Stereotypes In The Entertainment Industry

The entertainment industry often promotes negative stereotypes of racial and ethnic groups also known as minorities. Based on the various stereotypes that portray members of certain groups as violent, poorly educated, or unattractive, films and tv shows do not positively or fairly portray minorities. Minorities or more specifically African-Americans and Latino-Americans are the victims of an entertainment industry that makes these baseless beliefs continue.
Blacks have never been considered to be equal to the “white man”, instead they have been seen as second class citizens since the start of what we call America. The media, who has been ran by white men, in fact enhances the negative portrayal of blacks. Stereotypes of blacks such as stupid,