July 14, 2007 at 4:55 am (African American, African American Images, BET, Parenting, Teenagers)
BET is preparing to air what can only be described as a minstrel show depicting African-Americans in the poorest possible way. Apparently they are competing with VH1 to try and one-up the Flavor of Love programs. According to the blogoshere, BET was actively soliciting images and information of most unbecoming nature to depict on this show – some of which show disturbing images of children.
Home Depot and State Farm Insurance beat a hasty retreat from “Hot Ghetto Mess” following a growing din of complaints, mostly on the Internet, that the show – a collection of home videos and images sent in by viewers – depicts African Americans in the worst light possible.
The show evolved from an Internet site of the same name, which features photos of African Americans in various “ghetto” styles, including hair, clothing and jewelry.
At least one gallery of photos on the site shows toddlers and infants photographed holding bottles of beer or with cigars in their mouths. – New York Post
Hopefully BET will come to it’s senses and pull the plug on this nonsense.
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July 12, 2007 at 3:33 pm (African American, Parenting, Teenagers)
It has occurred to me in the past few months that my children’s (18 & 23) preferred style of communication is text messaging. I often wonder why they choose this “radio talkie” mode of communication to the traditional phone conversation. I then came to the following conclusion of why they prefer text messaging – they really don’t want to have a true dialog with us but they want to stay in touch with us old folks. It’s infuriating to me (although I love them) when they text message me when they could have just as easily dialed my number for an old fashion conversation. Don’t they know how difficult it is for us to type on those silly little type pads that are on our phones……or is that the point….we can’t say too much to them using their mode of communication.
Oh well, I guess with technology us older ones will just have to learn to maximize the use of technology as they have.
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