George Lopez was understandably upset that ABC cancelled “The George Lopez Show.” The sitcom was obviously personal for him—and not just because he lent his name to the title. He chronicled many of his real-life experiences on the show, including his experience with kidney disease. Many of the charges Lopez hurled at ABC in his post-cancellation temper tantrum, though, were immature and inaccurate.

Lopez eagerly played the race card, saying “TV just became really, really white again,” and adding, “So a Chicano can’t be on TV but a [...] caveman can?” which was a nod to a show picked up by ABC starring the popular Geico ad caveman.

But there are many Chicanos on TV—in part thanks to Lopez. In fact many of TV’s most popular Chicanos are on the very network Lopez trashed—they’re the stars of “Ugly Betty.” That program, one of the season’s best new shows, even has an ongoing storyline involving the hardships of illegal immigrants.

Another ABC juggernaut, “Desperate Housewives,” counts Chicanos Eva Longoria and Ricardo Chavira among its stars. The newest winner of The CW’s hit “America’s Next Top Model” was Jaslene Gonzalez, a proud Latina who wowed the show’s judges by transitioning between Spanish and English during an impromptu Cover Girl commercial shoot during the finale.

Lopez was the first Latino to successfully lead a major network TV series—and he has every right to continue demanding that more Latinos be given the same opportunity. But in the throes of his childish outburst, Lopez seems to have overlooked the fact that his show wasn’t any real good anymore. In fact, it would have been racist for ABC to keep running the Lopez show as a mere token, ignoring its plummeting quality. Or it would have been racist to have never aired it in the first place. But ABC did run it and kept running it for five years, where it seems to have made a difference.