Comments on: “Why should people of color have to be humiliated…?”

By: Props

Props — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:46:06 +0000

Well, a lot of factors intersect here and it’s faulty to reduce it simply to race.

For example, in a middle/upper-class Houston suburb where many Katrina evacuees were relocated to - fights have broken out between them and the locals because the evacuees were causing a lot of trouble and the locals were telling on them. Last I heard, the evacuees were suspected of burning a house down in retaliation…

Anyways, people invest their entire life’s hard work and savings into their homes and so I can understand why they would become extra-picky in protecting its value and safety. When you become a property owner, you start to understand this POV… Which is why even rich Black folks move out of their poor Black hoods and into (often non-Black) wealthy ones - when they get the chance.

By: bobmarley

bobmarley — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 23:01:56 +0000

many whites dislike other race they just want to be politicaly correct about it and don’t say anything they are even rasict to themselves in some ways they glorify blonde hair and blues just like the nazis they belive thats these indivuals are the superior to everyone thats fcked up

By: Sabrina

Sabrina — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:27:07 +0000

Personally, I think the so-called “reality” shows are stupid….even stuff like the Bachelor and Bachelorette, a group of folks competing for the dubious love of a person? How humiliating is that?

then to take the whole concept and apply it to race and lifestyle issues? What a slap in the face!

In the end, there is only one color the Networks are interested in….DOLLAR GREEN. The true reason they pulled this show? It probably didn’t rake in the advertising revenues needed! The networks don’t really care about the ‘truth’ they care about ratings and revenues, plain and simple.

By: lyonside

lyonside — Tue, 05 Jul 2005 14:43:31 +0000

>I agree to some degree that showing how whites decide of “the lesser of two evils” per se, but it is true… why not air it?

But it’s not true, IMO. People buy homes and THEN the neighbors may have a problem. But usually, it seems that the neighbors are responding to real or perceived social or socioeconomic problems, rather than the new neighbors themselves. This kind of show will not highlight the REAL causes of urban blight, decay of the older suburbs, new suburban sprawl, rural and urban economic depression, failing public schools, and the double jeopardy of rising property taxes and falling housing values. This kind of show would, however, blame the newbies.

ABC likely didn’t air it when either they ran it by testing groups in big markets (I’ve been to a few where you rate both the actual show pilot and rate the commercials at the breaks), or they showed it by major advertisers, who didn’t want their product associated with the show.

By: April

April — Sun, 03 Jul 2005 00:06:37 +0000

Reality is reality, and no one can change that. I think it would be good to show white America the truth, whether or not it is offensive or not. I agree to some degree that showing how whites decide of “the lesser of two evils” per se, but it is true… why not air it?

By: Renu

Renu — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 14:47:17 +0000

I think the fact that the minority families had to compete for the social acceptance of their white neighbors is what turned my stomach the most. I didn’t see this show going down the road of exploring tolerance, rather, showing a bunch of gentrists trying to pick the lesser of the evils presented to them (hmmm, is a pagan or gay family worse than a family of colour? whatever should we do??). Blech. Shame on ABC.