Sunday, February 24, 2013

Diversity Hhhmmmm?

I'd like for you to take just a moment and get a sampling of the phenomena that is reality television in this great melting pot, that is the land of the free, and the home of the brave. Okay, I'm talking about America (although I know what I just said can be confusing!) Try flicking through the thousands of channels, and you really can get a sampling of this great American life. From guys who fish with their bare hands, to Cajun Alligator hunters, Gypsy sisters raising hell getting drunk as cooter brown, Moonshiners thumbing their noses at the law, tough talking guys from South Boston,( Southie Rules), LA Ink, Amish Mafia, Mobster Wives, LA Wives, I mean the list goes on and on. A little garbage ass Hill Billy (whom the Old Folks would say "needs her ass whipped") is even getting her 10 minutes (and a chunk of change to go with it) in the personage of a Honey Boo-Boo, and the hits just keep on coming. Now if you're paying attention, I purposely left out The few black shows that are demeaning to most blacks who have attained a certain socio-economic status (believe me money definitely doesn't get you there) their mindless arguments concerning whose ass is the biggest, or a silly mother in Atlanta who promotes inane foolishness from her one hit wonder gold grilled son, or some ex-wife wannabes being exploited by one of their own, while she sits through the insanity with a somber face. It all takes me back to the time when Blacks cried foul because of their bug-eyed, buck dancing depictions on the television, but that's for another conversation. My point today is the plethora of depictions of these other people on the boob-tube, and while they may be lacking in the social graces, they are by no means anything other than how these people live, (which is different) but by no means negative, or demeaning, even if they're from from the most racially divisive city in the United States. Surely the one thing they don't have is coloring in their mix (although J-Paul got flava). So the question of the day is "Do you by any stretch of the imagination think its coincidental that you get a sampling of so-called America without the bad, good, or whatever, but definitely without people of color. Takes me back to the Seinfeld show when at the height of it's success, the question rang out, that apparently there were no blacks in New York City? because you never saw them, (for the most part), but what I pose to you is something different, and that is, do you think this is all done by accident? No matter how negative their lives and depictions, non of it ever falls to the level of "those other shows" shall we say. When the same thing keeps happening over, and over it ceases to be "by accident, or an oversight", that my friend is what you call a pattern. Think it over, right now I gotta go practice my shuffling, and buck dancing!
                                                                                                                 Da Bad Guy!
                                                                                                                             

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