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 The media often portrays Blacks in subservient or negative roles on television, such as a servant, a crook, a cook, an entertainer, a musician, an exhibitionist, an athlete, or a corrupt individual. Very rarely are Blacks depicted as having professional occupations or a supervisory position in comparison to white characters ("Perceived Realism." p. 2).

 In one of the earliest examinations of African-American portrayals on television, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights found that Blacks are frequently depicted with unfavorable personality including being inferior, stupid, comical, immoral, dishonest, buffoonish, untrained, uneducated and hopeless ("Perceived Realism." pp. 2-3).