[lovelyivy84]

In all of it's ghetto, triflin, messed up glory! Reality Shows are about creating drama first so they don't PICK the people who are fully functional to BEGIN with. Dysfunction is their business.

And FYI, this is not a movie. This is not Malcolm X, or Driving Miss Daisy, or something that sets out to show how persecuted we are, and oh don't we just always overcome and aren't we the most special, entitledcakes. It shows people being people in all of their truly messed up glory. None of these folks are that different from people you probably know in real life. With the exception of No Panties, you have probably done some of the same dumb stuff in your own life that these kids are getting sooo criticized for doing on tv. In real life people DON'T always excel. In real life people make mistakes. In real life sometimes racism wins. In real life black folks can be both ghetto and country and are often both.

If you want to see perfect black students being perfect and doing everything they're supposed to do BET also shows a movie of the week periodically that will be more to your taste.

And I don't LIKE BET. I hate it. But I think some of the criticisms here are slightly ridiulous- black folks have wanted something like this forever- if the people on it don't act what you see as being the right way then that is not their fault. It's on the people being filmed.