this writer explores a theme i've been touching the edges of occasionally. blackness in the empire has changed over the years and here's some evidence;

Unless you’ve been living under a rock or have thrown your television out the window, you’ve probably noticed how frequently Blacks are shown on TV and in the movies. It’s not like the old days when token Black actors played minor and inconsequential roles. Blacks were rarely portrayed as important persons in professional roles such as doctors, lawyers, school administrators and scientists because it didn’t reflect their actual place in society. Such portrayals would have been seen as contrived and unrealistic by most Americans because there were comparably few Blacks who were doctors, lawyers, school administrators and scientists.

Blacks in television and the movies were commonly portrayed as hustlers, pimps, and low-level street criminals. They were rarely portrayed as college-educated, and those Blacks who sought to obtain an education were often depicted as attending night school to get their high school diploma. This wasn’t a cruel and “racist” portrayal of Blacks, but one that accurately characterized what far too many of them were like (and yes, there were exceptions then just as there are exceptions now).

Those days are over. Today, almost every commercial and almost every movie features a Black person in a leading role. This has been occurring for at least the past five years. At first it was gradual, but it wasn’t long before it increased to the point where even ‘normies’ began to recognize an obvious pattern of overrepresentation of Blacks or “people of color” on television. Foreigners watching American television might be tempted to think that Blacks are the dominant U.S. demographic, yet they comprise only slightly above 12% of the overall population. Even at 12%, it’s a dangerously high number when one considers the skyrocketing levels of crime Blacks in America commit. They have managed to make unsafe and almost unlivable every major U.S. city — a truth the mainstream media refuses to concede even though it’s abundantly apparent that America has a serious Black crime problem.......more..........