I don’t think that black women are stereotyped differently than other ethnic groups and maybe shows where they have a chance to meet Flav in “Flavor of Love”, was influenced but what the white media projected. There are similar amounts of opulence represented as the contestants here get to win gold clocks to hang around their necks and other shows would also be lavish when it came to gift giving. A way to fight stereotyping here would be to say that black women are no more demanding as any other who wants to be in the company of a celebrity an that if they have an opportunity to be surrounded by extravagance than that is their choice.

In a “New York goes to Hollywood”, a spin off of the above, a young “wanna be” goes through the ropes of getting established in the film capital and there should be no stereotyping here. Being vane is not a characteristic of race and I think as long as black women stand their ground they should not be made to feel guilty because they might get into an argument with a director just as a white would if she hasn’t learned that it may not be in her best interest to do so.

Modern stereotypes of black women are I think far from this. In Canada some people feel they can’t decide on issues as quick as their white counterparts, or are more indecisive and then I think just as there are attention deficits within the white population, the same will occur within the black. This categorizing should be fought in order to continue promoting equality within the job place that can be influenced by this negative viewpoint.

Testing black cognitive abilities for employment purposes, smacks of racial profiling and I would not like to perform such an analysis to satisfy white purists that whites are superior. I  wonder if proof would be satisfactory anyway given the slave trade history in the United States and the fact that New Orleans was abandoned by the federal government because of their black population.

Blacks are not inferior just because their mannerisms and social background may be different. They are as equal as whites especially if we are already living in a period where our governor general has originated from Haiti and has been seen chatting about Haiti with a black president whose origins are from Kenya. Perhaps then blacks should demonstrate against abuse and the lack of equal opportunity in the job place if they feel discriminated against, just as they did in the days of Martin Luther King.