Prejudice

Is 'Southland' a Racist TV Show?

By Lee Hernandez | 01/12/2011 - 16:30 | 10 Comments

When the gritty cop drama, Southland, premiered on NBC in the spring of 2009, Alex Nogales, President of the National Hispanic Media Coalition, spoke out against the show. ”All of the criminals are Latino and all the cops are white. That is offensive,” Nogales told Latina in the fall of 2009. He rightly...