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A lot of those problems don't exist in my community. I didn't grown up around 3/4 of the depressing stuff they were showing.
So if I was a white person living in Iowa with limited exposure to black people, I would think that the majority of blacks live this way. One thing they failed to mention was accountability. No one forced the woman to have 5 kids out of wedlock. No one told these people not to go to college to further their education. But they had plenty of excuses of why their plight was so bad.
We need more shows focusing on the positve things in our community. Maybe some of these lazy deadbeat drug addicted baby having aids-spreading minimum wage job making interracial marrying low self esteem having black people can be motivated to improve their situations. T.D. Jakes or Al Sharpton isn't going to make it better. The individual has to get off of their ass and make it better!!!!
Vinita said:Deuce, my 10-year-old daughter caught that, too. She asked, "How is it HIS fault that man with no face (lol) wouldn't give him a job?"
I think this particular documentary is revealing to a bunch of people is because for so long we have limited ourselves socially. I do not know if I am the only person who feels this way,but to me it seems like this country is more divided than ever. It is the blacks over here, the whites on the other side and the hispanics in the middle.
We by nature hang with our own and that is why people still have these stereotypes about the different races. I hear a lot of talk these days about being real, but we are all fake to some degree because we are afraid to get out of our comfort zones.
The job I have allows me the chance to meet and talk to people from all walks of life, and I have come to the conclusion that we are all the same. We might live in different hoods, have different jobs, go to differnt churches and are in different tax brackets, but at the very core of our human existence we are all the same. And once everyone person on this planet stop with this seperatist attitude, there will no longer be a need for CNN documentaries.
See that right there is the problem. :lol: 80% of the folks who move there just like you move to Metro Atlanta not the inner city. Growing up in the zones 1-6 is totally different then growing up in Cobb county or Gwinnett. Please don't confuse the two. Do I need to educate on why the Red Dogs were created? Why Dekalb county created the Black CATS force? :lol: Also what you see now is not the Atl of the 80's okay. There are no projects left in the city okay. They put them all in Clayton that's why it is so ruff now. :emlaugh: You can say what you want, but growing up in an environment of of a major city is totally different from growing up in the rural town. That's just like growing up on Bankhead is ruff, but growing up on the Southside of Chicago is worst. Get my point? imp:
Did you guys watch tonight. The phillips dude is a trip. That's all I'm gone say. I mean the dude said we have gone asconce(????????). He lives in another world. Some good points but he is misguided too.
Phillips was on the Cosby show and Generald Hospital for those who didn't watch the show.
I guess it was just me but the second episode of this series showed too many failure with the black man! For every gain was turned with a failure and to me it made black men look worthless with the exception of the Dyson situation. I'm thankful for the show over-all but for me it supported stereo-type america already has about black men! I know Mr. Warren for a few years now and his story could've been more defined!
That's just my opinion!!!!
It's called balance from a media's perspective. They did show both good and bad. When you saw a bad story, they came with the positives. When you saw the positives, they came with the negatives.
I think they showed more positives than negatives. The Warren family have successful black men. And even the man who once robbed a bank and was on crack turned his life around and reaching back into the communities. Even the brother who was having a hard time finding a job was somewhat positive. He wasn't just sitting on his butt, like what some Americans think. He's was out there, in his suit, hitting that employment pavement.
I think some of ya'll men are being too sensitive and not looking at the bigger picture, because your egos are bruised of CNN showing some real life pictures of our people- just my opinion. I think they did a better job last night than the first special on black women and families.
Ya'll keep talking about the special makes us look bad or America doesn't need a special to see what's going on in our communities. But it's not entirely the media's fault on their portrayal of us when we keep giving them what they see some of us as. We'll never move ahead as a people until we first own up to the problems that are hurting us now. You can't address a problem, if you don't first recognize that there is one.
We keep critiquing the media and how they portray us; let's flip that critique on OURSELVES!
It's called balance from a media's perspective. They did show both good and bad. When you saw a bad story, they came with the positives. When you saw the positives, they came with the negatives.
I think they showed more positives than negatives. The Warren family have successful black men. And even the man who once robbed a bank and was on crack turned his life around and reaching back into the communities. Even the brother who was having a hard time finding a job was somewhat positive. He wasn't just sitting on his butt, like what some Americans think. He's was out there, in his suit, hitting that employment pavement.
I think some of ya'll men are being too sensitive and not looking at the bigger picture, because your egos are bruised of CNN showing some real life pictures of our people- just my opinion. I think they did a better job last night than the first special on black women and families.
Ya'll keep talking about the special makes us look bad or America doesn't need a special to see what's going on in our communities. But it's not entirely the media's fault on their portrayal of us when we keep giving them what they see some of us as. We'll never move ahead as a people until we first own up to the problems that are hurting us now. You can't address a problem, if you don't first recognize that there is one.
We keep critiquing the media and how they portray us; let's flip that critique on OURSELVES!
It's called balance from a media's perspective. They did show both good and bad. When you saw a bad story, they came with the positives. When you saw the positives, they came with the negatives.
I think they showed more positives than negatives. The Warren family have successful black men. And even the man who once robbed a bank and was on crack turned his life around and reaching back into the communities. Even the brother who was having a hard time finding a job was somewhat positive. He wasn't just sitting on his butt, like what some Americans think. He's was out there, in his suit, hitting that employment pavement.
I think some of ya'll men are being too sensitive and not looking at the bigger picture, because your egos are bruised of CNN showing some real life pictures of our people- just my opinion. I think they did a better job last night than the first special on black women and families.
Ya'll keep talking about the special makes us look bad or America doesn't need a special to see what's going on in our communities. But it's not entirely the media's fault on their portrayal of us when we keep giving them what they see some of us as. We'll never move ahead as a people until we first own up to the problems that are hurting us now. You can't address a problem, if you don't first recognize that there is one.
We keep critiquing the media and how they portray us; let's flip that critique on OURSELVES!
See here is another problem. All black folks don't think a like and will never think a like. Just because I have a different view than you doesn't mean it's wrong. White folks have us thinking that we all should share the same views. We are from from different walks of life. Therefore we see things different from one another. That doesn't mean it is wrong or right. Just our up bringing gave us different views. Just like you have never saw crack smoked, made or shot up and I have wouldn't make me think your view is wrong get it? :idea: What you see as excuses, I see as folks trying to survive. I doen't agree with brothers on the block slinging dope, but guess what I can sometimes see why they end up there. I have been there so I speak only from what I know.
Well said Cee. I said something similar earlier. Folks always trying to lump all of us together. I get so tired of that crap.
See here is another problem. All black folks don't think a like and will never think a like. Just because I have a different view than you doesn't mean it's wrong. White folks have us thinking that we all should share the same views. We are from from different walks of life. Therefore we see things different from one another. That doesn't mean it is wrong or right. Just our up bringing gave us different views. Just like you have never saw crack smoked, made or shot up and I have wouldn't make me think your view is wrong get it? :idea: What you see as excuses, I see as folks trying to survive. I doen't agree with brothers on the block slinging dope, but guess what I can sometimes see why they end up there. I have been there so I speak only from what I know.
Did I meantion that she works for Dallas CPS and I believe that her mind is already predetermined as far as the plight of blacks in the USA. Since she always comments on minorities having kids and can't afford them.
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Now that's really funny. :lol:
It took CNN three dayum years to produce this mess?
Give me a three-piece box of Churchs Chicken, a camcorder and a few Coronas, and I could have done this crap in an afternoon. :smh:
Well said Cee. I said something similar earlier. Folks always trying to lump all of us together. I get so tired of that crap.
That is what it comes down to. Choices and accountability. It's just that we don't want to hold our young black men accountability for their actions.CNN's Black In America series theme was about choices and accountability.