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‘Empire’ Under Fire: Black Scholar on CNN Calls Show ‘Ghettofied’ ‘Coonery’
http://www.thewrap.com/empire-under-fire-black-scholar-calls-show-ghettofied-coonery/ ^ | March 18, 2015 | Debbie Emery, Anita Bennett

Posted on 03/19/2015 12:57:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey

Black actors and actresses are tired of being put in the entertainment ghetto,” Dr. Boyce D. Watkins tells host Don Lemon While viewers were burning up social media about the explosive “Empire” season finale that aired Wednesday night on Fox, a heated debate was happening over on Don Lemon’s “CNN Tonight.” After showing a clip of the knock-down, drag-out, drink-throwing, weave-pulling catfight between Cookie and Anika, the conversation turned to whether the Fox hip-hop drama negatively portrays African-American culture.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: slime; thugculture
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1 posted on 03/19/2015 12:57:57 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
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To: MeshugeMikey

I wonder what the viewer demographic stats look like.


2 posted on 03/19/2015 1:00:13 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Id guess that there are scant “regular” veiwers


3 posted on 03/19/2015 1:02:19 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Fox is particularly awful. It appears their goal is to coarsen and debauch anything they touch.


4 posted on 03/19/2015 1:02:37 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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To: MeshugeMikey

I hate the commercials for the show, so I know I wouldn’t watch it. However from the comercials, it totally looks like black stereotypes from start to finish.


5 posted on 03/19/2015 1:02:45 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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To: MeshugeMikey

More ‘Made for the Masses’ BS!

Unwatchable.


6 posted on 03/19/2015 1:04:05 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: vpintheak

Ive seen neither the ads... nor the show...but I don’t doubt its trashiness given the few details Ive read


7 posted on 03/19/2015 1:04:36 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

What’s an “African-American?” Many of these people don’t have any connection to the natives of Africa. Hell, many don’t know the FIRST THING about Africa. Would a white South African coming to America be known as an “African-American” too?


8 posted on 03/19/2015 1:04:58 PM PDT by EnigmaticAnomaly ("With the demonrats in charge, we find ourselves living in an ineptocracy.")
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To: SMARTY

“the people’s tv ghetto”


9 posted on 03/19/2015 1:05:23 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey
hether the Fox hip-hop drama negatively portrays African-American culture.

I watched two episodes.

It is certainly a negative portrayal.

The question, really, is whether or not it is accurate.

10 posted on 03/19/2015 1:05:48 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: MeshugeMikey

I think it was Eric Bolling who said Empire is the first show since 1991 to increase viewership in each subsequent episode


11 posted on 03/19/2015 1:06:10 PM PDT by be-baw (still seeking)
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To: MeshugeMikey

This is ‘I am gonna slap yo bitch ass because I am from the hood,’” Watkins insisted.
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I teach in a predominantly Black High School (85% Black, 14% Latino and 1% White and Asian.) and I must say that the above statement is 100% correct. That IS most of this generation of Black America. It’s been “ghetto” for a long time. Now, it is gangsta/thug-ghetto. Fo sho bro.


12 posted on 03/19/2015 1:06:29 PM PDT by Din Maker (Anyone considering Gov. Susana Martinez of NM for Prez in 2016?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

Id guess that there are scant “regular” veiwers

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Though I am not among them, you would be incorrect. For the last 3 weeks, it has been the most watched show in the 18-49 age bracket.


13 posted on 03/19/2015 1:07:05 PM PDT by dmz
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To: brownsfan

How can you coarsen and debauch hip hop?


14 posted on 03/19/2015 1:07:07 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
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To: MeshugeMikey
After showing a clip of the knock-down, drag-out, drink-throwing, weave-pulling catfight between Cookie and Anika...

You mean sorta like the viral videos we see week in & week out of Black Beastie Girls brawling it out.

15 posted on 03/19/2015 1:07:31 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly

the whole “African-American” fiasco is just that a FIASCO.

I have known precisely ONE actual African American....Originally.from Nigeria. He didnt refer to himself as an African-American

the headline reads in part....”Black Scholar on CNN “

so whats wrong with that “designation”???


16 posted on 03/19/2015 1:08:23 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: EnigmaticAnomaly
Many of these people don’t have any connection to the natives of Africa.

You mean the African-American Africans?...................

17 posted on 03/19/2015 1:08:45 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: TexasCajun

yo yo rite awn...evidently!


18 posted on 03/19/2015 1:08:52 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey
Black Scholar

Racist!

19 posted on 03/19/2015 1:08:57 PM PDT by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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To: SWAMPSNIPER

“How can you coarsen and debauch hip hop?”

If there is a way, Fox will find it.


20 posted on 03/19/2015 1:09:24 PM PDT by brownsfan (Behold, the power of government cheese.)
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