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<blockquote data-quote="Emelee" data-source="post: 220307" data-attributes="member: 73">They are two separate things and they have nothing to do with each other. We need diversity on TV and we need for it to be as natural as breathing. And they should not be there for the sake of talking racism. They should simply be there because they are humans who plays normal characters with normal problems. None of the cast black people need to be in a story about racism. They just need to be there, period. It&#039;s whole other topic about racism and how it&#039;s portrayed on TV and film. And as I said above, I don&#039;t even think you need one black character present to have a conflict between two characters that is about racism. One thing they shouldn&#039;t do is to never address racism at all, as though it didn&#039;t exist. And it doesn&#039;t even have to be a huge storyline. It would be a simple remark made by someone to get two old friends to fall out. You and I can discuss racism all day long without any of us being black. I can discuss prejudice towards lesbians with another straight woman. A TV show can have one storyline where a black family deals with an illness or a divorce or whatever and another storyline where two old friends fall out because they have a fight after one says something sensitive about race and we get to follow how two old friends struggle with their relationship.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Emelee, post: 220307, member: 73"] They are two separate things and they have nothing to do with each other. We need diversity on TV and we need for it to be as natural as breathing. And they should not be there for the sake of talking racism. They should simply be there because they are humans who plays normal characters with normal problems. None of the cast black people need to be in a story about racism. They just need to be there, period. It's whole other topic about racism and how it's portrayed on TV and film. And as I said above, I don't even think you need one black character present to have a conflict between two characters that is about racism. One thing they shouldn't do is to never address racism at all, as though it didn't exist. And it doesn't even have to be a huge storyline. It would be a simple remark made by someone to get two old friends to fall out. You and I can discuss racism all day long without any of us being black. I can discuss prejudice towards lesbians with another straight woman. A TV show can have one storyline where a black family deals with an illness or a divorce or whatever and another storyline where two old friends fall out because they have a fight after one says something sensitive about race and we get to follow how two old friends struggle with their relationship. [/QUOTE]

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