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By: 5 Reasons ‘The Boondocks’ is Still The Truth « Diasporadical

5 Reasons ‘The Boondocks’ is Still The Truth « Diasporadical — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 06:49:33 +0000

[...] I’ve never been a Tyler fan. Matter of fact, his movies make me sicker than Twilight ever will. He preys on the minds of already victimized demographics and does so in the name of Jesus. Pardon my French, but that’s some b******t. Plus, that whole cross-dressing thing really needs to get addressed. (There’s a pun in there somewhere) [...]

By: chronwell

chronwell — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 22:12:43 +0000

^HAHAHA!! And the thing is CNN is as good as it gets if you must keep following mainstream/govt. disinfo/media. NY Times, Wall St Jou, aint no better!

By: It's the God ... God!

It's the God ... God! — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 19:02:30 +0000

whens white in america commin out? cnn aint nothin but infotainment for people who think they’re smart. sensationalism at its finest

Co-Sign! Too many self-alleged “news buffs” who think they are qualified to talk politics all day because they read CNN.com every day.

By: Wesley Pipes

Wesley Pipes — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:01:34 +0000

To me its just entertainment. Whats shown doesnt dictate what black folk really are. Imma black folk!

By: Gotty™

Gotty™ — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:13:12 +0000

whens white in america commin out?

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Monday – Friday 6am-4pm ; 6pm-12am CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox.

^ dead lol

By: Leegle

Leegle — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 05:12:01 +0000

You got some good points, Contra. I’m gonna sound like a Tom here, but I look at Perry’s films as just plain trite films. I mean yes there are a lot of stereotypes that he and other people portray of black people but you see that in a lot of other movies as well.

Tyler Perry isn’t the first man to dress in drag for comedy. In fact “Some Like It Hot” had two and it’s considered the greatest comedy of all time.

And as far as gun-toting, drug using smart-ass grandparents, we’ve seen our fair share of those forever. Hell Alan Arkin won an Oscar for it. Over the black guy might I ad!

“Man, can a brotha’ get a Cosby-esque show on television.”
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With all of the scream over negative bullshit on tv, it’s hard to find that on a white tv show. Thank “Married With Children” and “The Simpsons” for that, God bless em.

By: Chuck_You

Chuck_You — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 04:56:48 +0000

whens white in america commin out?

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Monday – Friday 6am-4pm ; 6pm-12am CBS, ABC, NBC and Fox.

By: El Rosado

El Rosado — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:52:04 +0000

Lmao @ Pancho.

@ Trill Smith: co-sign!

By: El Rosado

El Rosado — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:49:58 +0000

@Sam C : yea they hit every cliche Latino story (Cuban migration/wealth, undocumented mexicans, puerto-rican second class citizenship, teenage parents, hs dropouts etc they really showed no creativity) and each story was one that’s already been done to death by journalists/scholars with way more credibility and knowledge than Soledad/CNN. They basically made it seem like the only way a Latino in this country could succeed is by being a celebrity (they were heavy on celebrities) or politician, not much about the rising Latino middle class of professionals or the working class that’s doing the jobs nobody else wants. Shit was like a remedial “Latino 101″ for the uninformed that prefer to learn through 2 hours of weak documentaries.

And for as fine as she is, Soledad lost a lot of her appeal to me for LIA. I knew she grew up bougie upper-class and wasn’t necessarily “down” so to say because of nature/nurture….but damn it’d be nice if Soledad didn’t constantly butcher the pronunciation of her own name
CONSTANTLY. It was both hilarious and sad at the same time considering she’s trying to pitch herself as a mainstream Latina voice in journalism but can’t even pronounce her own name correctly. I’m not one of these Spanish-language elitists types of Latinos but she needs to get it together or change her name to some shit she can pronounce correctly like Samantha.

By: 123

123 — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 02:04:58 +0000

I don’t see why they aired Black in America 2 again. I didn’t like the first one and I didn’t like the second one (the initial time it aired in the summer)…

I fully agree about Tyler Perry and I’d be here all day scribing how I detest his messages and how his success doesn’t nothing but pigeon-hole black actors even more. Man, can a brotha’ get a Cosby-esque show on television. Even House of Payne, the least disgraceful of his material, clings to the same stereotypes we see white directors and producers portraying. The shiftless black male who thinks he can get by on looks, not work, the crackhead mother, the noisy black woman, etc…

Tyler Perry loses my respect because he refuses to acknowledge the BLACK PEOPLE who are offended by this. And I upset that Spike Lee is the only black person in Hollywood calling him out…

Enough about Perry…

Black In America 1 & 2 fail in two areas;

(1) It addresses racism too gingerly and (2) SLAVERY is totally ignored…

You can’t talk about “the black experience” without the WHOLE “experience…”

They need to re-run Roots on television…