Posted on 06/30/2005 6:53:00 AM PDT by Tatze
ABC Pulls 'Neighborhood' Reality Series
By LYNN ELBER The Associated Press Wednesday, June 29, 2005; 9:40 PM
LOS ANGELES -- "Welcome to the Neighborhood," an ABC reality series that pushes hot buttons of racism and anti-homosexuality, was pulled by the network before its debut.
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In a statement Wednesday, ABC acknowledged the delicate nature of the series in which families asked to pick a new neighbor are made to expose and overcome their biases.
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The six-episode show, which was to debut July 10, follows three families in Austin, Texas, who are given the chance to choose a new neighbor for a house on their street.
Each family initially wants someone similar to them _ white and conservative.
Instead, they must choose from families that are black, Hispanic and Asian; two gay white men who've adopted a black child; a couple covered in tattoos and piercings; a couple who met at the woman's initiation as a witch; and a poor white family.
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Typical conservative bashing from ABC.
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Consider their thought processes. The prime choices are white, middle class, healthy marriage family with children.
These are the people who need an attitude adjustment. Not the homosexuals. Not the black family. Not the Hispanic family. Not the poor white family.
All the above are apparently well adjusted, non-judgemental, achievers who are pillars of the community.
Why not choose one of these groups to pick a neighbor...say in San Francisco, New York City's Upper East Side, or South Chicago...mebbe Brookline in Boston...
Maybe we could start a television series on how ABC/ OLD MEDIA needs to pick conservatives as anchors to "expose and overcome their biases".
When we bought our home we bought it because we liked it and our neighbors. It's really none of ABC's damn business why I live where I live and associate with who I associate with. Most people have biases and want to be around people like themselves. DUH!
So the premise of the show was conservatives picking which socialist family gets a FREE home? Sheeesh, perhaps they're re-working it to involve the Souter decision and how some Indian Tribe will confiscate the big homes of the White people to build casinos.
Archie Bunker decades ago. No news here. It's SOP and has been for as long as I can remember.
Can you just imagine the uproar from the self-proclaimed leaders of the black community if this were shown on TV.
How about visiting high school cafeterias or college dorms, and observing whom those young people, indoctrinated to be diverse, inclusive, tolerant and multicultural, choose to associate with.
With their own kind.
But then, natural law is never accepted by liberals or children. At least not until it hurts enough.
Interesting that an upper class Chinese or Indian family weren't part of the mix.
At my college, the blacks literally sit by themselves in one corner of the cafeteria....together. Maybe one will sit elsewhere with a "white table."
It isn't that we are racist. It is that people tend to assocciate with peole they are like.
Much like the different majors tend to sit together or like cliques sit together in HS, we tend to form by race.
Now, the one thing that sometimes gives more diversity is when the athletes sit together as athletes. It is much more diverse then....whites and blacks together. But, that does not happen all the time.
Maybe we can figure out a way to put some of these people as neighbors for these ABC producers. Oh, and film them getting all happy about it to boot.
Not only "right-bashing", but race-baiting as well. I would have thought better of ABC, even though they are a liberal haven.
ABC is run by libs who hate conservatives and people of faith. This show was all about demonizing the values that made this country strong. Tolerance for liberals means to accept all that is evil and perverted whild discriminating against all that it is good and right.
How about a flaming couple in SanFrancisco having to choose between a Traditional Roman Catholic family, an Evangelical family, an Orthodox Jew, a Mormon, and a poor liberal?
How about putting a true Christian family (of any ethnicity) next door to ABC producers?
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