African-American Representation

African-Americans represented in movies and television today fill more and more roles of being successful businessmen or leading figures in law enforcement.  They also are put into more educated roles, such as doctors in House M.D.  African-Americans are still discriminated against to refer back to the roots of their culture and how it affects the people around them.  The representation of African-Americans has improved over time as the genres began to change themselves.  The movies and shows I have seen depicted most African-Americans as being dumb, meat-headed or living in the ghettos and being gangsters.