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Why don’t blacks create products that appeal to a larger audience?

I mean, I watched “About Last Night” and it was largely targe targeted at the black segment, definitely not whites.

It’s overtones and intramural type jokes made the movie uninteresting. Only reason I watched was because Paula Patton was in it.

I would hit that and ask Laz to tag in.

Blacks don’t care about appealing to the larger audience.

Except for Denzel, Halle Barry, Terry Crews they largely ignore everyone else and there fine with it.

To wit: Kevin Hart when interviewed by “The Hollywood Reporter” summed it thusly:

“He doesn’t dwell on prejudice, or wonder if he might have had more opportunity if he were white. “That’s not for me to say, because I’m not white,” he says.

He agrees with his mentor, Top Five co-star Rock, who lambasted the industry’s insistence that African-American performers “cross over” and find a white audience in a recent essay for THR. Hart insists he doesn’t get hung up on such things. (Said Rock: “If we’re going to just be honest and count dollars and seats and not look at skin color, Kevin Hart is the biggest comedian in the world. If Kevin Hart is playing 40,000 seats in a night and Jon Stewart is playing 3,000, the fact that Jon Stewart’s 3,000 are white means Kevin has to cross over? That makes no sense.”)

“The point he was making was very valid,” says Hart. “It’s always about us crossing over. You never hear about it going the other way. You look at concerts and the touring industry, and the people who buy those tickets are urban crowds. It’s crazy the numbers I’ve done on tour: You’re talking about a guy who does 40,000 to 50,000 people a weekend. What he said, I agree with 110 percent.”

Still, he continues: “I don’t feed into the race game. I don’t give it that much thought. I never have and never will.”

So, they have a very thin slice of the American film goer they appeal to and that goes for rap and comedy as well.

They play to their “Always a Home Run” demographic, which has some appreciation for coarse and base humor.

I don’t find it interesting but, I’m not that demo.

Now, why don’t we hear them sniveling that there aren’t enough blacks in sports?

Is it because they own the fields? I can’t think of any white players currently playing that are extraordinary standouts.

And last years Heisman nominees was dominated by blacks, save for one white kid and I don’t know that he should have been nominated.

Face it A-holes “You made it off the plantation”.

Now get to work and make something of yourselves, your families and itty bitty culture.

Get back to me when you stop speaking in tongues, Ebonics and a Ghetto Slang.

I can’t understand what the hell you are saying...