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I guess you don't ever watch those channels that carry mostly sit-coms from the 80s about black families, etc. Not that I don't like those things, as could be seen by the amount of times I watch the Cosby Show each day. I don't even manage to see the skin color of those people anymore.
Why Starz even has one channel that never carries anything but primarily black movies. You can't call them WET. Well maybe you could.
I am not allowed to rep you for this post so will do it by saying GREAT POST People need to see some of that kind of info now and then. Especially those who are so strong on diversity as the end all of things.
I guess you don't watch too much daytime CNN. They have black co-hosts all day every day and that is about 50 - 50.
I remember a high school in Topeka, Ks back in integration days, you know right after Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. Well the biggest high school in town, the one Brown attended, had a varsity basketball team which had 11 blacks and one white on it. The kids joked a lot about that like the white getting on the bus and demanding the lights be turned on because it was so dark in there. Well, now the NAACP showed up in the principal's office one day demanding more than one black cheerleader and the principal ran them out without even arguing. He just said we can well get a more racially balanced group of cheerleaders but we MUST apply the same formula to the team itself.
It is things like this that have always had the worst effects on kids that get along because they don't really see the difference in skin color. BTW, the white boy was a starter. I wonder if that was because they needed a token white.
Sad thing is, you probably genuinely don't understand why these things came about. There were few if any AA themed shows on T.V. when BET was formed and even today for that matter. There are were no magazine and news outlets for blacks. Funny how people say blacks should do for themselves but when they do, they are critisized. This country was until recently segragated and remains that way in part in sections of this country. If you wanted to be heard as an African-American, you had to use these outlets. AA history month was created because it wasn't being taught in schools. It's actually a henderance because teachers feel the need to cram AA history into the shortest month of the year instead of treating it as American History.
Sad thing is, you probably genuinely don't understand why these things came about. There were few if any AA themed shows on T.V. when BET was formed and even today for that matter. There are were no magazine and news outlets for blacks. Funny how people say blacks should do for themselves but when they do, they are critisized. This country was until recently segragated and remains that way in part in sections of this country. If you wanted to be heard as an African-American, you had to use these outlets. AA history month was created because it wasn't being taught in schools. It's actually a henderance because teachers feel the need to cram AA history into the shortest month of the year instead of treating it as American History.
You know what cracks me up is when these people cry about "reverse racism" & "affirmative action". You know, the whole "it's even more racist to have affirmative action. We should totally eliminate it, then we'll get rid of racism". They're argument is so transparent it's amusing. You're not fooling anyone!
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Sad thing is, you probably genuinely don't understand why these things came about. There were few if any AA themed shows on T.V. when BET was formed and even today for that matter. There are were no magazine and news outlets for blacks. Funny how people say blacks should do for themselves but when they do, they are critisized. This country was until recently segragated and remains that way in part in sections of this country. If you wanted to be heard as an African-American, you had to use these outlets. AA history month was created because it wasn't being taught in schools. It's actually a henderance because teachers feel the need to cram AA history into the shortest month of the year instead of treating it as American History.
You know what cracks me up is when these people cry about "reverse racism" & "affirmative action". You know, the whole "it's even more racist to have affirmative action. We should totally eliminate it, then we'll get rid of racism". They're argument is so transparent it's amusing. You're not fooling anyone!
Oh really? So, judging people by the color of their skin is not racist? Martin Luther King must have been way off when he said:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." It doesn't matter what your judgement is, treating people differently based on the color of their skin is discrimination, because somebody has to get the short end of the stick (unless you can make an argument for 'separate but equal').
Oh really? So, judging people by the color of their skin is not racist? Martin Luther King must have been way off when he said:
"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character." It doesn't matter what your judgement is, treating people differently based on the color of their skin is discrimination, because somebody has to get the short end of the stick (unless you can make an argument for 'separate but equal').
You might want to re-read my post. I don't think you get where I'm coming from.
You are on ice with NO information as usual. You haven't refuted any of my facts. Just simple minded comments.
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