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From The Root: Remember the ''real'' housewife named Sheree? Whose only claim to fame is that she was once married to a professional football player? Remember how she yanked housewife Kim's blond wig and called her white trash outside of a fashionable Atlanta restaurant? (Kim, the sole Caucasian Atlanta ''housewife'' whose married lover's checks allow her to pay $3,000 on a regular basis to get the fat rolled from her thighs.)Across the reality-television spectrum, there have always been women like Sheree and her ''friends'' on Bravo TV's 'Real Housewives of Atlanta': catty, materialistic, self-absorbed. But are television executives really only interested in black women when we're acting a fool? And, more importantly, are we really only interested in seeing ourselves portrayed in this light?
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By: wilsontheman223 on 5/24/2010 2:06PM
Their there own worst enemies
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By: Vickiss on 5/24/2010 3:13PM
Has reality become black people's enemy in general? Is that why it's so difficult to face it?
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By: ooozzzzz on 5/24/2010 3:25PM
Don't hate the game, hate the player.
In this situation, the situation is reversed.
It's not the reality show, it's the women who purposely audition & partcipitate in all these reality shows who think that their independent way of living and fleeting fame is actually responsible and serves a benefit for the viewing audience...especially to Black youth....and the fact that fame and dollars (no matter how they get it) will elevate them to Hollywood fame status (the unknowns like "Housewives") and the knowns to continued revelance (like Chili, Brandi & Ray-J) who no longer have a viable rap/hip hop, TV or movie career; no other bankable skills and needs to (1) stay revelant and (2) pay the rent/house note/bills and put food on the table.
These folks now live a T-bone steak lifestyle with bologna money.
It seems that rap/hip hop has flipped the script on many artists who put that music genre on the map who now are older, have real life responsibilities and because of their limitations and changes in the music game, they have no prospects; their careers have either stopped or stalled and reality shows gives them an additional 15 minutes of face time and fan sympathy.
Plus rap/hip hop is no longer making the money like it used to, the CD sales aren't there anymore, the fans are continuning to lose interest, the money has dried up, the checks are coming to the mailbox any more, all the lavish spending and bad business decisions made in the past to maintain the lifestyle has left them either heavy in debt or broke and for Chili and many others, this pays the bills for minute but once it's over, it's over
Go out & find a job.
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By: carla ford on 5/25/2010 10:51AM
@ooozzzz
Well put & on point!
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By: Deanna Jameson on 5/24/2010 5:12PM
Yes, reality TV portrays us in the worst way, starting with Omarosa. But who's really to blame here? Are networks forcing us to consume this stupidity by not giving us any balance? Or is it our fault because we continue to watch? *shrugs shoulders*
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By: sandra on 6/03/2010 2:42AM
Omarossa isn't far back enough. Go ALL the way back to the second season of 'Real World' on MTV. There was a sistah on the show named Tami. She was loud and clashed with the lone black guy on the show over some 'ish' SHE started, and allowed a white chick to egg her on and compare an incident she had with him to rape. From what I could remember, she was covered up in a bed sheet and they were playing around and he was trying to pull it off of her. There was also a female sheriff's deputy on the show and she acutally made him 'leave' or be arrested. Prior to his leaving, she was all up in the brothas face threatening him, and the more the white chick egged her on, the louder she became, complete with neck rocking and all. Sistah girl Tami later claimed that the incident with the brotha brought her and the white chick closer in their relationship. On a reunion show of various casts from the series, the incident was brought up, and Ms. Tami 'claimed' that after viewing said incident on tape, she could see how she blew things out of proportion. Author Kevin Powell (season one of the series) just looked at her and shook his head as if to say 'yeah right.'
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By: TG on 5/24/2010 9:25PM
Most of the Reality TV shows make everybody look bad not just black women.So get off this black woman bashing and check yourself how are you living your life off camera.
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By: dee on 5/24/2010 11:52PM
It's reality TV period. If their is no drama, no one watches it. White women and men are also full of drama an catty fighting. The first reality TV to get much publicity was the Jerry Springer show. Watching poor white trash, uppity whites, snooty blacks and the fights was what made the show number one. If everyone was nice and getting alone, no one would watch, or be blogging about the shows. Just like Professional wrestling, it is all stage for show. Do you really think, that is the way they live their daily lives. The fools and idiots or the ones that take the shows for real. It's for entertainment purposes only people. That is also why soap operas are still on TV. Drama, and mor Drama.
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By: Paul K on 5/25/2010 12:25AM
It's called the "Omarosa" syndrome. These types of black women are only hired to be on reality shows because it's hoped they'll start some kind of drama. The media has pretty much told America and the world that black women are volatile, defensive and outspoken. They would never hire a laid-back introverted or friendly type of black woman who gets along with everybody.
Reality shows are like this in general especially shows like Survivor and Big Brother where they hire extroverted and outspoken people to interact and hopefully fight or gang up on each other. But it's become an ugly stereotype that even on innocent reality shows, they purposely add aggressive and loud-mouth sistas in hopes of pushing up ratings because they know the audience likes to have someone to hate and it's easy for them to hate our black women.
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By: HobDragonDotCom on 5/25/2010 1:40AM
Celebrity black women have become black women's worse enemy, selling out at the drop of a dime with these shows that are missing the "Minstrel" in their titles.
http://halloftheblackdragon.com/reel/1072/solutions-for-the-single-black-female.html
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