If you read the LA Times today you may have noticed the NAACP is demanding that the Entertainment industry immediately redress what the Association regards as an unacceptable racial imbalance in the casting of TV and movies; The article goes on to explain there could be severe and undisclosed penalties, which a spokesman said would include “shaming the industry,” if the required corrections were not immediately forthcoming.
So if I’m reading this correctly, an entirely unelected and increasingly extraneous group of attention-addicted political pundits are demanding immediate action and complete supplication from an industry by whom they are owed no compliance at all, requiring what they clearly regard as their indentured subjects to begin loading their shows with Actors of color, regardless of talent or fitness for the roles they might then acquire.
Were this baseless obligation to be met with anything other than tactful indifference the entire TV industry would then be compelled to choose a show’s cast by ‘the color of their skin, not the content of their character’…Which is exactly the same kind of bigoted, ethnicity-based favoritism the NAACP would be falling over each other to decry and denounce – in front of as many news cameras as they could possibly find – were its literal opposite to be enacted instead.
Is it me, or do you find it strange how hypocrites only complain when the act they despise is done to them, not by them?
