The Office = white collar
The Warehouse = blue collar

African American to White ratio in The Office = 1:12
AFAM/W ratio in The Warehouse = 6:1

Stanley (Only black white collar worker) cheats on wife and is viewed poorly.
Pam cheats on fiance, Roy, with Jim and we're supposed to be happy.
God forbid we portray African Americans in a good light on television.

The BBC version was over after 2 seasons and a Christmas special and it was art. American Office wins an Emmy and becomes commercialized trash.

Sincerely,
Former Fan

I think you're really reaching here. Almost every character has been portrayed negatively in some way.

And by the way, I think you're forgetting about Charles Minor, an African American man who is in upper management. He hasn't been in the first two episodes, but as far as I know, he's still Michael's boss. So that would actually be 2/13 rather than the 1/12 that you came up with.

I also don't believe that Pam really cheated on Roy. Yeah, Jim kissed her, but he made the move and nothing else happened.

Bringing up racism as it applies to the American version and then calling the BBC version art seems kind of hypocritical.

To portray Stanley as perfect would be like "reverse racism times nine"(if I'm getting the quote right)

Also...I wonder if you saw tonight's episode(The Meeting). The story with Darryl...umm I hope you don't think that's racist

You're certainly entitled to your opinion but you're gonna have to come up with more proof than random ratios and false statements(Pam did not cheat on Roy) to back it up. Also, Angela (and Dwight) were having an affair when Angela was engaged to Andy. I don't think that was portrayed in a positive light.

i don't care about any of the details.

One of the reasons that i love The Office is because it is not afraid to cover racial humor w/out getting even mildly offensive. but as everything else that's just my opinion.

I feel like the point of view of racism comes from how we personally feel from deep within ourselves about that particular race. sometimes our own guilt manifests into false concern for how racism was handled in any show.

i have no guilt about comedic racism. its all funny to me because we're all funny no matter what color we are. we can always find our guilty pleasures in comedy to make us laugh at that too tall, too short, fat, skinny, ugly, goofy looking, naive, white, mexican, black, annoying, eccentric (i could go on but i'll stop here) person at the job.

i'll believe racism is coming to an end when we stop using it as an excuse not to laugh at it because then we, as a human race that come in a variety of shades, history and culture will finally come to an agreement that you know what...it is funny.