The Most Racist Thing Today
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@lufins-dad said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
re A) Be an athlete B) Be a singer/rapper C) Be a thug D) Be a wisecracking
I think it is a mistake to give any credit to those stereotypes.
I know Democrats can’t get past them, but it is time to let them go
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@lufins-dad said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
@mik said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
@lufins-dad said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
Meh, I actually get it. While I completely support giving the job to the best available candidate, it’s a bonus when the best candidate is black. I think it would be a good thing for young African American children to see a well educated African American hosting a fairly sophisticated game show where the contestants and host demonstrate high levels of intelligence and education.
The African American community in general belittle and brutalizes the education system, it would be good for these kids to see an alternative.
I work every year to help bring artists like Awadagin Pratt to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. I do think it’s important for these kids to see African Americans succeeding in careers that there community often belittles.
Look, you cannot turn on the TV today without seeing a disproportionate number of black faces hosting TV shows, award shows, what have you. That train has already left the station. It will never, ever be enough to counter the 'acting white' cultural bias.
I get that, but there is a world of difference between seeing Steve Harvey hosting the trash that is on Family Feud and seeing Burton hosting Jeopardy. Black kids are beaten over the head with the idea that their choices are A) Be an athlete B) Be a singer/rapper C) Be a thug D) Be a wisecracking comedian E) Some combination of the above. Their only other cultural role models are insane activists like Jackson. They can and should see that there is a path forward. One of the guys working for me is a young black kid that is a hell of a classical pianist. When he was a teenager he thought he had to learn jazz to be successful and he didn't really like it. Then his teacher showed him a video of Andre Watts. It makes a difference.
If you have two equally good candidates for the roll of Jeopardy host, I say you go with the one that can have a subtle positive impact as well...
I could not possibly disagree more.
The kind of exposure you're talking about is a real thing. But seeing someone host Jeopardy is going to do nothing for them. Absolutely nothing.
There were a handful of things I got into very late in life. I didn't start practicing guitar until I was about 30, but I've always wanted to do it. But not a single family member of mine plays an instrument. None of my close friends did, either. So playing guitar wasn't real to me, it wasn't an actual possibility. That was for other people. That implication was so embedded in me that I didn't even know I felt that way, let alone that I didn't have to.
I didn't feel that way about bikes, because I had an older cousin who (1) worked in a bike shop, (2) I liked hanging out with him and (3) he didn't mind my hanging around the shop when he was working. He'd even take me behind the counter and show me how he was doing tune-ups. He made it real to me, it was a possibility.
Screw Jeopardy. I saw assloads of live music shows growing up as a kid because my parents were 80s parents and they didn't get a babysitter. It did nothing to inspire me to try anything like that myself. You need someone you know to come in and make it real for you, not someone on TV.
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Replacing the lead for anything is always a risk. The decision makers need to pick their best guess as to who will help the show continue to thrive. If they get it wrong the audience will scatter and bye bye revenue. I don’t think the woke can force me to watch it riight????
That said a person of color or of any gender might be the right stuff.
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Honestly, I can't think of a better person to host the show than Levar Burton. It fits his personality, it fits his charisma, it fits everything he's known for.
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It could also turn out that Alex Trebek was the engine, and nobody else, black or white, will be able to make it work.
Not that that should stop them from trying. It became a thing for writers to write books that pretended to be written by dead authors. Disgusting development.
And Bond, Batman, etc. Maybe a more interesting thing to think about is what this trend signifies.
I have no insights.
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@aqua-letifer said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
, it fits everything he's known for.
“ Toby be a good nigga for massa”
I know it doesn’t sound nice, but I think that is what Levar Burton is known for in my generation
It was heavy stuff at the time
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@lufins-dad said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
@mik said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
@lufins-dad said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
Meh, I actually get it. While I completely support giving the job to the best available candidate, it’s a bonus when the best candidate is black. I think it would be a good thing for young African American children to see a well educated African American hosting a fairly sophisticated game show where the contestants and host demonstrate high levels of intelligence and education.
The African American community in general belittle and brutalizes the education system, it would be good for these kids to see an alternative.
I work every year to help bring artists like Awadagin Pratt to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. I do think it’s important for these kids to see African Americans succeeding in careers that there community often belittles.
Look, you cannot turn on the TV today without seeing a disproportionate number of black faces hosting TV shows, award shows, what have you. That train has already left the station. It will never, ever be enough to counter the 'acting white' cultural bias.
I get that, but there is a world of difference between seeing Steve Harvey hosting the trash that is on Family Feud and seeing Burton hosting Jeopardy. Black kids are beaten over the head with the idea that their choices are A) Be an athlete B) Be a singer/rapper C) Be a thug D) Be a wisecracking comedian E) Some combination of the above. Their only other cultural role models are insane activists like Jackson. They can and should see that there is a path forward. One of the guys working for me is a young black kid that is a hell of a classical pianist. When he was a teenager he thought he had to learn jazz to be successful and he didn't really like it. Then his teacher showed him a video of Andre Watts. It makes a difference.
If you have two equally good candidates for the roll of Jeopardy host, I say you go with the one that can have a subtle positive impact as well...
Black people have lots of role models they could be emulating, but as a group they seem to prefer to emulate the lowest common denominator among them. Again, taken as a group, when a good role model does dare to speak up, he's called an Uncle Tom and accused of "trying to act white". The truth is, the most racist group of people you'll find is black people at large.
They should view Thomas Sowell as a national treasure. They ignore him. Denzell Washington -He's "acting white". Morgan Freeman, who when asked an extremely leading question by Don Lemon who was trying his best to get Freeman to promote the typical black racist narrative, said "you want to end racism? Stop talking about it".
The list of excellent black role models is endless. They CHOOSE to follow race baiters and the other trash they hero worship.
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@larry said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
@lufins-dad said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
@mik said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
@lufins-dad said in The Most Racist Thing Today:
Meh, I actually get it. While I completely support giving the job to the best available candidate, it’s a bonus when the best candidate is black. I think it would be a good thing for young African American children to see a well educated African American hosting a fairly sophisticated game show where the contestants and host demonstrate high levels of intelligence and education.
The African American community in general belittle and brutalizes the education system, it would be good for these kids to see an alternative.
I work every year to help bring artists like Awadagin Pratt to the Duke Ellington School of the Arts. I do think it’s important for these kids to see African Americans succeeding in careers that there community often belittles.
Look, you cannot turn on the TV today without seeing a disproportionate number of black faces hosting TV shows, award shows, what have you. That train has already left the station. It will never, ever be enough to counter the 'acting white' cultural bias.
I get that, but there is a world of difference between seeing Steve Harvey hosting the trash that is on Family Feud and seeing Burton hosting Jeopardy. Black kids are beaten over the head with the idea that their choices are A) Be an athlete B) Be a singer/rapper C) Be a thug D) Be a wisecracking comedian E) Some combination of the above. Their only other cultural role models are insane activists like Jackson. They can and should see that there is a path forward. One of the guys working for me is a young black kid that is a hell of a classical pianist. When he was a teenager he thought he had to learn jazz to be successful and he didn't really like it. Then his teacher showed him a video of Andre Watts. It makes a difference.
If you have two equally good candidates for the roll of Jeopardy host, I say you go with the one that can have a subtle positive impact as well...
Black people have lots of role models they could be emulating, but as a group they seem to prefer to emulate the lowest common denominator among them. Again, taken as a group, when a good role model does dare to speak up, he's called an Uncle Tom and accused of "trying to act white". The truth is, the most racist group of people you'll find is black people at large.
They should view Thomas Sowell as a national treasure. They ignore him. Denzell Washington -He's "acting white". Morgan Freeman, who when asked an extremely leading question by Don Lemon who was trying his best to get Freeman to promote the typical black racist narrative, said "you want to end racism? Stop talking about it".
The list of excellent black role models is endless. They CHOOSE to follow race baiters and the other trash they hero worship.
Good post, Larry. But rather than "choosing" to follow the bad examples, I'd say they are taught to follow those examples by the culture they're raised in. The left considers race to underpin all of American politics. They try to teach the racism narrative to as many impressionable young minds as possible, black and white, which of course fuels the machine. If people go into their lives with preconceived notions of what they'll see, they'll find it. In fact, they'll create it. And the left will have that perpetual well of anecdote to go to as they propagate their messaging which continues to earn them votes while psychologically damaging generations of black people.
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" Everybody has asked the question, and they learned to ask it early of the abolitionists, “What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are worm eaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone! If you see him on his way to school, let him alone, don’t disturb him! If you see him going to the dinner table at a hotel, let him go! If you see him going to the ballot- box, let him alone, don’t disturb him! [Applause.] If you see him going into a work-shop, just let him alone,—your interference is doing him a positive injury. Gen. Banks’ “preparation” is of a piece with this attempt to prop up the Negro. Let him fall if he cannot stand alone! If the Negro cannot live by the line of eternal justice, so beautifully pictured to you in the illustration used by Mr. Phillips, the fault will not be yours, it will be his who made the Negro, and established that line for his government. [Applause.] Let him live or die by that. If you will only untie his hands, and give him a chance, I think he will live. He will work as readily for himself as the white man. " - Frederick Douglas
