8. Glee
OK, so this show isn’t that old, but it’s definitely old news. Glee was careful to gather a cast built on diversity. You’ve got the African-American girl, a couple of Asians, even a disabled kid. But scratch the surface of the popular series, and things begin to stink.
The black cast member is a full-figured gal with an attitude and a huge voice. The Asians are both driven to succeed and feel pressured by their families. Heck, the show even has a dumb blonde in the mix just for laughs. Glee got a ton of early criticism for shoving all the kids “of color” to the back of the cast and giving most of the story to the white cast members, a problem the show later rectified but without any real pizzazz or commitment. The show perpetuated a lot of stereotypes about black people, Asians and Hispanics, and that’s nothing to sing about.
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