[Angelino97]

"For every 17-year-old African American male that you show me that’s being carted off in handcuffs on the 10 o'clock news … I can show you 50 17-year-old African American males that get up every morning trying to figure out, 'How am I going to make my mother proud of me.'"

I doubt the ratio is 1:50.

According to American Progress.

[B]lack Millennials and post-Millennials are at greater risk of contact with the system than any previous generation. In fact, a new CAP analysis finds that 1 in 4 black Millennials had an incarcerated loved one before they even turned 18. For those born in the early 1990s, the rate is almost 1 in 3. ...

[Boogieman]

Even if he was right about the ratio (he probably isn’t), it still wouldn’t make a recipe for a successful television news show. “If it bleeds, it leads” is the rule, because that is what will actually bring in the viewers. Show some public interest piece about a regular guy trying to work a regular job to feed his regular family, and everyone will change channels, because they want to escape their own regular lives, not watch someone else’s.