What I really want for Christmas: a TV show in which the main character is a charismatic black man whose sidekick is a white man ...

Come on, people. Don't you ever get tired of these TV shows and movies in which the main character is a white guy who has a black best friend, and the black best friend has, like, nothing better to do than look out for the interests of the white guy? Don't you just want to see a black guy as the main character? With the

white guy acting as personal assistant? Also, don't you ever wonder what it would be like -- this is kind of for white readers only -- if all your life all the people on TV and in the movies were Chinese? Like once in a great while there was one show that featured white people? But otherwise all the other stuff was Chinese folks? Ninety percent? On the TV news. All the shows. All the movies. Maybe one white person on the TV news. Or in a supporting role in one of the movies. (Picking up the luggage or driving the car.) And the white person in that supporting role gets an Academy Award in, like, 2002. Are you getting my drift here, people? Like how fun would that be never to see anyone who looked like you on the TV set or in the movies? And when you did they were like the personal assistant to the main character, who was, you know, black, Chinese, substitute whatever hue you want. You get my point. What I want for Christmas is for the black man in the movie to the right to star in the next movie and have that white guy in the picture with him be in the supporting role. And the black man calls the shots. You know? I just would like to see things shaken up a bit! The Dead Zone -- LOVED the movie. Sometimes the show can be fun. But it creeps me out that the black man sort of follows the main character around to look out for him. Like he just dropped whatever else he had going in his life to be there. The supporting role folks are never quite as smart. He looks smarter. So does the guy in the movie to the left. He looks like the guy from Pulp Fiction. He looks like he should own a city. Put him in charge of stuff for the afternoon! Jeez!