You know how they view the past as America being white centric or Euro-centric. Most of the movies were all white casts in the 50-60s and earlier, and they called that Eurocentric.
No that's just the natural result of a majority culture producing art. When those guys who make those funny action movies in Africa on those super cheap budgets, I don't for a second think that they're being "Afro-centric". They're a bunch of Africans who are black who are making movies using the people most around them.
That's what you expect and do see everywhere. In the 1960s and earlier the US black population was very small and people didn't have this retarded idea of equal representation, whatever that's supposed to mean so writers would write based on what their culture was like and things that formed their experience.
Now fast-forward to what they do now, the new Assassin's Creed being just the latest example, that literally IS afro-centric. They accused America in the past of doing something unnatural when it was the natural thing for people who write a story to it be based on THEIR culture, and use that as an excuse to do an actual unnatural thing which is force a distasteful culture on everybody and everything.
One of the worst things to happen to entertainment is the obsession with representation and diversity. Nothing wrong with entertainment reflecting the majority population. There were shows before with non whites that were quite popular but the modern day effort to have equal representation is beyond absurd. I’d say lgbt over representation takes the cake. And then of course you have THE MESSAGE and we get to hear about oppression from wealthy young people.
Oh yea, and period pieces are beyond ridiculous today
And the diversity only goes one way. Not seeing a big push to include whites in traditionally black shows unless they need a strawman to hack at for 30 minutes with commercials
I haven’t seen any modern sitcoms for a while. I remember Sanford and Son had some recurring white characters along with the Cosby Show and Jeffersons. In Hill Street Blues you had white and black characters talking to each other in ways that wouldn’t be allowed today. I was watching the Rookie (cop show about a 40 year old who joins the force) and after Floyd a new cop joins the squad and literally harasses every black person and a black professor needs protection due to a white supremacist militia threatening her. I stopped watching after that
Cosby had to be destroyed. He was a wholesome black man who showed something aspirational to the masses.
He was also using his influence to give speeches to black people to take responsibility for their own communities.