankly don’t want to get into “counting” every actor by race, for every show and movie and play. That’s silly. Identify politics seen as “art” (like the musical Hamilton) is a bizarre idea to me. Race alone doesn’t make it “art” or even good for that matter! And it detracts when it is actually IS good!