{"id":897,"date":"1998-07-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1998-07-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp\/index.php\/1998\/07\/29\/law-and-order-program-attacks-mixed-race-people\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:10:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:10:13","slug":"law-and-order-program-attacks-mixed-race-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/1998\/07\/29\/law-and-order-program-attacks-mixed-race-people\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Law and Order&#8221; Program Attacks Mixed-Race People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NBC&#39;s Award-Winning &quot;Law and Order&quot; Program Attacks Mixed-Race People<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;Law and Order&quot; police drama rerun of Sunday, July 26, 10:00 p.m. Eastern time was probably the most racist program modern Hollywood has ever produced, and the racism is considered &quot;politically correct&quot; because the population attacked (Caucasian persons of partially &quot;black&quot; ancestry) is considered an acceptable target of denigration by the liberal &quot;left&quot; in this country. What racist myths and stereotypes did this program take great pains to validate?<\/p>\n<p>1) The entire plot hangs on a genetic impossibility &#8211; that a &quot;pure&quot; white woman of Danish ancestry (&quot;as white as you can get,&quot; as one of the actors puts it) would give birth to a coal-black baby if she married an otherwise Caucasian man &quot;tainted&quot; with some black ancestry &#8211; whom the &quot;heroes&quot; of the show define as &quot;black&quot; with no ifs, ands and buts. What is the purpose of this racist nonsense? It is obviously designed to validate the idea that something is terribly wrong with &quot;black&quot; genes and, if you dare to mingle &quot;superior&quot; Caucasian blood with black, the &quot;white&quot; lineage and identity will be totally destroyed &#8211; the main argument white purists have historically made against interracial marriage. Please note that the actors, script writers and Executive Producer, Dick Wolff would not DARE to call LATINOS &quot;black&quot; no matter how much &quot;black blood&quot; they or their relatives displayed.<\/p>\n<p>2) the cop &quot;heroes&quot; of the program refer to intermarriage between a white woman and a black man as &quot;Scarlett O&#39;Hara and Mandingo,&quot; and also refer to black males who mate with white women as &quot;studs.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>3) The mixed-race Caucasian who dared to choose the identity that the mirror showed him over a myth that he wasn&#39;t good enough for his own European ancestry, is denigrated and denounced in the most racist terms by two black actors who berate him for &quot;passing&quot; and enjoying benefits that &quot;other&quot; African Americans couldn&#39;t enjoy. I interpret that remark to mean that the black characters were not resentful of whites who enjoyed superior rights &#8211; as long as they were &quot;Negro blood free&quot; and therefore truly &quot;superior.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>4) A black attorney character tells the mixed Caucasian that he is &quot;an accomplished liar&quot; and &quot;self-hating coward&quot; because &quot;he lied about his race.&quot; No one even once questions whether a person who looks like every anthropology textbook&#39;s definition of &quot;Caucasian&quot; can be said to be &quot;lying&quot; about his &quot;race&quot; when he describes himself as white. No one questions their extremely racist definition of &quot;race.&quot; Since most middle-class blacks claim black females were &quot;raped&quot; by antebellum white males and white genes &quot;forced&quot; upon them, I would ask the black actors why they are so intent on forcing white persons into their &quot;race&quot; &#8211; are they thinking that &quot;white blood&quot; somehow &quot;improves&quot; the black stock? What is especially hypocritical about this denunciation for &quot;passing,&quot; is that Hollywood is built on &quot;passing.&quot; You can buy mainstream books telling about the hundreds of actors (including most of our great &quot;stars&quot;) who changed their &quot;inferior&quot; Jewish, Slavic, Latino or whatever names and invented &quot;Anglo-Saxon Protestant&quot; images to make them more acceptable to the public.<\/p>\n<p>5) The &quot;heroes&quot; of the program state as a fact that all the mixed Caucasian&#39;s &quot;pure&quot; white friends and business associates will turn from him in disgust when they find out he&#39;s &quot;black&quot; (which he&#39;s not; the &quot;Law and Order&quot; folks don&#39;t even have the decency to use terms such as &quot;mixed&quot; or &quot;part-black.&quot;) Like &quot;Imitation of Life&quot; and other racist denunciations of &quot;passing,&quot; the characters are not denouncing racism, they are telling the viewers to BE racist. You are SUPPOSED to treat a white-identified person with contempt if you find out he is &quot;tarbrushed&quot; because the heroes of &quot;Law and Order&quot; told you it&#39;s the right thing to do. Hell, the black actors told you it&#39;s the right thing to do &#8211; and every politically correct liberal knows that &quot;blacks&quot; are always right (unless they attack you personally because you&#39;re Jewish or gay or if they dare to mention the &quot;shame&quot; of Latinos&#39; black ancestry).<\/p>\n<p>6) The &quot;Law and Order&quot; plot even has the mixed Caucasian&#39;s first wife (also a &quot;pure&quot; white) rejecting her otherwise white son because he has the dreaded &quot;black blood&quot; in him (which, according to the &quot;heroes&quot; of the show, makes him purely &quot;black&quot;). The &quot;heroes&quot; of the show also state that the son should not have gone to an &quot;all white&quot; school. Every day you see white mothers with visibly mixed-race children, yet the &quot;Law and Order&quot; folks assure us that rejecting even a white child you&#39;ve raised and loved because his father turns out to be part-black is natural and normal. Of course, if you&#39;re Latino, your &quot;black blood&quot; is never mentioned by either African Americans or white liberals.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#39;re as outraged as I am, please write:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Law@nbc.com\">Law@nbc.com<\/a> or LAW &amp; ORDER<br \/>Wolf Films<br \/>Pier 62<br \/>Hudson River &amp; West 23rd Street<br \/>New York, NY 10011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NBC&#39;s Award-Winning &quot;Law and Order&quot; Program Attacks Mixed-Race People The &quot;Law and Order&quot; police drama rerun of Sunday, July 26, 10:00 p.m. Eastern time was probably the most racist program modern Hollywood has ever&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-et","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2165,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897\/revisions\/2165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}