Ok so to date we’ve been a fan of the tv show ‘The Amazing Race’. The new season ‘The Amazing Race Family Edition‘ just started tonight and they introduced the families. First off, the fact that 9 of the 10 families are white is rather annoying, nice representation of the US/World. Not that I expected much more, however, the fact that the one black family has the last name of Black and is thus referred to as ‘The Black Family’ (on the screen as such whenever they are on camera even) is just too much. Emily and I are both groaning here.
The only redeeming factor is that this family is one of the more friendly and functional families in the show, but this show doesn’t always reward that. We’re rooting for failure for the teams that feel it’s important to mention ‘the lord’ at every opportunity, or the ones that scream and yell at each other.
Followup – CBS solved this problem, the Black family was eliminated in episode one. 🙁
David Spade referenced this on his ‘Showbiz Show’ saying “Amazing Race?How about Amazing Racist!”
To keep on this theme, NBC now has ‘Treasure Hunters’, their contribution to the reality race shows. They have 10 teams of 3 people. They too have only team of non-white people, and this time it’s not the ‘Blacks’… it’s the Brown’s. Sigh.