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He's asking Mark Goodman, one of the first VJ's, why MTV isn't playing the videos he sees on this channel in NYC (very likely "Music Box" is the channel) that is largely black artists. He isn't talking to America as a whole as in 1983, when this interview likely took place as he's wearing the outfit from his "Modern Love" era, much of America wouldn't have cable TV available let alone MTV.
Your whole second paragraph makes no sense in the light of the facts mentioned above. Bowie is literally asking one of the faces of MTV why they aren't playing hip-hop artists at a time when hip hop was still kind of obscure.