Did anyone catch this last night? Paul Mooney hosted a countdown on events that have hurt Blacks in America. It was a humorous but serious show as they covered topics from The Jherri Curl to Black Cinema, Slavery, Apartheid, and the Bombing of Black Wall Street.
I really liked that Soul Food, Bling, Being Proud of being Dumb, and Ward Connerly were on the list! One point that one of the panelists made about Bling was something along the lines of the worst you can do to impoverished communities when you have them focus on jewelry even though you're up in the projects. They also touched on Colorism in the community and used the Brown Paper Bag test as an example of it.
They also stated Flava Flav as this generation's buffoon, what I found most ironic was the music videos and hollywood portion, they showed a picture of the director of "Soul Plane", when they just finished showing that movie before the program
And I am shocked BET decided not to call themselves out during the music videos portion but did show videos that aired on BET Uncut...hopefully this program is a segway for better, positive programming on the channel.
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