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** Compounded when they tried to fix it in the 70s by adding a Black hero, Tyroc, who came from... an island with only Black people. That appeared on Earth only intermittently.
*** And ''all'' the black people in the world had gone to this island, and they were all racist, openly crying their hatred of whites. [[Unfortunate Implications]] abound.
* [[Birds of Prey]] fell into this, as while the team has had several minority "guest operatives" who have shown up from time to time, the core cast has historically been entirely white. Even the writer, [[Gail Simone]], said she thought it was a problem[http://gailsimone.tumblr.com/post/1579618568/sufferingsappho-ceebee-eebee-having-someone\]. She mentioned that at various points, she unsuccessfully tried to get [[Justice League of America|Vixen]], [[Icon|Rocket]] (both black), [[Batgirl
* The original X-Men team consisted of all white superheroes. This would later be averted in the series relaunch by [[Chris Claremont]].
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* During the brief period where university life at "UC Sunnydale" was shown on ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', there were almost no Asians, even though the actual University of California has over 40%. You can count the black characters on ''Buffy'' with both hands, and only one for the characters that survive.
* Parodied in an ''[[Saturday Night Live|SNL]]'' skit where a black waiter refused to serve [[Ashton Kutcher]] after the actor grudgingly admitted that there were no major minority characters in ''[[That 70s Show]]''.
* The closest you can get to saying there are minorities in ''[[
* ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' tried very hard to avoid monochrome casting, in line with Gene Roddenbery's views on race becoming a non-issue in Earth's future. This required deliberate effort on the part of the production staff, as, even in the mid-1960s, the network production system tended to fill all spots for extras with generic, physically fit white males (age 25 to 45) unless otherwise specified. As production values slipped in the second and third seasons of the series, crewmen and civilians fell back on the generic white male Hollywood stockpile.
* Monochromatic casting applied to all segments of American television before the 1970s. When Bill Cosby first appeared on ''[[The Tonight Show]]'' in the 1960s, doing his stand-up comedy act, the only make-up on hand at NBC was a base used previously for Lena Horne, who is so much paler than usual for American blacks that she used to be attacked as a "mulatto" by hostile white (and, occasionally, black) hecklers. Cosby was so pale on screen that night ("Live in black & white!") his family thought something had been done to him or that he was ill.
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