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Originally posted by AKA2D '91:
I'll check out the links later, but has anyone ever notice that they don't put more than 2 blacks on SOME (most)gameshows, especially when they WERE really popular? Why was that?
Excluding The Weakest Link (there were like 3 or 4 one ONE panel last week), Family Feud (recently I saw two AA families "going at it"), MAYBE TPIR  But not too often there either.
Has anyone else witness this before?
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I think it is because not a lot of blacks audition for these shows to begin with.
HOWEVER, I can say that I have seen two black contestants compete again each other on Match Game every so often, one notable time was during a New Years Eve show, when Match Game '73 became Match Game '74. The thing that made me mad was that unlike some years, the two contestants couldn't stay onstage to witness the festivities with Gene and the Match Game gang.
Now Family Feud has had more black families competing against each other more often in this (Louie Anderson) version than any other (Richard Dawson or Ray Combs).
One thing I am glad to see regarding African-Americans on game shows is more of them on premier episodes of shows. Examples...
Sandy Donell? (The VERY first person to come on down to Price is Right in 1972)
Stanley ?? (Match Game)
Lana Jones (Press Your Luck)
Anyways, lemme dig up some more clips.
RM