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Originally posted by lurkette
Diversity itself is not sufficient - it's also HOW minorities are portrayed.
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This is why its so easy to find movies with white guys as the bad guys and so hard to find them with other races. People are so sensitive on HOW they are portrayed that you can’t portray them in any light that’s not positive, or at least mitigated. If you have a black bad guy you better have a black hero, or at the very least have white bad guys with the black bad guy. Same goes for Arabs lately. If you only got your info from movies, you would swear the world was full of white Nazi like terrorists.
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Most television news is very skewed - think about how many times you see a black person arrested or on trial on your local news - and has a profound impact on peoples' perceptions of the world.
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This is the reason they won’t tell you the race of a suspect on the news anymore. But you have to ask is this censorship good? Does trying to hide crimes committed by minorities to make people feel better about them justify censoring the news? Let me give you an example. In Philadelphia they printed the pictures of murder suspects at large in the city on the cover of the paper. Of them all were black except one, who was Hispanic. The paper took all kinds of heat and apologized for printing the pictures. Now think about this, these men were ALL wanted for MURDER. The paper tried to make it easier to find them, and they were called racists for it and had to say SORRY for showing the pictures of MURDERERS. From what I understand there were no white murderers on the run at the time.
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So...one, minorities want to be fairly represented to white people so white people will have a more realistic and balanced perception of individuals of other races.
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Fairly? Again they don’t want it realistic and balanced, they want it skewed in their favor (at least their vocal left wing leaders). More crimes are committed by whites then blacks in the US. That’s a fact, but as a % of population more crimes are committed by blacks then whites. If they wanted it realistic and balanced they wouldn’t be worried about truthful telling of the news. There is something wrong with a system that hides the race of a criminal. Of course for even saying these things, it makes me a racist in the eyes of the average liberal, which I am not, but I am a realist. Hiding a problem never fixs a problem.
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Second, minorities themselves are not immune to the effects of media portrayal. And it's just nice to see people like you, people you identify with, in the media. It makes you feel less marginalized, less invisible.
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Now this I agree with, though in Chicago they are going one step further where it is almost impossible to tell the race of some of the news people.