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...changing. Unlike the sit-in activists of old, today's civil rights leaders have shifted the focus of their lobbying efforts from policymakers to image-makers, reasoning that TV and movies are the most powerful sphere of influence in modern America. A watershed moment came Wednesday, when NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume shook hands with NBC president Bob Wright on a comprehensive plan for NBC to hire more minorities in its creative, production and business divisions. Most notably, NBC will add a minority writer to each show entering at least its second year next fall, a move the network says will...
...decades now, especially in the past couple of years, black actors have complained about being snubbed for starring roles on TV. So after the TV networks announced their fall lineups last spring, Kweisi Mfume arrived in Hollywood with his own script proposal. The N.A.A.C.P. president cast himself as the leading man, a swaggering yet politically correct Terminator of all things racist about Tinseltown. His first mission: to strong-arm the networks into hiring more minorities to work in front of and behind the cameras. Mfume's early salvos had the fire of civil rights rhetoric...
...heartily agree with Kweisi Mfume, the president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), who this summer declared television was "whitewashed." Quicker than you can say "tokenism," television honchos scrambled to add color to their casts...
...find it natural to collude with demagogic race hustlers in supporting a fantasy in which African Americans are no longer responsible for anything negative they do, even to themselves." Shaking down guilt-feeling whites, he says, has allowed "racial ambulance chasers" like Jesse Jackson and the N.A.A.C.P.'s Kweisi Mfume to live like millionaires. If blacks are really oppressed in America, he asks, "why isn't there a black exodus...
...bumped to midseason the heftier black keister of Thurgood Stubbs, animated star of The PJs, in favor of Ally, the half-hour Mini-Me to Ally McBeal and, incidentally, part of the most Caucasian fall lineup in years. It should not have surprised anyone, then, that N.A.A.C.P. president Kweisi Mfume last week issued a similarly spirited directive to the Big Four networks, ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC: Put some color back in prime time, or we'll boycott, possibly even...