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this show is offensive. its created by the whites to further denigrate blacks and pollute the minds of blacks with its stereotypes and narrow representations of blacks.

 

far from the ''satirical commentary'' of everyday life it has been described as. but very funny stuff.

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Alpha Blondy;913443 wrote:
this show is offensive. its created by the whites to further denigrate blacks and pollute the minds of blacks with its stereotypes and narrow representations of blacks.

 

far from the ''satirical commentary'' of everyday life it has been described as. but very funny stuff.

 

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Alpha Blondy;913451 wrote:
^ let me watch before commenting. okay?

apologies. the internet isn't so fast here....:D

 

what an arrogant self-obsessed prick McGruder is.....this laissez-faire attitude among certain sections of america's black elite, no doubt a result of their suburbia upbringing and college education is hardly impressive and leaves one wondering how far black producers and tv executives, with an established niche but who work within the dominant white superstructure, are willing to go in projecting a distorted, lazy thinking, 'populist' portrayals and narrow stereotypes of blacks. unless blacks are able to control the mediums of productions in the film industry, we'll continue to be portrayed by others as they see fit.

 

my comments are fairly short.

 

does the use of the term 'Nigger' and its associated cultural values empower us or denigrate our collective will?

 

the ''Negritude'' that exists today is nothing like the movement that inspired the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920-30s or the growth of Pan-Africanism in pre-independence Black Africa. those early pioneers were responsible and strived for the greater good of their people. today, unfortunately, its developed into a corporate mashruuc, that seeks to use our collective will for the profit orientated and ratings obsessed 'show-biz' to our greater detriment. it’s a sick and pervasive version that celebrates violence and social destruction. this new wave of 'Niggerisation', as it should be entitled, presents a sad state of affairs as far as blacks worldwide are concerned. its nihilism without face, it’s the reverse of norm and it celebrates negativity with conscious pride.

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Question is:

What is the appropriate "black Identity"? You've mentioned the empowerment or denigration of "our collective will....what is "our collective will?

do any two black people have the same image of what a socially responsible, cognitively mature black portrayal should be?

 

or is it just a matter of emulating white behaviour? do "they" have it right?

 

It might be easy to spot all the wrong traits but slightly more difficult to describe the 'way it should be"

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