From The Crisis: ‘Click through the television channels, and — still — very little Black and Brown and good is going on after all the study, protest and time wasted in front of the screen. As viewers, we allow ourselves to be force-fed like fat-livered ducks, headed for a slaughtering of our collective narrative and the image we project around the world. We digest, like so many empty calories, the faux-realities of Frankie & Neffe, Flavor of Love and The Real Housewives of Atlanta. And to make it worse, somebody is green-lighting this stuff. To make that even worse, African American viewers who know better actually watch—justifying it as akin to gaping at a car crash — and talk about what they saw, casting these tales of the triflin’, stupid and greedy into the universe, where they threaten to infect us all.”
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