Last fall, when I heard "Let's Make A Deal" would return, with Wayne Brady to host, I was ecstatic. Ever since "Whose Line Is It Anyways?" Brady has been one of my favourite television celebrities. The show itself is a re-make of Monte Hall's classic with a theme of audience members dressing up to win money, cars, trips, and furniture. But as I started to watch the show on a nearly daily basis, I noticed a common trend: The contestants were most often African-American females.
Now, with Brady being African-American, I understand he may be more subconsciously inclined to choose contestants with the same ethnicity, after all, I am Asian-Canadian and attract myself to Asians as well, but the large difference was something I could not ignore. I went on the Internet to see if any other viewers made the same observations, and stumbled on a forum thread on Wayne Brady's Website.
In the thread, the author provides evidence that Wayne Brady may be unknowingly racist. The author taped the last 14 episodes of the show prior to January 25, 2010 and noticed a startling statistic.
"Wayne [chose] blacks and other ethnic groups (per capita) 92% of the time over whites," the author writes, "[W]e started counting the number of whites per blacks sitting on the program and he nearly every time chooses the blacks over the whites 9 to 1. (Per capita) Not only that, but when there is a CAR or Major prize involved, it is ALWAYS offered with the best odds to the black race!"
One contestant on the show also offered support of this belief and posted the opinions of many hopefuls in line hoping to get tickets.
"[E]veryone standing in the line the day that I was on the show was buzzing about how if we were black we'd have a much higher chance of getting picked for one of the good prizes."
The show has received numerous boycotts from many viewers and the seemingly blatant prejudice has not yet stirred any controversy, but with more and more people having the same opinion, and the show celebrating its 100th episode today, we may see some major changes to the show in the near future.
CBS has built a reputation on quality programming and is now number one in America. I am certain that CBS will make alterations to appease viewers. Keep the host; change the contestants system - Maybe a lottery system, like "The Price is Right."
Is Wayne Brady Racist?
Last fall, when I heard "Let's Make A Deal" would return, with Wayne Brady to host, I was ecstatic. Ever since "Whose Line Is It Anyways?" Brady has been one of my favourite television celebrities. The show itself is a re-make of Monte Hall's classic with a theme of audience members dressing up to win money, cars, trips, and furniture. But as I started to watch the show on a nearly daily basis, I noticed a common trend: The contestants were most often African-American females.
Now, with Brady being African-American, I understand he may be more subconsciously inclined to choose contestants with the same ethnicity, after all, I am Asian-Canadian and attract myself to Asians as well, but the large difference was something I could not ignore. I went on the Internet to see if any other viewers made the same observations, and stumbled on a forum thread on Wayne Brady's Website.
In the thread, the author provides evidence that Wayne Brady may be unknowingly racist. The author taped the last 14 episodes of the show prior to January 25, 2010 and noticed a startling statistic.
"Wayne [chose] blacks and other ethnic groups (per capita) 92% of the time over whites," the author writes, "[W]e started counting the number of whites per blacks sitting on the program and he nearly every time chooses the blacks over the whites 9 to 1. (Per capita) Not only that, but when there is a CAR or Major prize involved, it is ALWAYS offered with the best odds to the black race!"
One contestant on the show also offered support of this belief and posted the opinions of many hopefuls in line hoping to get tickets.
"[E]veryone standing in the line the day that I was on the show was buzzing about how if we were black we'd have a much higher chance of getting picked for one of the good prizes."
The show has received numerous boycotts from many viewers and the seemingly blatant prejudice has not yet stirred any controversy, but with more and more people having the same opinion, and the show celebrating its 100th episode today, we may see some major changes to the show in the near future.
CBS has built a reputation on quality programming and is now number one in America. I am certain that CBS will make alterations to appease viewers. Keep the host; change the contestants system - Maybe a lottery system, like "The Price is Right."
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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I want to learn about statistical arbitrage and black box trading methods. Can you write some articles on those areas?
Sure, but don't have too much expectations. I have never done it myself, and unless I am wrong, those trading techniques are not used by retail investors and usually done by computer trading.
I was just watching the price is right, and have been for a while and noticed the zonks for white people, and the cars andexc go to blacks, so i wonderd if tjere were anything on the internet, low and behold there it is, yep, all you have to do is watch the program, it will convince you right of the bat. wayne brady is a racist. 100%
Wayne brady is a racist
quit watching due to Brady's blatant pro black racism
I too have noticed since George Floyd all the blacks in the audience are chosen and get to play for the better prizes. You shouldn't get picked by color, they should be fair to all the people. Shame on the network for letting this happen.
I agree with all of the comments above noting blacks are always picked by Wayne Brady for the better prizes. My husband and I now call the show “Let’s Make a Deal for Black People”. The show needs a new host and soon before they lose all their viewers.
I noticed the same thing. For the month of June 2019 I took the race of all contestants and the prize. At the end of the month 40% of all contestants were black and 50% of all contestants for cars were black.
I have been noticing on let's make a deal more often blacks are picked for major prizes even though it's about 20% blacks in the contestants area, and noticed for quite awhile like this.
This must be a joke.
Oh please. Always playing the race card. I notice just the opposite. White contestants are chosen for less zonks. Almost ALWAYS a black female is chosen as the 2nd contestant of the show who almost ALWAYS is zonked unless she takes the “for sure” $1000. Whites are just so used to getting everything that when a poc gets a little something, you scream racism. I guess it’s OK when whites get everything. But as soon as a few people of color, get a little something, it’s racism. Get over yourselves.
I am watching deal right now, and sure enough Wayne picked a black woman to play for a car. He has been doing this forever.
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