Olivia In Scandal 'By Shonda Rhimes' Show

Another example having to do for race, can be Olivia Pope, in Shonda Rhimes’ show on ABC called Scandal (Beers, Wilding, & Rhimes, 2012). Olivia is a successful woman that is well known in Washington, D.C. because she comes in and fixes situations quickly and leaves no trace of anything occurring. She takes the biggest scandals that happen in the United States, and makes them disappear. Olivia is the epitome of a woman who escaped the generalized outcomes of minority women. She went to an Ivy League school, had a family who loved her, and an amazing career. Although she skipped over the outcomes of society places against minorities, she still is portrayed as a homewrecker. She is having an affair with the President of the United States and they are in love. She is a powerful woman in the

She worked in the White House, worked to get the president elected, and had her own company. The promotional picture for the show is Olivia with the president and it sexualizes them (printed on the final page). The interaction between the two show a forbidden love and objectifies Olivia before even seeing an episode of the show. Minority women are seen as sexual objects, A question that arises from both examples previously stated is why every time there is a show about a minority she has to have to sleep with a man of power, or it always leads back to a man. This is a prevalent theme in many shows. If Zora Neale Hurston was to speak out about minority women in the media she would have much to say based on her narrative, “How It Feels to Be Colored Me.” Hurston tells how she “remembered the very day I became colored” (Hurston 1). In the moment that Mary Jane Paul realized that her stories about Black rights were not important to the network, is in the same that Hurston realized that she was colored. These pivotal moments make one realize that Hurston would have much