The entertainment industry used to be far more exploitative towards blacks than it is now and a lot of that progress was made because black entertainers vocally demanded a better deal. There are a lot of blacks in the middle and bottom of the industry, but very few, at the top (Quincy Jones? Oprah?). Despite being over represented in media, black entertainers are still fighting to reach that mountain top and I see these kinds of statements as being representative of that struggle.
|