You know what, I have been thinking... tsk tsk tsk
MTV has found yet another black jackass to represent for us on MTV... I heard a brother making the comment yesterday that "they [MTV] did a great job picking the cast because the black male they chose was [is] well-educated, well-spoken, and not a straight dog." His point was maybe they are being fairer this season by putting a silly sista out there rather than a black male
MTV persists in promoting the Ideal American Innocence, the blond white female. And she's not so sweet actually. I swear there is something exceptionally plastic and un-real about that
Real-Worlder. Rachel... yeah sweetie, you ain't foolin' noooobody
MTV persists in portraying our black community, and more specifically as of late our sisters, as idiots in some light or another. NOTICE ***on the casting special, Lori and Rachel, chosen because they were "sweet" and "cute" and "innocent"...
On other seasons, they [white women] were chosen for some of the same reasons. The reasoning, was most usually positive, and ran the gambit from innocent to intelligent.
Coral, was chosen because, well... basically she has a mouth on her. Y'all remember the other sistas on the casting special, maybe they were too dayuum nice and sweet... What happened to them? They didn't seem to stand a chance.
Nicole seems to have gotten chosen b/c she and Malik were cool on the casting special, and you know they needed a girl from the hood ANYway. Never hurts to see a sista going off right? Right!! So let's get ol' Nicole, she's from the ghetto, but she goes to what? To college?? Noooo wayyy!!! WOW!!! What an OXYmoron. That can't be, let's put her on the show too. Maybe she and Malik, our token good-black-guy-who's-educated-and-kinda-nice-and-cute-but-we-only-put-him-on-here-because-our-viewers-complained-about-seeing-too-many-black-males-with-major-ego-complexes will kindle a flame and then maybe some more drama.
When MTV wants action, they look for ethnicity. Ellen [along with our other examples], Jisela, and Sophia on RRules... were all women with some range of controversy, all ethnic, all placed on the show where they can be voted off... RRules has lower ratings than RW, they had to do
something to bump them dayum viewer scores up.
But hey, who cares, it's TV, Right!!!??!! It's all about the dollar!!! I say MTV is a wonderful station that has a great way of keeping it real!!! We ARE all confrontational, lazy, assuming, loud-mouthed, educationally challenged, socially challenged, overly offended, insecure, drama kings and queens CORRECT!!!????
It just seems that there is an overwhelming effort to maintain the innocence of the white female... i.e. Rachel (the freak/virgin) and Lori (the-I-just-wanted-to-screw-Kevin-but-now-I-feel-like-NOTHING-because-he-won't-screw-me-and-I-base-my-self-worth-on-whether-or-not-a-man-wants-to-screw-me-back-and-hence-I-am-a-vic tim-please-save-me)... MTV could harp on those two a little bit, but maybe later. Maybe I am jumping the noose. It just feels like another season of look at how the black folks act, and looks how sweet our white girls are, and look at how the white guys are just nice good ol' All American men!!! Wow, this is how the world REALLY is.
Maybe I am reading too much into it... I dunno, but it's all fishy as heck.
[This message has been edited by novella000 (edited July 26, 2001).]
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