History Main / MinorityShowGhetto

* Creator/DwayneMcDuffie, a late great pioneer in the comic book industry, had suffered through this his whole life when being a writer for a comic book series. He called it the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u16sKK-1oLQ rule of three]]: Where if three or more black characters are in a comic book series, it's considered a "black product" and thus many white readers, who are the overwhelming majority of comic book buyers, ignore it. He also noted a double standard in the industry: where he got flack from readers for writing a ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' run with a largely non-white cast, a white writer would ''not'' get the same criticism for writing a book with an [[MonochromeCasting all-white cast]].

* This is a major reason why Creator/{{Christopher Priest|Comics}} took a decade-long hiatus from writing for Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}} or Creator/{{DC|Comics}}. Despite the fact that he previously had a lengthy career writing titles as varied as ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'', ''ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'', ''[[Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica Justice League Task Force]]'', and ''Franchise/GreenLantern'', his tenures on titles like ''Comicbook/{{Steel}}'' and his historic ''ComicBook/BlackPanther'' run thoroughly pigeonholed him as a "black" writer. He has mentioned that it became difficult to find work on any non-minority titles, and that being offered a ''[[ComicBook/TheFalcon Falcon]]'' solo book was ultimately the straw that broke the camel's back.

** Priest finally returned to mainstream comics in 2016 with ''ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}}'' for the ComicBook/DCRebirth relaunch. He claims he initially turned down an offer to do a ComicBook/{{Cyborg}} series for the reasons mentioned above, and only agreed to write Deathstroke after the editors assured him the character hadn't been {{Race Lift}}ed into a black guy.
* All four attempts to star the Jaime Reyes version of the ''ComicBook/BlueBeetle'' have ended with the series being cancelled, none having lasted longer than two and a half years. Some have cited the issue being that he's a Latino superhero, starring a prominently Latino cast, and set in [[UsefulNotes/OtherCitiesInTexas El Paso, Texas]], taking up the mantle of a B-lister (in fact, that's the reason Jaime was allowed to be created, because it was believed no one would care about the Blue Beetle). All of this despite being a well-liked character and possibly the most iconic [[LegacyCharacter version]] to modern audiences[[note]]especially after his appearances in ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice''.[[/note]]. In fact, he's been cited as an example of how an AffirmativeActionLegacy character can be done ''right''.

* Creator/TylerPerry's movies are not very popular outside the Black community, though there is controversy on whether it's because white people don't want to see movies with all-Black casts or because the movies are of poor quality.

* While HipHop is enormously popular all over the world, only the artists who cross over to PopRap become household names with general audiences, and the genre still gets minimal support on mainstream radio and television. Additionally, many of the artists who ''do'' cross over are white, with Black artists (who founded and comprise the majority of acts in the genre) having a much harder time breaking through.

* While HipHop is enormously popular all over the world, only the artists who cross over to PopRap become household names with general audiences, and the genre still gets minimal support on mainstream radio and television. A lot of those crossover artists are white, female, or LGBT+.

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* While HipHop is enormously popular all over the world, only the artists who cross over to PopRap become household names with general audiences, and the genre still gets minimal support on mainstream radio and television. A lot of those crossover artists are white, female or LGBT+.

* ''Series/AllAmericanGirl'', starring Creator/MargaretCho, only lasted one season. The show initially centered on [[TheDanza Margaret Kim]] and her family. During its run, the [[ExecutiveMeddling producers]] shifted focus away from Margaret's family, which resulted in most of the Asian actors being fired.