;tamale”, which is considered as a slur to Hispanics. The term was later dubbed over as “honey”, before the broadcast, but Latino groups quickly condemned the usage. And the consensus among the minority community was that if there were more minorities executives, the whole situation would have been avoided. At the six broadcast networks, there are about 80 people in programming positions of vice president or above. Only twelve are minorities. At the WB, of the 11 upper programming level jobs, there are no minorities. “The decision makers are people who live in Bel Air, Malibu, and Brentwood.”, says Paris Barclay, who is the co executive producer on the show “City of Angels”, “They are just not sensitive to the fact that America looks different from the America that they are living in.”. At Columbia studios Chris Lee was the highest-ranking minority, and he was the only one. Except for Time-Warner’s Richard Parsons and Barry Meyer, there are no minorities at the top of the film industry. And there are practically none at the next tier either. Minorities have come a long way in the last hundred years. From the slaves being freed after the Civil War, to the preaching of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, and all other great minority leaders and people who have paved the way for us. All of their work has paid of cause look where we are now. Now it is time to take over the entertainment industry at all facets. Just like the great leaders paved the way for freedom and equality, we will do the same. We will pave a new road in the entertainment industry, for all of the up and comers, so that there dreams an come true. ...
