Problems persist

It came to my attention tonight while watching a movie, that the problem of minorities not being represented in the media is still prominent, despite what some might believe. A lot of the hit movies of this decade and previous decades, do not feature minorities as the main characters. And if they do, they are from lower class families and from the poorer sections of urban areas. Also they tend to be hooligans in some sort of dance movie as well, or part of a gang or something. Now I realize this is the whole point of the class I am taking, but I thought that maybe we had progressed some. Unfortunately it appears we have not, and it is very similar to when minorities were stereotyped as being lazy and foolish in those old television programs when the color line was first being crossed. It is really a shame that we have not progressed further than we should have.