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Nope. I've wondered the same thing. I mean, they must be very effective or else they wouldn't continue to be produced, right?
I think when clients want to target an AA audience, people (and guessing mostly white people) fall into the trap of trying to convey race across radio, which is usually a dumb idea and ends up in stereotype land. I think if we had more black creatives and CDs, this problem would ~mysteriously~ disappear.
It's always really annoying when I get casting specs as something that sounds more "urban" it always makes me want to ask, could you elaborate more?? What EXACTLY are you looking for?
Black Copywriter here... and whenever I've done radio, I was always keen to direct the talent so that they didn't fall into tropes that forecast race. When you don't have someone in the process that's sensitive to that stuff-- it will continue.