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Ok, that wasnt what I was expecting. Kind of depressing
I missed what she did at Duke and Anna's fake wedding. It was sort of strange to have her opening and closing the show, in my opinion, since she's sort of a villain, and I don't know if she's even an contract player.
There are white characters that have been on the show for at least 10 years. The same cannot be said for the black characters. Blacks come and go.
Fine. You asked. However, even if the writers said nothing, the proof is onscreen and clear as day, if you have eyes.
Why do the white characters far, far, far, far outnumber the blacks? There are no black leads. No black couples. No black families. And the few that are on are used as tokens. For example: How often is Epiphany shown?
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There hasn't been a black wedding since Brian and Claudia in the early 80s.
There are no black babies/kids on GH.
No black friendships.
There are no black love scenes on GH. Shawn and Lainey would be a hot, gorgeous black couple....but for some reason, a black couple is not allowed on GH.
Well, I'm not sure what you expect us to do about it here on city-data. Haranguing us about your beef with GH's producers and ABC isn't really productive.
And just because you "read something on an internet message board" doesn't make it true. People, especially people who enjoy ginning up arguments (i.e. trolls) assert false information as fact all the time just to anger others and create something to argue about.
Well, I'm not sure what you expect us to do about it here on city-data. Haranguing us about your beef with GH's producers and ABC isn't really productive.
And just because you "read something on an internet message board" doesn't make it true. People, especially people who enjoy ginning up arguments (i.e. trolls) assert false information as fact all the time just to anger others and create something to argue about.
I read interviews by the writers themselves. Some from the internet. Some from magazines. But if you have eyes, you can easily see that blacks are not treated equal to whites on soaps. Even if they said nothing, their actions speak it.........by not respecting blacks on GH.
There's no beef. I'm just stating and pointing out the lack of blacks on GH. Apparently, GH has a beef with black characters/actors. Which is really sad in the year 2014.
Of course Sabrina will end up pregnant by Patrick! Patrick and Robin can't be happy for more than a few hours, right? If this comes to pass, I'm guessing she passes it off as Carlos', and nosy Felix butts in and spills the beans.
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And obviously they do have something against black people as they are still treated like tokens on the show. General Hospital is racist against blacks!
Oh, good grief ...
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Oh, well.....I realize some questions about soaps (and making sense or living in reality) are pointless and will never be answered to my satisfaction.
Sometimes you just have to suspend reality! None of much what happens on soaps makes sense anyway, right?
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Felix does not have his own story.
Thank the heavens.
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You should be able to find it on the internet. I read about it from some soap boards. Gloria Monty, Jill Phelps (allegedly stated viewers don't want to watch old people and blacks), Robert Guza, and a writer from OLTL named Paul Rauch. Paul Rauch fired Ellen Holly, Al Freeman Jr. and Lillan Hyman simply because they were black. Even Erica Slezak commented about it. Paul Rauch also went over to the show GL and fired all the blacks as well.
Sources for this "information"?
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Claudia, Dara, Simone, Taggert, and Keesha are GH vets? Why can't they return to the show, at least for a few episodes?
Because they were boring? Well, except for Taggert ...
GH does not feature any blacks in frontburner storylines. There are some white writers who have even admitted to not knowing how to write for blacks (which is racist as well. That attitude hints that blacks are not normal as whites) and some even admit to not wanting to write for blacks. The few blacks on the show are used as tokens and rarely given a storyline...........yet many, many, many, many whites are front and center and have been since the beginning of the show. How is that not racist and unequal?
Blacks are ignored on GH and treated as insignificant or afterthoughs.........bottomline.
White racists shun blacks and that's exactly what GH is doing. They keep a few around as merely tokens.
I and many others have already agreed with your thoughts of how soaps do not offer enough representation for blacks. However, why do you insist on repeating yourself post after post? Also, please stop using the word racist if you don't know what it means. In addition, let's please try to keep this thread constructive and positive or I'll ask the mods to delete it. If you would prefer to create a thread so that you can repeat yourself incessantly, please go ahead and do so in a different thread.
I and many others have already agreed with your thoughts of how soaps do not offer enough representation for blacks. However, why do you insist on repeating yourself post after post? Also, please stop using the word racist if you don't know what it means. In addition, let's please try to keep this thread constructive and positive or I'll ask the mods to delete it. If you would prefer to create a thread so that you can repeat yourself incessantly, please go ahead and do so in a different thread.
I haven't seen "many others' agree with me, at least not on this board. You are the only one that seem to agree with me about blacks being ignored on soaps.
Other posters keep asking me the same question, hence I reply to it.
And I know what the word means, and I know what it means when a particular group is ignored.
That's how I feel about GH. Do they know it's the year 2014?
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