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== Social Workers ==

Usually portrayed as lazy, heartless, stupid, and/or tied up by [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|bureaucratic red tape]] (causing them to either ignore obvious problems or to insist on enforcing rules in petty and counterproductive ways). On many TV shows and movies, they are usually played by emotionally cold Black women who are plagued by a crappy childhood or a failed relationship. If a black woman is not available, the social worker from the [[Department of Child Disservices]] is played by well-meaning but overworked and overwhelmed, frumpy looking white guys.

=== Live-Action TV ===

* The hospital social worker on ''HawthoRNe''. She's an overweight, frumpily dressed White woman (as compared to the hot looking nurses) who can't seem to do anything right or doesn't care enough about people to help. Then of course the title character (played by Jada Pinkett Smith) comes in and makes everything better.

* The hospital social worker on ''[[HawthoRNe]]''. She's an overweight, frumpily dressed White woman (as compared to the hot looking nurses) who can't seem to do anything right or doesn't care enough about people to help. Then of course the title character (played by Jada Pinkett Smith) comes in and makes everything better.

* ''[[Reba]]'' featured an especially loud, overweight black woman who publicly embarrassed her when she [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!|tried to stop them from giving her family food stamps]].