racial stereo typing

In the world we live in today everything we see, hear and sometimes experience is through the media. In everything we see in the media between movies that we watch, reality shows or even the news there’s always a message behind it or a concept that many of us don’t understand. In the media there is a lot of racial stereo typing showing the audience how people should look or how a certain race behaves. Basically categorizing different races and cultures sometimes are making jokes about a certain race or showing a negative message about certain people. What does the average White American think when he or she sees an African- American? If it's someone who watches a lot of television, they may assume that s/he is dumb, dishonest, lazy, and ignorant. They portray images that all African Americans are good at sports mainly basketball. All African American sell drugs and they all live in “ghettos” and sports or drugs is the only way out of the ghetto. A good example of the stereotyping of these shows is in the show Good Times. This show features the Evans family. James Evans, the father, can hardly read or write, so he is forced to take low-paying jobs. The family lived in “the projects” and was small space, with five people in a two bedroom apartment. The projects that they lived in had "roach, winos, junkies and muggers around". The family lives in a typical "ghetto" in Chicago. Good Times did show Civil Rights Protests, and other non-stereotypical issues, but on the whole, it is a great example of how the media portrayed African-Americans to be.
Good Times is just one of many shows that placed African-Americans in this negative state of mind. As in Good Times, there have been few roles that African-American actors traditionally played. Most of these traditional roles all showed blacks as lazy, uneducated, or just plain dumb. Later on in time though you had shows such as The Cosby Show and Fresh Prince of Bel Air. These shows showed that not all black