Black columnist: "Too many blacks on TV"

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Erik Rush, a black columnist for WorldNetDaily, complains (h/t Ed Brayton) in his latest column that too many black people are given leading roles on TV shows.

As a result of the dim view this president has cultivated, and its potential cultural blowback, it appears that the producers of certain television shows might have come on board to effect damage control in this area. In order to to counter the perception of ineptitude that has come about associated with Obama and his lack of leadership skills, an effort seems to have been made to portray blacks in high places as competent leaders in dramatic roles.

To be fair, some of these occurrences took place prior to Obama actually taking office, but a good case could be made that it was the intent of these organizations to prepare the American public for the leadership of a black individual via positive portrayals of black leaders. I would contend that America needed no such preparation, but that's another issue. The stronger argument exists in these concerned parties making their efforts in the face of Obama's subsequent plummeting popularity.

In any case: Within the past two years, the producers of several popular police dramas have made wholesale replacements of Caucasian leadership figures with black characters.

Rush cites: CSI, NCIS, Castle, Fringe, and The Mentalist as examples of how black characters are replacing white characters in leading roles.

Gee, what kind of person (regardless of race) has a mind this dirty to think this way? Rush must be getting a big-time bonus from WND to write this kind of shit. Was Rush sleeping through the past four decades when many popular TV sitcoms had primarily black casts, including The Jeffersons (1975-1985), 227 (1985-1989), The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990-1996), Family Matters (1989-1998), Good Tines (1974-1979), Benson (1979-1986), The Bernie Mac Show (2001-2006), and The Steve Harvey Show (1996-2002)?

The commenters on Brayton's blog entry call out Rush:

(#8) Naturally he ignores the black President characters from 24, etc, which came long before Obama was elected.

(#12) Not only is Ray Langston (Fishburne's character) not the CSI team lead, the lead position was filled by - eek! - a female character after Grissom was written out.

Terry Krepel wrote an article "The Other (And Even More Hateful) Rush" on his website ConWebWatch exposing Rush's other hateful speech.

And here's a more reality-based article concerning people of color on primetime TV.

(edited to add) This Rush guy reminds me of that racist C-Span Washington Journal caller who complained about "too many black people" calling into the program.