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AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 13, 2008, 02:52:33 pm ---
Not a good example if your case is that black people were welcomed on TV here from the start.

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Actually I was curious about his comment, so I did a little searching and found a site that listed african american achievements and it listed the Nat King Cole show, but I didn't look at any details of the show.  Even if he wasn't welcomed, it does at least show that television programs did allow black people on tv, even if it did cause a backlash among the public.

Regardless, comparing chinese television of today with american television of 50 years ago doesn't seem like a very good comparision.  We should be comparing chinese television of today with american television of today, which is what everyone else talking about the subject was doing.

ChadTower:

That site probably isn't correct, then... Cole wasn't the first black person to host a show.  He was the first famous black person to host a show.  There was another musician who had one a few years earlier whose name escapes me now, I think it was actually a woman too.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: GinsuVictim on August 13, 2008, 03:02:19 pm ---Nat King Cole aside, you wouldn't have a black female host a show until Oprah in 1986. The first black star of a network television show wasn't until Bill Cosby in "I Spy" in '65.

Not exactly progress...

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Perhaps, but he didn't say anything about staring roles, he said they were not shown at all.  The little girl singing at the olympics wasn't a star of a major television series, just a little girl with a great voice not pretty enough to be shown for the two minutes or so of the song.

AtomSmasher:

--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 13, 2008, 03:15:02 pm ---
That site probably isn't correct, then... Cole wasn't the first black person to host a show.  He was the first famous black person to host a show.  There was another musician who had one a few years earlier whose name escapes me now, I think it was actually a woman too.

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Possibly.  Heres the site: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmfirsts.html

Could you be thinking of the Hattie McDaniel who won an academy award for best supporting actress in 1940?

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: AtomSmasher on August 13, 2008, 03:20:50 pm ---
--- Quote from: ChadTower on August 13, 2008, 03:15:02 pm ---
That site probably isn't correct, then... Cole wasn't the first black person to host a show.  He was the first famous black person to host a show.  There was another musician who had one a few years earlier whose name escapes me now, I think it was actually a woman too.

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Possibly.  Heres the site: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmfirsts.html

Could you be thinking of the Hattie McDaniel who won an academy award for best supporting actress in 1940?

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After some searching I'm thinking of Hazel Scott in 1950.

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