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The Black Culture Thread |OT X| Thread's Up, Don't Lurk
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Angelus Errare
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I've learned that making fun of people with anime avatars is quick way to take a Neogaf break.
They are turning the ain't shit UP tonight. I LIVEEEE
There needs to be a word for what they doing.
Storm Chamber
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See...now I have to watch the rest
Writers have to wear lead suits to handle the scripts
Empire is what BCT would be like if it was a TV show
That sounds terrifying.
User 73706
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BCTV
Minus anime, comic books, video games, and horses.
Angelus Errare
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Juggernaut to IronMan: Just because you have a heart defect and a few toys doesn't make you're a superhero
#dead
#dead
FeenixRising
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we're well past 10000 posts, so it's time to post the halftime BCT standings, where in the upper echelon of the crab bucket do you stand?
Alligatorjandro
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Empire is damaging for black people
that guy is really good, wish i could draw like that.
Angelus Errare
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Like most American shows revolving around black people. But people just eat up all shows that are about black fuckery. Make a show about some wholesome nuclear black family and that shit rarely lasts past the first season.
But isn't that Blackish?
Wasn't that The Cosby Show?
Wasn't that pretty much all of The CW's lineup prior to 2010?
Alligatorjandro
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Blackish is funny. I watched the episode when the dad was trying to talk to his son about sex.
Angelus Errare
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The fact you had to dig into the crates and bring up Cosby Show speaks volumes. CW shows before 2010? UPN was circa 2000 bruh. Blackish won't last past season 2. Last show I can remember was My Wife & Kids and Girlfriends if you want to count that (2005 right?)....
Prototype Viktor
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Spin mag looking for JC and Count hanging out with the Samoans like they are wearing Sweatshirts
All I remember from CW was Dawson, some Tree Hills, some Gilbert Girls, and a ton of ole fuckboi shit I wouldn't be caught dead watching, and that had to be before 2010 because I stopped paying attention to television wayyyy before that.
Didn't CW used to be where Moeisha and Homeboys from OuterSpace lived? UPN.
Didn't CW used to be where Moeisha and Homeboys from OuterSpace lived? UPN.
Well, to be fair, wholesome family shows aren't in vogue right now, period. All of it has some component of fuckery to it.
I mean, on some level I DO get what you're saying, but to me it's like playing black respectability politics with TV. Do I want to see a wider range of shows featuring black talent on TV? Of course (and to be fair, black women specifically are doing it REAL BIG on network TV right now). But, at the same time, I won't apologize for liking black comedy/fuckery. Especially when Empire is so clearly a black show, and not a white person's idea of what a black show is.
doesn't matter. someone will always be watching and will always be misunderstanding and will stay leaving with the wrong idea and taking that shit out with them into the world. I mean, we can't do much about it, but we need to be aware that it's going to happen.
And I mean, this is exactly what I'm talking about with that respectability shit. This is exactly the type of crap that gets said about rap music, black guys in hoodies, and pretty much black culture in general.
At some point, you just have to stop giving a fuck and do you.
Young Magus
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Would the Berine Mac Show count?
Jest Chillin
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Most of what you listed was when CW was The WB. It also had The Steve Harvey Show, The Wayans Bros, The Parent Hood, Sister Sister (saved it from cancellation by ABC), The Jamie Foxx Show, All About The Andersons, Smart Guy, and maybe some others that I'm missing.
Everybody remembers UPN for having Black sitcoms but The WB did it first. They eventually tapered off though as the shows you mentioned came around and did better ratings.
Face it Tiger..
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Watching Empire & Agents of SHIELD really made me think: Where is has subtlety gone? it's one ham-fisted show after another. Then I watch Power and that new show the Affair... and I realized that it just relocated to pay-for television.
Angelus Errare
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Correction, black wholesome family shows aren't in vogue right now.
I have no issues with black fuckery but I hate how right now the ratio of black fuckery to black wholesomeness is like 10 fuckeries for every one wholesome. We get one wholesome show every 3-4 years. Fuckery though? It feels like we get a new black fuckery show every season.
J10 you will just have to keep searching for that hook because you ain't fount it yet.
I'm not worried about respect and I never said anyone should self-censor or dampen their own self expression. But Empire is not me. I do me and I don't worry about what other people think. But there is a resonance. I mean aliens on Mars know how aint shit the black race is, and where does it come from? Instead of dancing like the world isn't watching remember that you haven't left the Earth yet. Rap music, black people in hoodies black culture in general, you can actually find things to criticize, and do it aptly, so long as you're not doing it from a standpoint of complete ignorance. But the ones who only know of black people from what they see on tv? They will start off ignorant and most of them will stay that way. I'm saying just being aware of that perception gap would change things. Do your thing, but don't even pretend like you can do it in a vacuum.
maybe. maybe not.
Jest Chillin
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Broadcast viewers don't want subtlety. They finish their days at school/work/whatever and want to sit down and just veg out.
What wholesome family comedies are out right now that on some level don't rely on fuckery? Because I can't think of any...
Boombloxer
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Brb, going to to buy.
Taskmaster to Beta Ray Bill does a
'Thor is that you? Don't tell me I beat you up THAT bad'
Jest Chillin
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I honestly can't think of more than one or two "wholesome" family shows on Broadcast right now. Tim Allen's show might be (haven't seen a single episode of it) and I guess you could technically call Modern Family wholesome even though it's nothing like the wholesome on TV during the TGIF days.
that female squirting thread. I was fanning the flames, playing the drama, etc.
(still don't think it's pee but don't care either)
Face it Tiger..
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Angelus Errare
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Marry Me (and that show that preceded this with that dancing penny.gif)
Modern Family (Phil is hilarious)
The Goldbergs
A to Z
Happyland
The McCarthys
Marry Me and Modern Family are amazing.
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