Donald Trump could blow everyone's mind if he asked for an Investigation into Fox Televisions Contracting practices. There appears to be an obscenely wide chasm between what African American Actors and Caucasian Actors are paid on Fox Television.
Even when ratings favor the African American Show, and the show is twice as long, as in sixty minutes versus thirty minutes, the Caucasian Actor will get paid significantly more for a lower rated, 1/2 hour show than the African American Actors will get paid for their hour long show that also has higher ratings.
I'm not talking 10% or 20% more, I am talking a few hundred percent higher. A recent example would be the cast of Empire, Fox's highest rated Show for several years until it was bumped to second highest rated this past season, versus a show like Anger Management that was also on Fox, which was only half an hour long, and starred Drug and Prostitute compromised Actor Charlie Sheen.
When Sheen is on, he seems to have keen awareness of both sides of most issues, and Sheen's acting for both 2 and 1/2 Men and Anger Management seems to reflect an awareness of both sides of an issue. I'm ok with Sheen being number one. The problem is African Americans are so much farther down the contract scale one has to wonder if some of their contract goes to pay Sheen's contract.
It appears that Jussie Smollett made less money over the first 54 one hour shows covering three seasons of Fox's Number one rated Empire, as a co star, than Sheen made for ONE half an hour episode of Anger Management. The pay disparity was so great it most likely played a hand in Smollett's alleged recent actions regarding reporting a hate crime.
Fox may be tap dancing into the area of Financial Abuse in the case of Smollett, and President Trump could really make a name for himself if he ordered an investigation into why there was and is such a financial disparity between Caucasian Actors on Fox television shows versus Minority and Women Actors on Fox television shows.
There may be obvious demographic reasons why a Caucasian Male Actor might make the Most money, but left unchecked, it appears the disparity between ethnicities, women and caucasian men has reached incomprehensible levels on Fox.
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