{"id":226,"date":"2012-03-10T06:47:04","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T06:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.karenessexblog.com\/?p=226"},"modified":"2012-03-10T06:47:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-10T06:47:04","slug":"living-on-planet-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"Living on PLANET WHITE"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/9\/9d\/Julia_reply_postcard.JPG\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"466\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Diahnn Carroll as Julia<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Friends, can it really be true that we&#8217;ve had no tv series with a single African-American female lead since 1974??? \u00a0The article below mentions\u00a0Teresa Graves\u2019s as an undercover detective in the 1974 made-for-TV flick\u00a0<em>Get Christie Love!, <\/em>which I do not remember, but I DO remember watching the beautiful Diahnn Carroll as <em>Julia<\/em> when I was a kid back in the late &#8217;60s.<\/p>\n<p>So, um, let&#8217;s see. \u00a0Diahnn Carroll broke that glass ceiling, Teresa Graves followed her, and um, we&#8217;ve had a mere 40 year absence of series led by a single black woman??<\/p>\n<p>Where have I been that I didn&#8217;t notice this disparity? \u00a0Me, the lifelong feminist writer and (I hope) someone who lives without racial prejudice of any kind. \u00a0Well, I guess I&#8217;ve been living where I&#8217;ve always lived, on PLANET WHITE! \u00a0Apparently, everyone who runs network tv also resides there.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the wonderful Shonda Rhimes, who created both <em>Gray&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em> and <em>The<\/em> <em>Practice<\/em>, we will once again have a network series fashioned around an independent, intelligent, interesting woman of color.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/newsweek\/2012\/03\/04\/how-scandal-on-abc-got-off-the-ground.html<\/p>\n<p>Check out the article and look for <em>SCANDAL<\/em>,an upcoming and LONG OVERDUE series inspired by the life of Judy Smith, a real-life political clean-up woman.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends, can it really be true that we&#8217;ve had no tv series with a single African-American female lead since 1974??? \u00a0The article below mentions\u00a0Teresa Graves\u2019s as an undercover detective in the 1974 made-for-TV flick\u00a0Get Christie Love!, which I do not remember, but I DO remember watching the beautiful Diahnn Carroll as Julia when I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,3,4],"tags":[33,34,35,176,36,37,38,175,39],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-power","category-sex","category-women","tag-abc","tag-african-american","tag-diahnn-carroll","tag-history","tag-julia","tag-scandal","tag-shonda-rimes","tag-women","tag-women-on-television"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karenessex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}