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             On many shows such as Jerry Springer, The Steve Harvey Show, Girlfriends and many others just to name a few, you always seem to see blacks joking around in places such as the work environment, being overly dramatic in many cases, and acting as if we were "thugs" and "hoochies". Our only goals are portrayed as having fun and not being as serious as a Caucasian person would be. What is becoming more popular today are more middle- class black families who are some what intelligent, yet they still are not as smart as the whites nor do they hold as high of a position in the work force as whites. Because many shows are portraying people to be that way, why wouldn't others think the same? Most viewers that watch the majority of African- American based sitcoms and tacky titled talk shows are people of the opposite race, and they are the main people who make them. From a different perspective, it seems to be difficult in a sense to make characters based on things you know nothing !
             about. Whites have not experienced the everyday situations Blacks have to go through, so how are they supposed to write for these characters, says Bill Cosby (Stereotypes in the Media 3).
             Why are there not more blacks on shows such as ER? On the other hand, maybe if people displayed African- Americans as professionals instead of drug dealers or prisoners, our youth would have more to look forward to, since the television and Internet are our main sources of entertainment this day in age. For example, when The Cosby Show first aired, many people of all races were in awe, mainly because they have never seen or were not used to African Americans being portrayed as an upper class family. The father was a doctor, the mother was a lawyer and a
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