I write this blog with the utmost sensitivity and enough political correctness to fill a room. And, to quote from Jerry McGuire, "I LOVE BLACK PEOPLE".
First, let me throw something at you. Look at BET (Black Entertainment Television), if there was WET (White Entertainment Television), there would be riots in the streets for days. Staying on the TV note, there is a channel called Starz InBlack where they show movies with black actors. Now I love all movies, but why do we have to have a whole different channel set aside for African Americans. Right now I am looking at the schedule for Black Starz and the upcoming programs are: "Kinky Boots", "Nora's Hair Salon", "Repos", and (the epitome of intellectual films) Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo. To me this is an insult that they would only air C-rated movies that lasted 4 days in theaters, to later be showed as a symbol of a race.
Does this really represent the height of black pride? If we insist on having this channel, then can't we debut brilliant actors like Don Cheadle, Forest Whitaker, or Denzel Washington? Not one of these award winning actors is on this channel. But of course, watching Marlon Wayans hiding from the law by pretending to be a baby is so much more stimulating.
To quote the wonderful Martin Luther King Jr., "I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law." Then why do we still separate ourselves from other races? It seems that we need to have a stronger middle ground in our media when concerning race, we are sending out the wrong message.
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I completely agree with you on this. I am also not racist to even the slightest extent, but how could black people have pride in separatist type media (BET), when they always seem to be fighting for equal rights. That just seems to contradictory for my sympathy.
I believe in equal rights for all humans, so why do black people keep trying to further themselves from the rest, by being defensive about certain cultural aspects. For example, why do they call each other "niggers" when they constantly rant about how offensive the word is. So if your black your allowed to offended black people. I was not aware that there was some sort of understanding that race dictated the saying and acceptance of certain words.
A black person might argue that the word "nigger" or "nigga" constitutes a sign of brotherhood, but I see no brotherhood with a word that has been upheld with such negative connotations. Then I guess MLK Jr. was wrong when he said, "I want to be the white man's brother..."
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