Blacks on TV

As a black woman, I think my fellow blacks should put to rest those endless complaints that they don’t see enough blacks on TV. The latest complaint, from Irene Wiley (“Something’s Missing at Emmy Awards,” Saturday Letters, Sept. 24), is that she didn’t see enough blacks on the 46th annual nighttime Emmy Awards.

It seems to me that I can hardly turn on a TV channel anymore without encountering a lily-black program that shows black people as buffoons, idiots or worse. It seems to me that that is what black people should complain about instead of whining about their absence. There’s always, and I do mean always--24 hours a day--O.J. Simpson, and if they don’t like what they see about him, they can go next door and visit with neighbors and see how black people really do live--just like everyone else.

TULA GINZBURG

Carson