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Where where where??

posted 14 years ago by buckaroobanzai50
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Where are the black and asian people, I kept asking myself. There was only one regular black character in the series, Viv the sargeant, that would appear for about 5 minutes in total in each episode. And what happened to him? He decided to help his brother escape from prison, then got killed off!!! I'm surprised he lasted more than one episode. Virtually no Indian asians as main characters, that I can think of. I can recall seeing a chinese/japanese girl in one ep, in the BACKGROUND I might add.

Oh!!! Silly me. I forgot the ONE all black episode, full of supposed South Africans. They were well segregated in the series then. LOL!

I think the writers were a bit too PC, and afraid to tackle some realistic issues regarding racism in the police force, etc.

[–] grendelkhan 13 years ago

Maybe, but they did cover that in LoM, so maybe they didn't want to repeat themselves.

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."-Groucho

[–] Hammerfanatic46 13 years ago

There was an entire episode in Series One which centered round the murder of a black woman and the grief of her family.

Gordon P. Clarkson

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[–] buckaroobanzai50 13 years ago

Like the silly people writing reams of postings who couldn't understand why there were no black advertising execs and secretaries in the NYC advertising firm in "Mad Men" in 1960. For heaven's sake.
Actually, there WERE a few black ad execs struggling to break through in New York of the '60s. I learned this via the Selling America documentary. Nothing to do with not being alive back then, that's preposterous clap trap.

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[–] buckaroobanzai50 13 years ago

Why do minorities only need to be seen in a series, when it concerns racism?? This is ALL their lives revolved around is it? Sounds like segregation, or worse SLOPPY SCREENWRITING.

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[–] raf-33 12 years ago

Well atleast buckaroo will be happy to know that in Merlin Guinevere is black, possibly the first black person in Britain aswell, a full 2,000 years before any others arrived here.

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[–] Scaar_Alexander 11 years ago

Yes indeed, raf-33. Antiracists don't mind a little distortion of historical reality.