“White Racists’ Dreams in TV Land”

In this article I am striving for understanding and empathy. So please give me just a few minutes of your time and if what I say means 100% nothing to you, please let me and everyone else know in the reply section. I am hoping to reach the targeted audience mentioned in the title. Finally, please understand, I don’t want to say, “white racists” every time, so for the most part, I’m going to blanket it to “white people” and when needed, there will be a clear distinction between the two.

Since screens small and large were made, and even before with live plays, the characters were white people. Is that a problem? Not at all. Is that a symptom of a problem? Not at all. When a person was used who was dark skinned, the audience would jeer, throw objects, and curse the performer. Was that a problem? Yes, and for the producer more than the performer. Writers and such have ideas and visions and need certain people to achieve their goals. The rejection of darker skin tones and different ethnicities made making money difficult for such ideas. With the inability to expose the talent they desired, directors and writers had to use the face of the mainstream in most cases and various tones of red and black makeup in others. Think for a moment about how some white people may have felt about society, when they had to portray the race of the unaccepted, simply to get what should have been a harmless…