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as long as 98% of every character in Hollywood movies and television shows are cracka-ass white, everything is cool right?
Friends was set in NYC and the closest they got to a non-whitey was when Ross almost married that Asian paleontologist.
Seinfeld did the same thing, where nearly everyone they interact with is white, even though they tried to make a joke about it when Costanza tried hard to prove he had a black friend.
Top shows lately,
Breaking Bad - mostly white folks in a largely hispanic state, where blacks and hispanics are shown just as background color to the seedy parts the main characters visit.
Mad Men - Set in NYC in the 60's, a time when tons of blacks and puerto Ricans and Asians were moving to NYC, and they have one black semi-regular character that is used as a prop whenever they want to say something "deep" about black folks, or when a racist character wishes to feel good about themselves by hugging the black character.
Game of Thrones - Even in fantasy realms (hey, especially in fantasy realms. Tolkien was a racist BITCH), nearly everyone of importance is white, and the dark people are led by a whiter than white lady who is not one of them, and the white lady frees all the black and brown slaves.
It is not about being white or being black or brown. "Race" is a fully made-up term that applies only vaguely to any individual human. "Race" has historically been an attempt by white people to designate whiteness at the top of creation while the other "races" are naturally less divine.
If you think that shit is still not around and still not believed by the powerful and mighty, then you have been fooled quite well.
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