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SERVES them RIGHT to get CANCELED! Haha


this show was rightly canceled for being too white. What, 7 cast members and not one of them black, latino or asian? but about half jewish? I exaggerate but not by much.

Especially those of us who witnessed the shameful hypocritical display at their press conference by the launch of their show, will feel vindicated.
After 4 or 5 evasive answers why there were no black, latino or asian character in a seven or eight cast member show, the producers, who also gave us lily white Friends for 10 years:

"Eeeeh ... we could NOT FIND ANY?"

WHAT ??!!!!!

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I wonder if this reasoning explains 'Girlfriends'?

Open your eyes, troll, 'race focused' shows exist, not all of the are white-centric. Thanks for trying though.

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There are no blacks, latinos or asians in my circle of friends so it's not hard to
believe that a group of people can all be of one race.

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I had someone tell me on Sunday that they couldn't be a racist because they were black ^^

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oooooooooooooooooooooooooh black racists!! I'm sure that's the discovery of the century.

Black people behaving negative towards whites, that's racism?

Racism is threating others unjustified badly only because they are of a certain race, not because of their behavior.

1.300 years of slavery and their aftermath is more than enough justified ill-will against whites by black people. Nothing unjustified about that.
2. As a group vs. group thing, black 'racism' has no meaning. As a group, black people wield too little power and are too few for white people to feel seriously threatened.

On the other hand, blacks have perfectly legitimate reasons to feel threatened:

- white people outnumber black people 10 to 1,
- white violence against blacks is perfectly acceptable in large parts of the country, as well as historical fact, so yes,
- Hitler is a hero in large parts of the south. In some parts not, true.
South-African Apartheid was defended by many in this country, including Rumsfeld and Cheney.


'Black racism' is some stupid invention by whites as some excuse for their own racism.
Plus, whites aren't barred from jobs, or the voting booth by blacks. Or large-scale racism like that.
So yes, 'black racism' its pretty much an impossibility.

"Ooh, did you see that! The black man looked at my wife funny! And he called me names too!"
"That's it. What a racist! We are totally within our rights to lynch him and his whole family now! May god bless Ameh'ca!"


Whatever.

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Goddammit, why has everything got to be racial with people, almost every dam board ive been on on this site for film, tv or anthing always has someone moaning about racism, just lighten up for christ sake. So what theres all white in this show, who cares, what law says there has to be black or asian people in every single film or tv show made. Now im far from a racist person, i have black friends and have had asian and other races of friends in the past, but i still dont see what the problem is about this show and Friends for that matter. It focuses on a white group of friends, so what they dont have other races in their group, not everybody knows people in other races, so just leave it out with the dam racial comments.

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I'm sorry but "Black racism" is a humongous cop out.

I'm talking about the usa, but im sure the BNP is very much alive in the uk, still.

You act almost as if "Black racism" has the same negative effects as white racism. This is not so, simply because real racism is a proven factor in barring blacks from jobs and the voting booth. (Again, I'm talking about the usa, where in Florida in 2000, all sorts of scams were going on to keep blacks from voting or disqualifying the votes of counties with a high percentage of black voters.)

Yes, here and there, white people suffer from negative behaviour from blacks towards them. Theoretically. I haven't seen any reports that this occurs large scale in any sort of way.
On the other hand, there have several studies done, on the job market that job applicants with muslim or african name will almost automatically get rejected for any type of job, even with the same or better qualifications.

There's a very simple, cheap experiment you can do yourself. Simply send 50 CV's with an African (Nigerian) sounding names and 50 CV's with a typical English name like "Nigel" or something like that to some company who's looking to hire.
Then count how many in each group gets rejected.
Invariably, especially in the USA, UK and Denmark, blacks get rejected more than whites. I have to add, so do women and older people, but this actually makes it worse, not better.

You assume some sort of equality with regards to racism of both groups. There is none. White racism is more violent (lynchings) more intense, has a longer history than any sort of black racism, by staggering amounts.

Slavery and all that followed gives blacks good reason to hostile towards whites. The reverse is simply not true.



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Black racism doesn't exist??? The word racism doesn't mean "white people hating black people", it means anyone of any race hating others of a different race simply because of their skin colour.

And you know, there are areas of the world where whites are in the minority and are treated badly by the blacks, simply because of their skin colour - a woman whom my mother knows lives in South Africa with a white South African and they suffer terrible racism from the local black people.

The slave trade was mentioned - it was an awful awful thing, but most white people today agree it was awful and weren't involved in it in any way so they don't deserve to be hated. It's not white peoples' faults that white people of the past were disgusting people. And in Britain it was a white man that pushed the bill through in Parliament to end the slave trade - should he be hated too?

Yeh there are still whites today who are racist towards blacks, but lumping all whites together and saying "I hate all whites because they are ALL racist" is wrong too, because it's a minority of white people overall who are racist.

And how come there's black people out there who are millionares? Who own companies, are part of the government, or whatever. Those people aren't sitting whining how "white people are favoured for jobs" - they've ignored that that happens in some cases, got their heads down and worked their way up.

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Um, so explan to me all the Tyler Perry shows, and Bernie Mac show, etc, etc, etc...

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huh_oh_i_c, you are an F-ing RETARD. You're just trying to find a place to cry "racism" somewhere. I can't believe you would be happy with a token black guy. If you didn't like The Class, you could've just switched over to an all black show...most likes on the CW.

Many whites don't hang out with black people because they act like you and pretend everyone is a racist. The fact is, many black people act like the stereotypical black person, i.e., loud and obnoxious. And most blacks, don't hang out with whites...for whatever reason, I don't know. MAYBE BLACKS ARE JUST RACIST?! Hmm...

Is it racist that there are WAY MORE all black shows than all white shows? Is it racist to have a token black person as you so clearly think there should be? Is it racist that blacks get an entire month dedicated to themselves, yet whites do not?

Racism is basically noticing the difference in races. That fact that you even sit there and complain about the lack of blacks or Asians or Hispanics clearly shows you are a racist. Fact is: I don't refuse to hang out with blacks...I refuse to hang out with obnoxious people. Maybe they never refused to have a black character...maybe they just refused to have a black person play a part when they had a white person do better in the audition. I'm sure if a talented black person like Will Smith had auditioned for any role...he would have won it.

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They did have a Latino.

A gay Latino.

You remember? Kyle's boyfriend, Aaron. Holly always kept going on about how she couldn't understand him. And he spouted off in Spanish a few times.

And Melanie Deacon. Albeit, for one episode.

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how comes its ok to have all black sitcoms like fresh prince of bel air or my wife and kids and etc but dare they make a programme where it so happened to be all white crew and they are racists but the all black sitcoms aren't racist.

if you can tell me why its racists for whites but not for blacks then i'll be happy to hear

and btw I'm not racist, cos I am mixed race from both sides.

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considering that 66% of the population is caucasian and there is some unofficial segregation (black schools, white schools, hispanic schools)
it is not far fetched that a kindergarten class was mostly white
yet the pc police version of every color of the rainbow would be unrealistic for me

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You're pretty much all idiots..

Anyone that judges anyone for anything they had no part in selecting (race, gender, sexual orientation) is WRONG!!

To say one group is more entitled to HATE a group of people because things happened in the past (granted, they're horrible things) is completely moronic..

For instance, your sister murders someone in cold blood.. Are you a murderer? Should you be imprisoned because you're of the same blood?

Someone that goes to the same church you do with kills someone of a different religion.. Does that mean that you and EVERYONE in your religion is a bigoted murderer? That you should be imprisoned because you have prayed in the same building at the same time to the same god?

There is nothing in the world that warrants blind hatred.. Not the past, not speculation of the future.. If nobody has specifically harmed YOU, your hatred is unjust and you are no better than they are..

Hatred is wrong.. It just is.. And anyone that makes excuses for anyone else (be it killing a black man or a woman or a homosexual) is as bad as the murderer, because they're giving out excuses to let it happen again..


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Bravo starrymike-1! Very, very well said!

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"this show was rightly canceled for being too white. What, 7 cast members and not one of them black, latino or asian? but about half jewish? I exaggerate but not by much. "

Haha, yeah, because Seinfeld was so unsuccesful ;D

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Dude, that was so RACIST!!!

And BTW Joey tapped that black chick.

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Lets face it - all those races you mentioned arent good looking or nice to have in a comedy. Its bad enough you got to encounter them on the street!!! At least with TV we can live in a better world.

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