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All I could say is I agree with this article.
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Harlem girl January 22, 2010 at 11:16 am To black reality shows, i.e. VH1
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Sepiastar January 22, 2010 at 11:43 am I agree with many of your assessments because I really felt The Game and Girlfriends were quality shows. My issue is why are African-Americans dependent on white networks to promote our shows. Hispanics have several networks that cater to the variety in their population, so why are WE still depending on the major networks for opportunity? Collectively, we have POWER but we fail to use it. There are many successful Black actors/actresses that have been on mainstream television for years, where are the networks? If you can recall, each time a new network needed to build a solid, core audience base, they had a line-up of shows aimed at African American audiences. After they became successful, they canceled the black shows and replace them with more mainstream shows(ie..NBC, FOX, WB). By now, we should have several networks with a range of black shows. Isn’t it time to stop asking someone else to deliver the content we like.
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Sepiastar January 22, 2010 at 11:53 am Also, why do we bash the Black shows that don’t appeal to us and characterize them as coonery or buffoonery, yet whites are allowed to express different facets of their society without being judged. The women on the Real Housewives of Atlanta are no different than the Real Housewives of Orange County, New York and New Jersey. Most of the women are catty but no one stereotype all white women as being manipulative and conniving. I did not like Frankie and Neffe’s show because there was nothing about the show that I could relate to, but I don’t relate to The Girls Next Door (Hugh Hefner) either but I don’t hear white women classify them (young, blond girls and an old man) as money, hungry prostitutes or golddiggers. African Americans are not monolithic and we have to learn that no one brush paints the entire black image.
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Latoi January 22, 2010 at 3:05 pm i feel the same way revise Different World and bring us new Girlfriends Show
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