No black-and-white answer for the lack of diversity on television

When the Fox, UPN and WB networks were in their formative years (and all were part of media leviathans -- News Corp., Viacom and Time Warner, respectively), many of their shows went after African American viewers.

Then as those networks found success, they gradually eased away from programs designed for those audiences. TBS, which is home to Tyler Perry's sitcoms and a new program produced by Ice Cube based on his hit movie "Are We There Yet," has made some effort to step into the breach.

This was quoted in the above article from the Los Angeles Times  website.  This comment caught my attention the most.  I feel that many outlets have made profit from the African Americans urban life styles.  Music, fashion, and television has used African Americans, culture, vocal traits, and natural physical figures to retain a form of popularity, brand, or recognition in society.  It is like the media finds the lively hood of Blacks as being their link to relate to the public but does not want to give the recognition of Blacks as being the source.  They take credit for African American lively hood.  This has been going on for years.  My earliest recognition of this activity was the discovery of African Americans writing Elvis' music.  He was greatly influenced by R&B and gospel which was dominated by African Americans at that point of time.