Diversity in the media

The amount of diversity that we see in today's media is a growing issue in conversations. Most televisions shows that we do are mostly dominated by the white race and when we do see an African American television show, it isn't something to be proud of. For example, on VH1 we shows like For The Love of Ray J and Flavor of Love and for those who have seen these shows, we know that they are shows with a good influence. It is very interesting to me that the African American shows that we see serve as a bad example for the way people should live their life. Throughout time African Americans have never really had too many television shows and now that we do they still aren't something we can appreciate.
Also in the past the shows that African Americans were in depicted them as happpy to be in the ghetto or striving to be middle class or already being middle class. The have never really depicted blacks in the right way. Also these shows made us believe that all African Americans were trying to reasch this American Dream. For example, look at The Jeffersons and The Cosby Show, they both depict rich black families that are happy with life and there is nothing to worry about. They do not really talk about the struggle blacks had to go through to achieve these benefits. These shows serve as a way of hiding racial oppression of blacks.